Blues Bootcamp: Slide Guitar

Did you miss Reverend Robert Jones' highly acclaimed Blues Bootcamp on Blues Slide Playing? No worries. This Bootcamp course is the next best thing to being there!

Drawing on the principles the Reverend covers in the provided prep materials section, he presents variations and more advanced applications across a series of illuminating performance studies: Walking Blues, Come On In My Kitchen, Cross Road Blues, Deathletter Blues, Crossroads, A Minor Slide Blues, Low Down Dirty Dog Blues, Hill Country Blues, Come Back Baby, You Done Told Everybody, Worried Devil Blues, Dust My Broom, Long Distance Call, and I Know His Blood Can Make Me Whole.

This Bootcamp course includes ALL of the video teaching sessions, prep materials, discussions, Q&A, playalong practice sessions, backing tracks, tablature, and all of the other materials presented during the Bootcamp — over 5 hours of lessons, insight and inspiration!

Throughout the series of sessions and discussions the Reverend also addresses a wide variety of key topics: Creative Perspectives, Basic Slide Ideas, Right hand Technique, Bigger the String - Bigger the Sound, Chord & Harmonic Tuning, Slide Control, Essential Influences, Son House, Mississippi Fred McDowell, Resources, Tampa Red, Robert Nighthawk, Elmore James, Open G Soloing, Muddy Waters, Listening for Specific Tuning, Yodeling in the Blues, Distinguishing Between Blues Styles, Piedmont Roll and Alternate Picking, Blind Willie Johnson, Open G, and Making the Song Your Own.

The Reverend also covers: Hand Making Instruments, Incorporating the Rhythm, Foot Tappin' to Keep Rhythm, Gear Run Down, Open Tuning and the Pentatonic, Muting, Difference Between Resonators, Slide in Standard Tuning, Practice Time, Raking, Right Hand Drills, Performance Insights, Involving the Thumb, Engaging the Audience with Storytelling, Setting the Mic for Acoustic Slide, Keeping in Time While Singing, Origin of the Thumbpick, Pickup in a Resonator, Playing Live with Various Guitars, Lesson from Playing a Bad Gig, and Rev’s Best Gigs.

You’ll get standard notation and tabs for all of the performance studies and key examples. Plus, you’ll be able to use TrueFire’s learning tools to sync the tab and notation to the video lesson. You can also loop or slow down the videos so that you can work with the lessons at your own pace.

It’s all here -- grab your guitar and dig in to the Bootcamp with the Reverend Robert Jones!

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