Okay we are back to the section that is in the key of A. For this section, we are going to use a slide. Bryan is passionate through a beat of slide guitar. And if you check out how he suddenly materializes a slide in his hand, he usually pokes in his strap. He wears a leather strap on his old Ridge special guitar. He got a little loop on the buckle and you can just pull it out anytime and kind of just do some slide, chuck it back in and then he is off again.
Unfortunately, I got a luxury. I could have just got it ready to go. Let us just look at what we are going to play. There are no particular rules on which finger to put a slide on. I use my center finger. But because this guitar got a very, very low action, I am going to use a very, very light glass slide. So let say I am going to be working in the key of A so if I just kind of hit an A note, there is a note just then. What I like to think about is again the vibrato but the same thing with this slide.
It is not too kind of quick, not to kind of annoying. You got to put the slide dead over the frets to get it pitched properly. If it is not quite on the fret, it will sound out of tune. But you just need a really, really light touch. What we are trying to do first off all is exactly the same of what I did there. Just try playing any major scale so you can get to build your accuracy and try to mute the notes that you do not want playing. A little beat of string rub is cool. It just adds to the vibe. But if you are not confident about using the slide, go to the shop and buy a little glass slide and get getting one because it adds so much to your guitar playing. A lot of guitar players ignore the slide guitar. But Bryan is passionate with the slide and we are going to take a little kind of a few slide licks to this next section and it goes like this.
Okay here is our opener. So I am aiming for this. Just try it very slowly. There is the sliding up. I am coming down. If just on the B string, that is the line you are after. 15th fret on the B down to the 14th fret and on the rest of the string. So from the top, since you have landed on the 14th fret on that D, you got to slide up to the 17th fret just on the B. So from the top very slowly, it is cool little lick.
Once you are in that position, you are handy for that kind of top two strings of an A chord. There is the next lick. So sliding up B string, that is what is tricky. It is not really on the E string, I am sliding. I am coming down from the E string down not quite one fret and I am starting out from that step. When you play it without the slide, it sounds like this. But it sounds complete with this slide obviously. So it is a little kind of zip hop from the 17th to the 19th and land on the 15th.
Here is the next little lick, it does a little cool thing like this. So again, I am visualizing the chord and I am starting up. It is coming down to the 14th fret to the 12th to the 14th on the D. If you are going to break it, I am trying to play that by itself, it sounds cool. Obviously, I am getting another string rubs as well as I am trying to mute this as much as I can but those are the string rubs. I was just doing that. That is what we are after.
The next kind of section does similar thing that we have been doing here but we are doing it now on the 9th fret on the G and the 8th fret of B so you get this. Again, it is a cool little kind of position. If you can see the pentatonic, this position one, this position two, that is what you are after. So you can do it with a slide – it is kind of awkward because you got to slide up on the G and since you hit that 8th fret on the B, you got to kind go back.
The next lick is a line coming down. I will just show you without the slide first of all. So if I try to play that with the slide – so that is 8, 7, 5 on the B and I am going 7, 5, 6 on the G and as I slide away from the 6, I land on the 7 on the D. So, let us just put that in context from that previous lick. If you take that template and just do your kind of thing as long as it sounds dominant 7. This time, I want to change the k
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