Open g is the most common example of alternate guitar tunings and using a slide is by far the most common technique for this delta blues tuning. Exploring slide guitar in open e tuning guitar world. Slide guitar in open g tuning beginner lesson youtube. Click here to download a printable pdf of this lesson s. Jealous again pretty simple 12 bar blues kind of song played on electric. Here are 12 easy slide licks for openg tuning for you. First well look at how to play the strings with your right hand fingers. In this lesson we have some chords for you, for all who play slide guitar in open g tuning. Open g tuning slide guitar course learning guitar now. To tune to open g from standard tuning e a d g b e, tune your sixth, fifth and first strings down one whole step and leave your fourth, third and. The open positions offer a great deal of open harmonies. In this weeks guitar lesson, youll learn some basic blues slide guitar techniques for electric guitar although these could easily be played on acoustic as well. I will also show you a quick way to get into open g tuning and show you several slide licks that you can use in that tuning. Slide guitar basics is a free lesson for slide guitar by jody worrell.
Oct 12, 2015 the most commonly used open tunings for slide are e, d, g and a. Open g slide guitar lesson riffs, licks how to play. With the guitar tuned this way, strumming across all six open strings will sound an open g major chord, with the fifth, d, being the lowest note. Major chords in open g major chords in open g major chords in open g minor chords in open g minor chords in open g 7th chords in open g. Dec 10, 2018 in this open g tuning slide guitar lesson, i want to show you a cool lick and exercise that will help get you playing some blues guitar in open g tuning.
Learn how to play a slide guitar lick in open g tuning in this guitar lesson. My free blues guitar lessons the blues is about feeling good. Open g tuning slide lick lesson in the key of g youtube. Its effectively a course within a course, covering fundamental techniques such as muting and intonation, before going on to teach to you authentic blues solos in a variety of grooves, keys and tunings, including standard and open e, g, a and d tunings. Slide guitar blues solo in open g tuning sl001 youtube. Open g tuning basic slide in open g in this course well start off with the fundamentals of playing slide, but after that were off to the races with a new set of songs in open g tuning, which was used extensively through the mississippi delta. My free blues guitar lessons the blues is about feeling. Lessons chords digging deeper intermediate rock sound samples tab. Most slide guitar instructions start like and now we use the open xyz tuning. Jan 07, 2019 in this open g tuning slide guitar lesson, i want to show you a cool lick and exercise that will help get you playing some blues guitar in open g tuning. While i dont have any lessons for open d and open a, they are identical to open e and open g except the entire tuning is one whole step lower for open d and one whole step higher for open a. In this open g tuning slide guitar lesson, i want to show you a cool lick and exercise that will help get you playing some blues guitar in open g tuning.
Further exploration of playing slide in open g tuning. Twelve bar blues in g cigar box guitar tablature lesson. Further exploration of playing slide in open g tuning guitar world. They can be played with finger picks or with a flat pick or no picks. Learn how to visualize chordscales in an open tuning. They can be played with finger picks or with a flat pick or. Using your fingers instead of a pick will give you more control over which notes can be heard and for how long.
Dec 10, 2018 with the guitar tuned this way, strumming across all six open strings will sound an open g major chord, with the fifth, d, being the lowest note. You start from the first 12barblues to your first blues solo licks. The bottleneck way of playing guitar consists of letting the surface of the slide rest on the strings while we strum or fingerpick. Put the slide on your ring or little finger and shift between g on the 12th fret and c and d.
Jul 29, 2019 the most common open tunings for slide guitar playing are open e, d, g and a. Twice as hard electric guitar song played with a slide. To avoid this, cancel and sign in to youtube on your computer. Slide guitar learn how to play slide guitar in open e tuning, open g tuning, and standard tuning in the style of duane allman, derek trucks, warren haynes, and more in my gibson recommended lessons. For the examples in this lesson, im using a bottletype slide, worn on my ring finger. The bright art and beauty of slide guitar in open g tuning. All of my free open g tuning tuning slide guitar lessons. Twelve bar blues in g 3string open g gdg cigar box guitar. Its effectively a course within a course, covering fundamental techniques such as muting and intonation, before going on to teach to you. G open and d open and a series of blues with several riffs and turnarounds to learn how to use the slide the best acoustic blues guitar. Open e tuning this is a great tuning for slide guitar and is associated with the elmore james, duane allman, and derek trucks style of slide guitar. A twelve bar blues guitar solo in open g tuning played on a gibson hound dog dobro. If youre new to this tuning check out this video on open g tuning. When it comes to the pick hand, most slide guitarists prefer to play with either their bare fingertips, with a thumbpick and fingers, or with a thumbpick and fingerpicks.
Even though open tunings completely change the location of notes on the fretboard, slide playing becomes much easier in an open tuning. Slide rhythm in open g tb047 blues guitar institute. Some slide blues licks in open g that son house and robert johnson and other delta guys used to great effect in open g tuning. To avoid this, ill first explain slide guitar on standard tuning, so all you need is a slide. Click here to download a printable pdf of this lesson s notation. When i was putting this lesson together i was watching a bunch of lessons on open g tuning and they were all about the rolling stones.
Typically, in open g tuning, the iv chord would be played at the fifth fret, but johnson sometimes used his slide to play it at the eighth fret, with just the fifth g and flatted seventh bflat creating a nice tension in the soundsee ex. Videos you watch may be added to the tvs watch history and influence tv recommendations. Open e tuning is achieved by raising the pitches of your a, d and g strings while leaving. In deep with andy aledort how to play slide guitar in. In this lesson i talk about about slide guitar setup and show you 6 slide licks in open g tuning, using fretted and slide notes tab included. Videos you watch may be added to the tvs watch history and influence. See below for a special two pack price open g tuning basic slide in open g.
In slide guitar lessons are two of the most famous open tunings. Unlocking the mysteries of slide guitar in open g tuning. This lesson will cover some beginner concepts that are necessary for learning how to play slide guitar. Jul 16, 2016 the slide plays the inbetween notes on the ands of 1 and 2. Each lick played over a 12 bar blues backing track and then explained note by note with on screen tab. Understand how keith richards creates his signature sound. Open e tuning slide guitar lessons learning guitar now. Level 4 features a huge, 19 part tutorial on the art of slide guitar. Along with open e and open d, open g is one of the most commonly used open tunings for slide guitar.
There are, of course, others that are utilized, with many distinctive variations, depending on the musician and style of music. In this course well start off with the fundamentals of. Chords in open g tuning chart alternate tuning open g tuning. Free open g tuning slide lessons learning guitar now. Video lessons in this course are presented in full. How to play blues slide guitar lessons burninguitar. In this guitar lesson ill show you how to play basic, delta blues style slide guitar on an acoustic. Its pretty easy to get going, just tune strings 6, 5, and 1 down one tone. If playback doesnt begin shortly, try restarting your device. Open g tuning songs open g blues guitar tuning the video above opens with an old clip of me playing crossroads by robert johnson on an old johnny joyce model aria, and at 1. Open tunings have been exploited for use with slide guitar since the earliest days of delta blues. That means you can forget what you know about the fretboard and forget both your left and right hand techniques. Easy blues slide guitar licks in open g lesson youtube.
Learning slide guitar two program packs open d tuning and g tuning. Unlocking the mysteries of slide guitar in open g tuning guitar. May 14, 2014 a twelve bar blues guitar solo in open g tuning played on a gibson hound dog dobro. Generally, the guitar action needs to be higher than when playing. These lessons are mainly in the style of ry cooder, robert johnson and my own style. Please practice handwashing and social distancing, and check out our resources for adapting to these times. Heres a master lesson with the great arlen roth open g is one very flexible tuning, and the possibilities for slide players are endless. This is a fairly simple lick but can be heard on countless blues recordings. This edition of in deep will focus on open g tuning and how it is used in blues slide guitar playing. Slide guitar, how to play the blues, slide guitar blues, and how to play blues guitar are covered here. All of the free open e tuning slide guitar lessons i have created. All the free slide guitar lessons i have created to learn open g tuning, open e, and standard tuning. Open g tuning was probably the first ever open tuning i learned, suddenly all the rolling stones songs id been playing before sounded right and it was very exciting. Slide guitar lesson in open g tuning blue shadows tab.
I also demonstrate how the v chord can be tagged at the end of the turnaround with the slide. Along with open e and open d, open g is one of the most. Resonator guitar slide blues in open g tuning youtube. The most common open tunings for slide guitar playing are open e, d, g and a. Note that open a is the same relative tuning, but every note. This song is part of my slide guitar ebook if you bought the ebook in the past, let me. The most commonly used open tunings for slide are e, d, g and a.
Fearless from the album meddle is an acoustic guitar song played in open g. Now you know how and where to fret the strings to grip some chords. Aug 17, 2017 some slide blues licks in open g that son house and robert johnson and other delta guys used to great effect in open g tuning. Feb 03, 2017 to be exact, this guitar is not tuned to open g but rather open f, which of course is the same type of tuning but a full tone lower. This guitar lesson is going to be about open g tuning. Seven slide guitar arrangements in open d, and open g tuning. In my open g tuning course, i want to eliminate the frustrations so many guitar players cant seem to overcome when learning how to play slide guitar.
Open e tuning is achieved by raising the pitches of your a, d and g strings while leaving the low e, b and high e strings tuned normally. Jul 28, 2017 for example, the way the low estring is the same tone as the v chord d in a key of g blues progression offers a cool lownote option to end a phrase with. One of the most common things to play with the open g tuning is blues in the key of g. For example, the way the low estring is the same tone as the v chord d in a key of g blues progression offers a cool lownote option to end a phrase with. Feb 4, 2016 open g slide guitar lesson riffs, licks how to play youtube stay safe and healthy. To change this up and maybe give you something new, i busted out my acoustic guitar and came up with a small lick using open g tuning. Open g tuning guitar lesson blues and slide guitar chalk. In this months column, id like to focus on the basic elements of slide guitar playing in open e tuning. In this lesson we have some chords for you, for all who play slide guitar in openg tuning. This lick is played on the middle three strings which dont actually change from standard tuning to open g, so you could just as well play this in standard. Learn slide guitar with this collection of free slide guitar lessons from truefire. These are in the style of derek trucks an duane allman for the most part. Well stick with open g tuning for this lesson as we.
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