Acoustic Blues With Slide

In this lesson we're looking at a slide guitar piece. For this piece we're tuning to Open G tuning - playing in an open tuning makes slide guitar much easier, as you can only really play one fret at a time with a slide.

Lesson Aims

• Make sure you place your slide over the actual fret you want to play - if you go between frets you will be out of tune!
• Practice your vibrato - quickly move in front of and behind the fret you're aiming for, but resolve over the fret
• Learn the example piece

Open G Tuning

For Open G tuning we tune to D, B, G, D, G and D, from high to low. If you play all the open strings this makes a G chord, so barring any fret (either with a slide or with your finger) also makes the major chord of whichever note is on the 6th string at that fret.

Exercise 11 - Open G Slide Blues