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Comb-bound electric slide guitar instruction book and CD.

TAB – STANDARD NOTATION – CD

This superb electric slide book teaches how to play open tuning slide guitar with a blues band and singer. It is the only slide (or bottleneck) guitar instruction book devoted to learning how to play slide behind a blues vocalist.

The term slide guitar refers to a style of playing in which the guitar strings are fretted with a piece of metal, glass or ceramic. Usually, the fretting device is a finger sized cylinder (the slide) that is worn on either the third or fourth finger of the fretting hand. Bottleneck blues guitar players have been known to play bottleneck blues guitar with makeshift items such as knife blades, bones, and spoon handles.

Slide guitar is also known as bottleneck guitar or knife guitar. Slide guitar setup: A guitar used for slide playing is usually tuned to an open chord; the strings are raised at the nut to accommodate the pressure of the slide.

A fill-in is a lead guitar lick played behind a singer. This slide guitar guide teaches 101 authentic slide guitar fill-ins in open E tuning. Songs are presented in a way that makes learning efficient, enjoyable, and pertinent to real music.

For your convenience, all of the songs are performed in open E tuning, allowing you to jam with the entire CD without having to retune. After absorbing the licks, apply them to songs of your own choice.

Songs include standards such as Joe Turner Blues, St. Louis Blues, Sporting Life Blues, House of the Rising Sun, Midnight Special, and several new songs based on standard blues changes.

Supplementary Materials

• Open E Tuning (Diagram)
• The E Minor Pentatonic Scale in Open E (Diagram)
• Tones in the Basic Blues Chords (Diagram)
• Tips for Slide Guitar Players

All this for a low price that is less than the cost of a single private music lesson.

Prerequisite Ability

• Early intermediate and intermediate musicians.

User Profiles

• Serious hobbyist musicians looking for an electric slide guitar book.
• Any guitarist who wants to learn how to play slide guitar.
• Any gigging musician who wants to learn blues slide guitar in more detail.
• Dobro, National Steel, or steel guitar player who desires slide guitar instruction.
• Guitar teachers who teach slide lessons and blues guitar lessons.

Goals and Purposes

• Learn bottleneck guitar licks that can be played in a band.
• Learn basic slide guitar techniques by playing along with a recorded band and singer.
• Improve slide guitar technique.
• Develop more rounded skills as a blues guitarist.
• Study open E tuning.
• Beginning slide guitar book, slide guitar basics for ambitious students.
• Helps an early intermediate understand blues progressions.
• Learn to play tasteful guitar licks behind a singer.

Author-Recommended Supplemental Listening for Slide Guitar Players

The author recommends that guitarists who use this book supplement with listening to as many of the following slide guitar players as possible. Listening to these classic blues slide guitar players will provide unlimited enjoyment and inspiration.

Duane Allman, Dickey Betts, Bob Brozman, Ry Cooder, John Fahey, John Hammond, Earl Hooker, Elmore James, Homesick James, Blind Willie Johnson, Robert Johnson, Son House, J.B. Hutto, Leo Kottke, Taj Mahal, Mississippi Fred McDowell, Robert Nighthawk, Bonnie Raitt, Tampa Red,Tom Rush, Hound Dog Taylor, George Thorogood, Derek Trucks, Muddy Waters, Merle Watson, Bukka White, Johnny Winter.

Amazon Rating: (4.5) (out of 8 reviews)
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101 Razor Sharp Slide Guitar Blues Licks in Open E Tuning

This superb Red Dog Music Book and CD allows you to learn/play slide guitar fill-ins while sitting in with a crisply recorded blues band and singer. The licks are clearly written in standard notation and tablature, and the companion CD contains all 101 licks, which are applicable to countless blues songs. A guide to symbols and several helpful fretboard diagrams are included. The licks are recorded on electric guitar but can also be played on acoustic. Overall, a very fine book that will provide unlimited learning and enjoyment. Many slide guitar books are confusing because they try to cover too many tunings. Everything here is in open E. Songs include standards such as Joe Turner Blues, St. Louis Blues, Sportin Life Blues, House of the Rising Sun, Midnight Special, along with several new songs written to standard blues changes. Like Hound Dog Taylor, J.B. Hutton, and Elmore James? Then you will like this book.

User Ratings and Reviews

5 Stars Good licks for real songs
I am a guitarist who has played in blues and rock bands and I have been working on slide guitar technique. I am very pleased with this book. Everything is here for anyone who wants to learn how to play blues slide guitar licks in the context of a blues band.

The licks are played in actual blues songs that follow standard chord progressions. I have already found ways to work the licks into songs by Muddy Waters, Elmore James, etc. Great book and I recommend it to others.

5 Stars back in print
This author had a similar book out with another publisher, but it is out of print, and quite expensive used. I understand that the author owns this publishing company, so I doubt if it will disappear. Good thing too. I have gone through three copies of the old book. They keep “disappearing”.

I teach people how to play slide, although I’m not at all scary doing it. This book is my secret weapon. It’s simple and all in one tuning, but not too simple. They (the licks) are what musicians call “solid”. By the time you work your way through the book, you hopefully have an ear, and trust me, that’s what slide requires. Then you play with the licks and make them your own. Most people have figured out where to go by the time they finish. I always recommend stealing solos from harmonica players when they get through this book. I’m glad it’s back.

5 Stars Like Sitting in With a Chicago Blues Band

I have been wanting to learn slide guitar for a long time. My teacher suggested this book and it is as helpful as he said it would be. The material is well-organized and includes everything a beginning slide player needs, including diagrams that serve as valuable roadmaps for open E tuning.

The slide licks sound just like the ones played by Elmore James, Hound Dog Taylor, Robert Nighthawk, and others on the classic blues records of the 1950s to mid 1960s. Some of the licks sound like Taj Mahal. The great thing is that a good blues band with a singer is playing model blues songs on the CD, so you are learning licks that you will actually be able to use in the blues songs you play. The singer on this CD is amazing-he sounds like Ray Charles.

I love that the entire book is arranged in the key of E. And the licks are smooth, tasteful, and accessible. The book gave me immediate confidence and familiarity with open E tuning. It is a lot of fun to play along with the CD – I feel like I’m sitting in with a blues band in a smoky bar on the Southside of Chicago. Very highly recommended.

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User Ratings and Reviews

4 Stars Great resource
This is one of many books that I have purchased. However it spends a lot less time on the bookshelf than many of my other books I have purchased for the purpose of learning guitar. I recommend it to guitar players that are just outside of the step of begining yet not quite intermediate.

5 Stars Learn to Play the Guitar
This item was purchased as a gift and was well recieved. It is very thorough and extremely helpful. The order was filled promply.

3 Stars Diagrams are backwards
There are a lot of fretboard diagrams in this book. In contrast to every other book I’ve seen, they are all drawn as though you were looking at the guitarist, i.e., the nut is to the right. This makes them nearly indecipherable.

The book doesn’t cost much, especially if you get it used, and it has some nice tips for the beginner. There’s no depth at all, though, and there’s a lot better information available for free on the web.

4 Stars Great beginner’s resource
In common with many gigging guitarists I keep a copy of Phil Capone’s Guitar Chord Bible permanently in my guitar case, so I was interested to see he had written a new book. In it he takes a step backwards and addresses the guitarist who is learning to play the instrument. Although familiar with all the techniques he describes, I can’t help thinking that I could have saved myself a lot of trouble if I’d had this book twenty years ago. The chord and scale libraries at the back of the book are useful (although Capone’s Chord Bible, mentioned above, is really unbeatable in this regard) and the included CD ensures that the student reader can hear what the material taught in the lessons should sound like when played correctly. All in all, this is a good package, and one I shall recommend to my students.

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Learn to Play the Guitar A Beginners Guide to Accoustic and Electric Guitar

User Ratings and Reviews

3 Stars Diagrams are backwards
There are a lot of fretboard diagrams in this book. In contrast to every other book I’ve seen, they are all drawn as though you were looking at the guitarist, i.e., the nut is to the right. This makes them nearly indecipherable.

The book doesn’t cost much, especially if you get it used, and it has some nice tips for the beginner. There’s no depth at all, though, and there’s a lot better information available for free on the web.

4 Stars Great beginner’s resource
In common with many gigging guitarists I keep a copy of Phil Capone’s Guitar Chord Bible permanently in my guitar case, so I was interested to see he had written a new book. In it he takes a step backwards and addresses the guitarist who is learning to play the instrument. Although familiar with all the techniques he describes, I can’t help thinking that I could have saved myself a lot of trouble if I’d had this book twenty years ago. The chord and scale libraries at the back of the book are useful (although Capone’s Chord Bible, mentioned above, is really unbeatable in this regard) and the included CD ensures that the student reader can hear what the material taught in the lessons should sound like when played correctly. All in all, this is a good package, and one I shall recommend to my students.

5 Stars Learn to Play the Guitar
This item was purchased as a gift and was well recieved. It is very thorough and extremely helpful. The order was filled promply.

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