Guitar World - Andy Aledort: Learn Slide Guitar

Guitar World - Andy Aledort: Learn Slide Guitar Learn Slide Guitar is the ultimate DVD instructional guide to playing slide guitar like a pro. Designed for beginning-to-intermediate players, this DVD contains more than two hours of lessons that will teach you how to play in open and standard tunings, slide scales for soloing in all keys, improvising, open-tuning chord forms, muting, vibrato, Delta and electric blues, plus much more!

CHAPTER 1: Introduction

Performance/DVD Objectives
Wearing the Slide: What Finger?
String Action/String Gauge
Picking: Fingers vs. Pick
Slide Types/Materials

CHAPTER 2: Open E Tuning

Open E Tuning: E B E G# B E
Chord Forms in Open E Tuning
Slide Scales for Soloing
Slide Positioning/Intonation
Right-and Left-Hand Muting Techniques
Expanding Basic Scale Position
Using Open Strings
E Major Pentatonic
E Major Hexatonic
Medium-Slow Shuffle, Elmore James Style
Medium-Slow Shuffle, Johnny Winter Style
E Shuffle, a la Robert Johnson
Duane Allman Style
Ry Cooder Style
Derek Trucks Style

CHAPTER 3: Open D Tuning

Open D Tuning: D A D F# A D
Johnny Winter Style

CHAPTER 4: Open A Tuning

Open A Tuning: E A E A C# E
Chord Forms in Open A Tuning
Slide Scales for Soloing
Using Open Strings
John Lee Hooker Style
Johnny Winter Style
Robert Johnson/Sleepy John Estes Style
Muddy Waters Style

CHAPTER 5: Open G Tuning

Open G Tuning: D G D G B D
Slide Scales for Soloing
Muddy Waters/Johnny Winter Style
Keith Richards Style
Mick Taylor Style

CHAPTER 6: Standard Tuning

Slide Scales for Soloing
Slow Blues in E, Robert Nighthawk Style
Earl Hooker/Wah-Wah Slide Style
A la “Statesboro Blues”

CHAPTER 7: Vibrato

CHAPTER 8: Standard Tuning with a Twist

Stevie Ray Vaughan’s “G String up One Half Step to G#”

Language: English
Year: 2009
Country: USA
Running time: 2 hours
Quality: DVD5
Video: MPEG2 720x480 ~6500 kbps NTSC 4:3 29.970 fps
Audio: AC3 2 ch 192 Kbps 48.0 KHz
Booklet: Yes (JPG)
Size: 2.5 Gb