Lessons For Electric Slide Guitar In Standard Tuning

Okay, so the first thing I want to talk about is what we’re going to do with our left hand and with our hand. And we kind of cover this on the last video but I want to reiterate. In terms of your left hand, for me I think it’s best if you can keep your fingers, a finger or two fingers down behind the slide on the strings. You don’t want to push down so far and you’re hitting the frets like that. But you want unwanted noise to go away and not be there, if you have the slide, just by itself. A lot of times especially with more gain and more volume, you’re going to end up getting a lot of unwanted noise. So kind of my route down, I’m going to start off getting use to playing with your fingers behind the slide. And then there’s going to be times when you’re pulling off to get add resonance and then make it sustain more, and that would kind of come with time. But to me, the cleaner you can play with your left hand, the better off you’re going to be, especially in standard tuning because you don’t have to fall back if you wouldn’t able to play kind of anything like you are in an opening tuning. With the right hand, not with any of the strings that we don’t want to play ring out, so all my fingers and my thumb were basically covering all the strings. And so when I want to hit a string, I don’t want any of the other string as we ring out. And that’s kind of a down fall for me in terms of if you play with the pick only [Demonstration], maybe all those strings ringing out constantly because you can’t really control them easily. If you can use your fingers and your thumbs, [Demonstration] it can be much percussive get start off that their track is sort of tune. So when you add on some game, you get a lot of better tune and a lot of cleaner tunes, so you won’t have a lot of unwanted noise in there. Let’s talk a little bit about arpeggios. In playing the blue stuff or rock bass stuff, sometimes using our arpeggios and with the slide can be kind of a cool effect. I’ve really got two arpeggios for you on the tabs. One is in E# diminished arpeggio and the other ones major seventh arpeggio. Both of these you’re going to work well in the key of A for a blue stuff. Typically when you transition from your four chords and back to the one chord on a blues’ scale, you can play arpeggio and that diminished arpeggio some real good if it has changed. And so what we’ll do is I suppose to playing the chord, we’ll just put arpeggio with the slide. So we’re starting on the 6th fret then you’ll go to the next finger on the 4th fret and same string up to the seventh to the fifth on the next string, 4th on the next string [Demonstration], fifth on the first string and then to the eight [Demonstration]. Let’s do that again [Demonstration]. And that’s a cool sort of that lick. You can play and then resolve into blues lick [Demonstration]. The next arpeggio I’m going to work on is the Cm7 arpeggios. It is in the second measure of the third line. Again, a Cm7 arpeggio will work in the key of A when you’re playing blues. So for this one, we’re going to start in the sixth string on the 8th fret, go the seventh on the next string to the 10th on the string, the ninth on the next string to the 10th, ninth from the next string, eight on the next string, seventh, and then end on the 10th. Let’s do that again [Demonstration]. You can get some cool tunes out of this arpeggio. You can do a sweet type lick where you work off the bed. The fourth, third, second and then first string using your thumb, index, middle and ring finger. Full those three as you pull the slide back ending on the first string and then slide up to the 10th.