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Forte
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I'm pretty much a self taught guitarist. I know some blues and some jazz, but not as much I wish I did. So, my question is, are there any good on-line resources for learning those styles? Some slide guitar maybe?
Badger
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Firebird should be along shortly....Slide is kind of his specialty.
Even
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I am all for finding a handy online resource as well. I have gone to a gang of different ones but walked away with nothing more than a heap of sound clips and advise that was mostly "notice the cool way Bubba slides the fifth". Big deal. So far the only thing that has actually helped is my radio. Flip thru stations and just start jamming along with the different styles.
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Forte
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You mean you live in an area with good radio stations? I'm going to go the library and get some CDs, but I'd like some technical info too.Even said:
Also, if I can, I'll find some old blues guy on the street and get him to give me some pointers.
64Firebird
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You need to drop by 64Firebird's school of Blues and Bottle neck Guitar.
But, sense I haven't started it yet I'll just give you some advice. First, have you tried open tunings? I'm fond of open G myself (D G D G B D low to high). Start with that and just play around with it and see what you can find. You have the I chord playing open and at the 12th fret, the IV at the 5th fret and the V at the 7th fret.
But, sense I haven't started it yet I'll just give you some advice. First, have you tried open tunings? I'm fond of open G myself (D G D G B D low to high). Start with that and just play around with it and see what you can find. You have the I chord playing open and at the 12th fret, the IV at the 5th fret and the V at the 7th fret.
F
Forte
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Actually, I always considered that cheating.... I don't know; it's also a bit annoying having to tune everytime I want to play seomthing. What I'm really interested in is more scales, chords, finger picking techniques and etc.
Some history and artist info is good too.
Some history and artist info is good too.
JR#97
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Forte said:
open tunings is cheating? whatever.
Just fyi, almost all chords, scales, styles, etc., will be based on one or more open tunings when it comes to slide. Trust me, open tunings aren't all that hard to learn and actually make more sense for slide than standard tuning.
My favorite slide artists are Jerry Douglas (dobro), Sonny Landreth, Ry Cooder, and Johnny Winter.
For instructional materials, check out Stefan Grossman for traditional blues stuff and Arlen Roth for electric stuff.
For jazz and blues, there are so many books out there. Just check out half.com or amazon.com and order a few.
64Firebird
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Cheating!?! The only slide players I can think of that use standard tuning are Mick Tyler and Warren Haynes. But, if that's to your taste, they both have videos from Hotlicks.
JR#97
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64Firebird said:
what tunes/players use DGDGBD? I do some fingerstyle stuff in that tunings, but haven't learned any slide for that one. I usually use Open E, or drop it open D. Occasionally dip into Dobro tuning.. GBDGBD.
64Firebird
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JR#97 said:
Muddy Waters used it a lot as well as Johnny Winter. If you want to go back further it was also used by Robert Johnson sometimes. They used to call it "Hawaiian tuning." I like it because it has a very bright almost banjo sort of sound.
F
Forte
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I guess I still have a lot to learn. I'll keep doing my research, but thanks for the advice so far. Anymore source names would be nice. 
Even
New member
hey a local buddy of mine here in San diego has a pretty slick learning tool. Its called "musicslide" and has a grip of charts for learning chords, scales and combinations in pretty much any key or style you can dream up. whoa...... am I spamming? well take a gander at his page....
www.musicslide.com maybe its the ticket
www.musicslide.com maybe its the ticket
foo
Active member
If the question is "Between Blues and Jazz for electric guitar?
The answer is "Robben Ford"
He has an instruction video out called Playing the Blues. Spend one hour a day with it for six months and if you have any soul/feel/talent at all, you will be able to play something that will be instantly recognizable to most of the population of the Western world as pretty tasteful and the blues.
He is one of the best around.
foo
The answer is "Robben Ford"
He has an instruction video out called Playing the Blues. Spend one hour a day with it for six months and if you have any soul/feel/talent at all, you will be able to play something that will be instantly recognizable to most of the population of the Western world as pretty tasteful and the blues.
He is one of the best around.
foo
64Firebird
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Robben Ford has 4 vids out now and they are all excellent.
Playing the Blues
Back to the Blues 1 & 2
The Blues and Beyond
Playing the Blues
Back to the Blues 1 & 2
The Blues and Beyond
jimistone
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im not the best slide player in the world but i do okay. i usually use open e tuning. i have never tried an open g tuning...i may experiment with some different tunings...but its hard for an old dog to learn new tricks.
64Firebird
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jimistone said:
The cool thing about open G (or open A) is that you can slide up the the tonic on the first string. With open E or D you're stuck with the on the open first string. That's why I prefer it anyway.
CDT-sHaG
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F
Forte
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Oh, yeah, I have Guitar Masters book marked already.
Thanks though.
Thanks though.
F
Forte
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These links are good too - but you can never have enough I guess.
Maybe those are all of them though....
Maybe those are all of them though....
JR#97
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64Firebird said:
Sometimes I like to play in the key of A or G when using E or D tunings so I can slide up to the tonic. Plus it gives the alternate bass note.
