Slide Guitar Tuition

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Personalised Online Tuition

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One to one tuition

Based in Guildford town centre (south east UK)
Longer lessons available for pupils travelling from further away.
£25.00 per hour.
Beginners and improvers welcome.
Lessons can be recorded for reference (extra charge)

Workshops

Available as a presentation to larger groups.
Discusses the history of slide playing.
Condensed lesson plan to suit class ability.
Demonstrates different styles and techniques.

Outline of lesson plan
Getting Started:
  • Who inspired you to learn?
  • Electric or acoustic?
  • Lap style or upright?
  • A dedicated guitar?
  • Your role in the band: only slide or regular guitar too?
  • Action
  • String gauge
  • Tunings
  • Standard
  • Dropped D
  • Open
  • Brass, glass or steel?
  • Which finger?
  • How heavy?
The Basics:
  • Getting used to wearing a bottleneck
  • Fingers or picks?
  • Combinations
  • Intonation
  • Holding the guitar
  • Muting
  • Behind the slide
  • Palm
  • Fingers
  • Vibrato
Mapping Out The Neck:
  • Chords
  • 1, 4, 5 and relative minor
  • Scales
  • Blues 'box' shapes
  • Country open string positions
  • Double stops
  • Major and minor
Developing Your Vocabulary:
  • Playing in different keys
  • Pros and cons of using a capo
  • Tuning devices
  • Improvising
  • the sweet notes
  • Taste
  • less is more
  • Different musical styles
  • Acoustic blues
  • Electric blues
  • Blues/rock
  • Bluegrass/folk
Expanding Your Technique:
  • Fretting behind the slide
  • Octave lines
  • Overtones and harmonics
  • Violining
  • Fake pedal steel
  • Hammer-ons
  • Beyond the neck (high notes)



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