Chords for OG Beginner Guitar Lessons - how to use a blues Slide
Tempo:
110.875 bpm
Chords used:
F
A
F#m
Dm
G
Tuning:Standard Tuning (EADGBE)Capo:+0fret
Start Jamming...
All right guys, this is an absolute beginner video to slide guitar.
There's a lot of different slides on the market.
Obviously I went with the glass one because glass obviously doesn't rust.
And the metal one I had before this one rusted out, which is kind of gross.
So what you want to do is there's also a lot of different methods for playing slide guitar.
The one we're going to look at today is putting the slide on our third finger.
A lot of guys like to put it on their pinky, but this slide fits me better on the third finger.
My guitar is in an open D tuning, so I can get a lot of really blissful sounds.
So generally the most important thing when it comes to using slide guitar is don't push
down too hard.
You want to actually choose a guitar that has higher action, because if you try to play
slide on a real low action guitar, it's going to be very difficult.
You're going to be running into frets left and right, which generally doesn't sound good.
So you want a higher action guitar so you don't have to push down that hard and you're
not bumping into the frets and you get a nice slide type of sound.
The other trick that's really, really important is to use our first and second finger to mute
out all the strings.
If we just have the slide going, you hear all those sounds, you hear the buzz and [F#m] there's
a couple other pitches going on with that.
[F] This doesn't sound very clean.
But if I mute the strings with my first and second finger, hear how much cleaner that is?
So when you do this, you want to keep the strings muted with your first and second finger,
and generally finger picking with your right hand is more desired.
[A]
[Dm] So you can kind of switch between using your first and second finger [A] and
[G] [D] [F]
the slide.
You get [N] some great sounds like the beginning of the Looney Tunes cartoons.
That's beginner slide guitar.
Thanks for watching.
There's a lot of different slides on the market.
Obviously I went with the glass one because glass obviously doesn't rust.
And the metal one I had before this one rusted out, which is kind of gross.
So what you want to do is there's also a lot of different methods for playing slide guitar.
The one we're going to look at today is putting the slide on our third finger.
A lot of guys like to put it on their pinky, but this slide fits me better on the third finger.
My guitar is in an open D tuning, so I can get a lot of really blissful sounds.
So generally the most important thing when it comes to using slide guitar is don't push
down too hard.
You want to actually choose a guitar that has higher action, because if you try to play
slide on a real low action guitar, it's going to be very difficult.
You're going to be running into frets left and right, which generally doesn't sound good.
So you want a higher action guitar so you don't have to push down that hard and you're
not bumping into the frets and you get a nice slide type of sound.
The other trick that's really, really important is to use our first and second finger to mute
out all the strings.
If we just have the slide going, you hear all those sounds, you hear the buzz and [F#m] there's
a couple other pitches going on with that.
[F] This doesn't sound very clean.
But if I mute the strings with my first and second finger, hear how much cleaner that is?
So when you do this, you want to keep the strings muted with your first and second finger,
and generally finger picking with your right hand is more desired.
[A]
[Dm] So you can kind of switch between using your first and second finger [A] and
[G] [D] [F]
the slide.
You get [N] some great sounds like the beginning of the Looney Tunes cartoons.
That's beginner slide guitar.
Thanks for watching.
Key:
F
A
F#m
Dm
G
F
A
F#m
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ All right guys, this is an absolute beginner video to slide guitar.
There's a lot of different slides on the market.
Obviously I went with the glass one because glass obviously doesn't rust.
And the metal one I had before this one rusted out, which is kind of gross.
So what you want to do is there's also a lot of different methods for playing slide guitar.
The one we're going to look at today is putting the slide on our third finger.
A lot of guys like to put it on their pinky, but this slide fits me better on the third finger.
My guitar is in an open D tuning, so I can get a lot of really blissful sounds.
So generally the most important thing when it comes to using slide guitar is don't push
down too hard.
You want to actually choose a guitar that has higher action, because if you try to play
slide on a real low action guitar, it's going to be very difficult.
You're going to be running into frets left and right, which generally doesn't sound good.
So you want a higher action guitar so you don't have to push down that hard and you're
not bumping into the frets and you get a nice _ slide type of sound.
The other trick that's really, really important is to use our first and second finger to mute
out all the strings.
If we just have the slide going, you hear all those sounds, you hear the buzz and [F#m] there's
a couple other pitches going on with that.
[F] This doesn't sound very clean.
But if I mute the strings with my first and second finger, _ hear how much cleaner that is?
So when you do this, you want to keep the strings muted with your first and second finger,
and generally finger picking with your right hand is more desired.
_ _ _ _ [A] _
_ _ _ [Dm] _ So you can kind of switch between using your first and second finger _ [A] and _
_ [G] _ _ [D] _ _ _ [F] _ _
_ the slide.
You get [N] some great sounds like the beginning of the Looney Tunes cartoons. _ _ _ _ _ _
That's beginner slide guitar.
Thanks for watching. _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ All right guys, this is an absolute beginner video to slide guitar.
There's a lot of different slides on the market.
Obviously I went with the glass one because glass obviously doesn't rust.
And the metal one I had before this one rusted out, which is kind of gross.
So what you want to do is there's also a lot of different methods for playing slide guitar.
The one we're going to look at today is putting the slide on our third finger.
A lot of guys like to put it on their pinky, but this slide fits me better on the third finger.
My guitar is in an open D tuning, so I can get a lot of really blissful sounds.
So generally the most important thing when it comes to using slide guitar is don't push
down too hard.
You want to actually choose a guitar that has higher action, because if you try to play
slide on a real low action guitar, it's going to be very difficult.
You're going to be running into frets left and right, which generally doesn't sound good.
So you want a higher action guitar so you don't have to push down that hard and you're
not bumping into the frets and you get a nice _ slide type of sound.
The other trick that's really, really important is to use our first and second finger to mute
out all the strings.
If we just have the slide going, you hear all those sounds, you hear the buzz and [F#m] there's
a couple other pitches going on with that.
[F] This doesn't sound very clean.
But if I mute the strings with my first and second finger, _ hear how much cleaner that is?
So when you do this, you want to keep the strings muted with your first and second finger,
and generally finger picking with your right hand is more desired.
_ _ _ _ [A] _
_ _ _ [Dm] _ So you can kind of switch between using your first and second finger _ [A] and _
_ [G] _ _ [D] _ _ _ [F] _ _
_ the slide.
You get [N] some great sounds like the beginning of the Looney Tunes cartoons. _ _ _ _ _ _
That's beginner slide guitar.
Thanks for watching. _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _