Kirk's Weekly Guitar Lesson: How to play Slide Guitar

by Kirk Lorange

Hi, fellow twanger, first a little ad for my book.

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http://www.thatllteachyou.com is where to go to find out all about it, read countelss testimonials and order it.

Kirk's Finger Style Lessons

Bluellaby: a familiar rhythm pattern to use over 12 bar blues. Intermediate.

http://www.guitarforbeginners.com/forum/showthread.php?t=21577

Sixteen Twenty-Five: a fairly complex original tune, fairly challenging.

http://www.guitarforbeginners.com/forum/showthread.php?t=21778

How to play Slide Guitar in Standard and Dropped D tunings

No, you don't have to learn a bunch of new open tunings to play slide guitar, you can stay in standard tuning or drop tha bass string down to D. Standard is in fact a very rich environment for playing slide ... you just need to know where to look for all the chord flavors. My 70 minute DVD will get you there a lot faster than trying to figure it out yourself. I've been doing it sonce 1969!

Learn more and listen to many samples at http://www.bottleneckguitar.com

YouTube videos

I'm closing in on 1.5 million views of my guitar movies at my YouTube site. Apart from the GfB&B lessons, I have also uploaded some new videos of my original tunes I thought you might be interested in.

Sixteen-Twenty-Five - an extended version of the lesson, done as a self duet.

http://au.youtube.com/watch?v=iL6HvTcqdLk

Changes - a slide imporv over a track that keeps changing keys.

http://au.youtube.com/watch?v=RvJcxDyLH3I

Over and Out

That's it, enjoy the lessons and don't forget that if you have any questions about anything even remotely related to playing the guitar, Guitar for Beginners and Beyond is the place to ask them ... and if you've been playing for a while, please feel free to drop in and answer them. There are over 20,000 discussions and 210,000 posts there now, so it's a gold mine of guitar info. We just passed the 90,000 members mark, soon we'll be into six digits.

http://www.guitarforbeginners.com/forum/ is where to go.

All the best, happy twanging and enjoy the lessons,

Kirk Lorange
http://www.guitar.name

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