Dropped D rhythm slide.

Hi fellow twang fan, happy Halloween! Boo!! It's kind of neat being back in the Northern Hemisphere for pumpkin season. I carved ours yesterday, and made some delicious soup from the flesh ... add a couple onions, a sweet potato to emulsify it, salt, pepper, cummin, some real bacon bits ... Mmmmm.

Rhythm slide? What the heck is that? It's basically the style I always play now, which is with a slide on my pinkie to enhance what could otherwise be ordinary and mundane. Slide is more often thought of as a melodic style but it can be incorporated into a rhythm part too, as this new lesson shows.

Go to http://www.thatllteachyou.com/Aslide/ and dig in.

There's a neat rendition of ‘Summer Time’ too, at www.guitarforbeginners.com. Follow the weekly lesson link.

Here's the latest feedback from my PlaneTalk site:

"Kirk - Been reading your book PlaneTalk, studying the forum threads, and playing guitar a lot better (and with understanding!) for it. I always knew I had at least some innate ability, but I only seemed to learn through brute memorization and repetition. And if I got lost during a solo...forget it! Now I'm finally developing a 'sense of direction', and can pretty much find my way out and back home again. Thanks very much."
BK from USA

A fairly typical letter from yet another happy twanger who has learned 'the trick'. Check it out at http://www.thatllteachyou.com if you're still wondering how to 'see' the entire fretboard as friendly, familiar territory.

Until next week, all the best.

Kirk