Electric Slide Guitar Book/Online Audio

I really like how the author of this book introduces the slide and presents manageable exercises to handle the slide in different playing situations before introducing licks and riffs with the slide. I haven't played through the entire book yet and it may be a long time before that happens but I peaked ahead and I also like how the material repeats in various tunings to allow the learner to learn how to use the slide without overburdening the learning brain with too much new material. This book does include standard tuning as well. This is in my opinion a great place to start.

You will profit more if you work from the begginning to the end. I learned his acoustic slide book that way. But I was dying from too many exercises and jumped right into the middle and learned the parts that show how to play like Elmo' James and HoundDog. I want to do the Johny Winter part too. This will really jump start your slide playing.

Likely not the best instructional type book you'll ever read, but a good one none-the-less. Covers the basic open tuning patterns, as well as showing how to relate open tuning to standard tuning. Offers some easy runs to get you going. While it does not go into great detail for any particular topic, it does a good job of showing you the basics of playing the slide guitar. For the price, definitely a good starting point.

Really like the different techniques and styles covered in this book. I still have a ways to go but it gives me a lot of new ideas to pursue for licks, scales, techniques and styles from Ry Cooder to Muddy Waters style.

This is a good book. It's a good introduction to slide guitar. I've been working through a few sections of it during the few hours a week that I have to practice, and I've enjoyed it. I still can't play like Duane Allman yet, but hey, the book doesn't claim to be able to work miracles.There are a few drawbacks that could make the book better. One is pictures. It would be helpful to have some illustrations with respect to how to work the right hand. The left hand it pretty simple - hold the slide on the strings. But the description of the left hand would have been enhanced had it included an illustration.Also with respect to the left hand actions, the author only describes how HE does it. If you watch videos on Youtube or at Gibson's website, you'll learn that there are a lot of different ways to work the right hand. Some people use a pick. Some use only fingers. Arlen Roth only uses the thumb to play bass notes and uses the fingers to play all the lead notes. There are a lot of different ways to work the right hand, but the author only explains the method he finds comfortable. The reader should watch some youtube videos and other instructional videos on this subject and find the method that works best for himself.All in all, it's a pretty good book. There aren't a whole helluva lot of slide guitar materials out there, and this is probably just as good as any other.

I really liked this book . The slide style taught (rock / electric blues) git well with my own playing. Unfortunately the book was lost in a recent fire and I haven't been able to replace it.

Excellent book to learn slide guitar.

An introduction to slide guitar , with many licks , many of known slide guitarists, and its good for starting to play (jf you like copying the licks) butbeing slide a tool for use mainly (as its displayed in the book ) in open E and open G tuning , I miss theoretical aspects of understand these tunings:For example in the two open E and G tuning being different from the starndard doe not display the drawings of scales (minor, major blues) used in the licks or simply to improvise with them over the fretboard,.I miss also chord formation in open G and Open E tuning standards, so you can know where to apply the slide or put the fingers.As an introduction is good but i will need a better book to understand playing the slide and how to apply it for my self.

Great tutor for slide guitar.

Muy gradual y didáctico. Perfecto para iniciarse con el slide.El mejor método en la materia de los que he visto hasta ahora.

Libro essenziale per conoscere la tecnica dello slide sulla chitarra elettrica con ottimi esercizi.L'autore espone con chiarezza i concetti e con un linguaggio semplice; di grande aiuto il cd con gli esempi.Il materiale è stato consegnato con puntualità e in perfetto stato.

Well written, I made good steady progression.

Great book for a library of slide ideas . . But the music file links are unreliable, and therefore deducted stars