So You Want to Learn Slide Guitar?

It’s January 2013 and that means it’s a new year with new opportunities and beginnings. Many of you may be debating whether you want to try learning slide guitar or not and start playing some real emotive sounds on the guitar.

In this blog post, I’m going to list some helpful resources I have on the site, to make it easier to access the most popular beginner slide guitar Free Lessons.

First let’s talk about tunings. This is really important as it will dictate how you will sound and what you will need to learn. Check out my post on Side Guitar Tunings to understand what each tuning is all about.

Open G Tuning Free Tutorials

• Open G Tuning Beginner Lesson
• Open G Tuning Slide Lesson
• Open G Dobro Lesson

Open E Tuning Free Tutorials

• How to Tune to Open E
• How to Hold the Slide
• Intro to Open E Tuning
• Duane Allman Slide Lesson

Standard Tuning Free Tutorials

• Warren Haynes Free Lesson
• Warren Haynes Slide Guitar Lick
• Standard Tuning Slide Lick

My Story with Slide Guitar

• Part One of how I started playing the slide.
• Part Two of how I started playing slide.

Slide Tone, Strings, and Settings

• My settings for some of the DVDs
• What kind of strings to use?
• A Guide to Tone

There’s some of the most informative material I have produced for Free on the site regarding slide guitar. If you would like to learn ever more check out the slide guitar section in the Learning Guitar Now Store. Check out these lessons here.