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Guitar News Weekly
Edition #56 - September 6, 1999

LEARN HEAPS MORE ABOUT SLIDE GUITAR HERE...

SLIDE & STEEL
www.GuitarSite.com/newsletters/990719/7.shtml
The slide guitar is typically a standard guitar, held the usual way, and fretted with a piece of metal or glass, typically a tube worn on one finger. The sound of the slide guitar can be quite similar to the steel guitar. Famous slide guitarists include Ry Cooder, Bonnie Raitt and Muddy Waters.

This GNW article reviews all the best slide & steel sites & artists:
www.GuitarSite.com/newsletters/990719/7.shtml

LEARNING SLIDE GUITAR
www.GuitarSite.com/database/Tuition/rec/565
Over ninety years ago , W.C. Handy wrote in his autobiography, Father Of The Blues, of being awakened in the Tutwiler, Mississippi, train station by the sound of a guitarist: "As he played, he pressed a knife on the strings of the guitar in a manner popularised by the Hawaiian guitarists who used steel bars. The effect was unforgettable. His song too, struck me instantly..."

SLIDE GUITAR AS A SECOND LANGUAGE
www.GuitarSite.com/database/Tuition/rec/1362
These free Slide Guitar lessons in RealAudio are taken from Phil Johnson's instruction video "Slide Guitar as a Second Language" this 2 hour video is the only instruction video that deals exclusively with slide guitar in standard guitar tuning. NO NEW TUNINGS to learn. Using Phil Johnson's innovative "behind-the-bar" fretting technique anyone can learn to play slide guitar in any style.

SLIDE GUITAR THE REAL BLUES
www.GuitarSite.com/database/Guitars/rec/584
Slide guitar tips, players, instruments, discussion, chat and outrageous blues opinions by Brian "King Bee" Robertson, author of Little Blues Book

BRAD'S PAGE OF STEEL
www.well.com/user/wellvis/steel.html
"lap steel guitar is held in your lap facing toward you" You've probably checked out this great resource already... Search for steel guitar, and this page always comes up first in Search Engines!

THE ORIGINAL SLIDE GUITAR CLIP
www.GuitarSite.com/database/Resources/rec/2571
You will find The Original Slide Guitar Clip,an invention by Tom Surber, for slide guitar players to keep their slide at their fingertips,you will never lose your slide again! Also you will find some great links to new sites in America! The site is dedicated to promoting music and all the art's.

TUNING SLIDE GUITAR
www.GuitarSite.com/newsletters/2.htm
Open vs normal tuning slide guitar, by Kirk Lorange

CRASH COURSE ON DROP-D TUNING SLIDE GUITAR, by Kirk Lorange
www.onthenet.com.au/~kirkclan/Slide_Lesson.htm
"I have been playing slide guitar for about a third of a century. It's what I'm best known for DownUnder. I have played on many, many sessions over the years, album tracks, jingles and movie soundtracks. If you live down here you've heard me often on TV and radio commercials. Like most players, when I started learning slide, I tuned to an open chord. Open G as I recall. I was soon sounding like all those other players I had listened to. Great! But not great for long. It got boring to play and boring to listen to..."

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