Slide Guitar Lesson: Playing slide in open E Tuning with your favorite band!

Do you want to improve your slide guitar playing in Open E tuning? Do you find yourself constantly practicing alone? You don’t have a band to practice with, and you’re stuck in your room, playing with no one. Well this is fine for practicing specific things, but you need to start playing with some people. If you can’t find anyone, the next best thing is your CD collection.

I’ve spent years practicing along to my favorite CDs. It allows you to react to playing situations, and create new licks on the spot. It’s fun too. You can jam out with your favorite band all day long if you want. Don’t just sit in your chair either. Crank it up, put your guitar strap on, turn down the lights, and pretend like you’re on stage. You might think this is stupid, but it puts you more in the moment, thus pushing you to create some cool licks from improvising.

Here are some CDs I spent years practicing to.

1. Allman Brothers- Live at Fillmore East
2. Johnny Winter- Third Degree
3. Eric Clapton- From the Cradle
4. Allman Brothers- Eat a Peach
5. Derek Trucks- Joyful noise
6. Allman Brothers- Live at the Beacon Theatre
7. Allman Brother- Back Where it All Begins.

This is only a few, but you get the idea. As you can tell I like the Allman Brothers, and for good reason. They have a lot of songs that are just easy to jam to, and last a long time. They are definitely the band to listen to when learning slide guitar.

I can’t recommend people practicing this way enough. It just helps when practicing to some kind of a beat. Practicing slide guitar can be a boring thing sometimes, and this will take the staleness away, and face it, it’s just fun!

I find that backing tracks are extremely helpful as well. This is why I include backing tracks with my DVD, Slide Guitar Method 1 Open E Tuning, as well as most of my Guitar Lesson Downloads.

So break out the CD collection, dust off the guitar strap, and start jamming with your favorite bands. You’ll have more fun and you’ll be learning all at the same time.

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