suwilliam2004
Verified buyer
01/15/26
It's great.
You need to know some guitar to understand the material. Otherwise, it's great, showcase lots of slide guitar phrasing.
Jump Start Slide Guitar
Play Killer Slide Guitar In Standard Tuning
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About this course
Most guitar players, even pros, tend to shy away from learning how to play slide guitar mistakenly thinking it's too large of a learning curve. Yet, we all aspire to be more expressive and creative when we’re soloing.
Ariel Posen’s Jump Start Slide Guitar is designed to get busy pros and practicing guitarists up and running quickly and painlessly.
"The textural, expressive, and vocal-like qualities of slide guitar take your soloing and improvisations to a whole other level — and you can do it in standard tuning.
The more expressive we can be with our playing, the better we’re able to bring out the essence of the story we’re telling with our solos and improvisations.
I’ll first show you the core techniques, we’ll practice the techniques together, and then we’ll put it all to work, over backing tracks, for real-world musical context.”
In Ariel Posen’s Jump Start Slide Guitar course: Slides, Strings, Action, Essential Right Hand Techniques, Slide Vibrato & Intonation, Sliding Pentatonic Scales, Sliding Major Scales, Sliding Minor Scales, Sliding Horizon: E Minor, Slide Restraint & Dynamics, Sequencing Note Clusters with Slide, and Double Stops with a Slide
Ariel will demonstrate and explain all of the key concepts and techniques. You’ll practice everything with Ariel onscreen and have all of TrueFire’s learning tools at your fingertips. Practice and play your way through the course and you’ll be pulling out your slide at gigs and jams in no time at all!
You’ll have all of TrueFire’s advanced learning tools at your finger tips to personalize your workspace and learn at your own pace.
You can loop, slow down, or speed up any section of a lesson. Plus, all of the tab and notation is synced to the videos for the optimal learning experience. You’ll also get tab and standard notation files to print out, Guitar Pro files, and all of the backing tracks to practice with.
Grab your guitar, and let’s dig deep with Ariel Posen!
Ariel Posen’s Jump Start Slide Guitar is designed to get busy pros and practicing guitarists up and running quickly and painlessly.
"The textural, expressive, and vocal-like qualities of slide guitar take your soloing and improvisations to a whole other level — and you can do it in standard tuning.
The more expressive we can be with our playing, the better we’re able to bring out the essence of the story we’re telling with our solos and improvisations.
I’ll first show you the core techniques, we’ll practice the techniques together, and then we’ll put it all to work, over backing tracks, for real-world musical context.”
In Ariel Posen’s Jump Start Slide Guitar course: Slides, Strings, Action, Essential Right Hand Techniques, Slide Vibrato & Intonation, Sliding Pentatonic Scales, Sliding Major Scales, Sliding Minor Scales, Sliding Horizon: E Minor, Slide Restraint & Dynamics, Sequencing Note Clusters with Slide, and Double Stops with a Slide
Ariel will demonstrate and explain all of the key concepts and techniques. You’ll practice everything with Ariel onscreen and have all of TrueFire’s learning tools at your fingertips. Practice and play your way through the course and you’ll be pulling out your slide at gigs and jams in no time at all!
You’ll have all of TrueFire’s advanced learning tools at your finger tips to personalize your workspace and learn at your own pace.
You can loop, slow down, or speed up any section of a lesson. Plus, all of the tab and notation is synced to the videos for the optimal learning experience. You’ll also get tab and standard notation files to print out, Guitar Pro files, and all of the backing tracks to practice with.
Grab your guitar, and let’s dig deep with Ariel Posen!
What you'll learn
- Execute the 4 to flat 3 slide lick across strings
- Create fluid improvisations by focusing on small intervallic groups
- Create vocal-like melodic lines using triplet rhythms
- Develop melodic sequences using major and pentatonic scales
- Build phrases horizontally rather than relying on vertical scale patterns
Release date: 02/14/2023 • 1h 41m runtime
Sample lessons
Sliding School: Ab Major
Performance
Sequencing Note Clusters with Slide
Demonstration
Slide Cluster Jam
Overview
Slide Cluster Jam
Performance
What's included
42 lessons • 18 charts • 10 Jam Tracks
Jump Start Slide Guitar
Hey, Ariel Posen here. Some guitar players tend to shy away from learning how to play slide guitar thinking it's too large of a learning curve. Yet, we all aspire to be more expressive and creative when we’re playing.
The textural, expressive, and vocal-like qualities of slide guitar can take your soloing and improvisations to a whole other level.
Jump Start Slide Guitar is designed to get you up and running quickly, playing your way through the entire course in standard tuning.
I’ll show you the core techniques and we’ll put each of them to work over backing tracks.
All of the tabs are synced to the video and we’ll work with backing tracks for musical context. You can also slow down or loop any section of the video lessons to learn at your own pace.
If you’re ready, let’s jump into it.
The textural, expressive, and vocal-like qualities of slide guitar can take your soloing and improvisations to a whole other level.
Jump Start Slide Guitar is designed to get you up and running quickly, playing your way through the entire course in standard tuning.
I’ll show you the core techniques and we’ll put each of them to work over backing tracks.
All of the tabs are synced to the video and we’ll work with backing tracks for musical context. You can also slow down or loop any section of the video lessons to learn at your own pace.
If you’re ready, let’s jump into it.
Slides, Strings, Action!
In this first series of lessons we're going to go over where to start when getting into playing slide guitar. From the type of slide you should use down to basic techniques that will help you get the sound you're looking for, these next few videos will start you on the right path but we'll dive into some more essential techniques in the next lesson series.
We'll kick things off with a short overview, then we'll jump into a performance, finally, we'll break it all down in detail.
We'll kick things off with a short overview, then we'll jump into a performance, finally, we'll break it all down in detail.
Getting Started Jam
In this first series of lessons we're going to go over where to start when getting into playing slide guitar. From the type of slide you should use down to basic techniques that will help you get the sound you're looking for, these next few videos will start you on the right path but we'll dive into some more essential techniques in the next lesson series.
We'll kick things off with a short overview, then we'll jump into a performance, finally, we'll break it all down in detail.
We'll kick things off with a short overview, then we'll jump into a performance, finally, we'll break it all down in detail.
Getting Started Jam
In this first series of lessons we're going to go over where to start when getting into playing slide guitar. From the type of slide you should use down to basic techniques that will help you get the sound you're looking for, these next few videos will start you on the right path but we'll dive into some more essential techniques in the next lesson series.
We'll kick things off with a short overview, then we'll jump into a performance, finally, we'll break it all down in detail.
We'll kick things off with a short overview, then we'll jump into a performance, finally, we'll break it all down in detail.
Getting Started Jam
In this first series of lessons we're going to go over where to start when getting into playing slide guitar. From the type of slide you should use down to basic techniques that will help you get the sound you're looking for, these next few videos will start you on the right path but we'll dive into some more essential techniques in the next lesson series.
We'll kick things off with a short overview, then we'll jump into a performance, finally, we'll break it all down in detail.
We'll kick things off with a short overview, then we'll jump into a performance, finally, we'll break it all down in detail.
Essential Right Hand Techniques
So we got the basics outta the way with our left hand so now let's talk about our right hand and how we should be approaching the slide itself. We'll kick things off with a short overview, then we'll jump into a performance, finally, we'll break it all down in detail.
Right Hand Jam
So we got the basics outta the way with our left hand so now let's talk about our right hand and how we should be approaching the slide itself. We'll kick things off with a short overview, then we'll jump into a performance, finally, we'll break it all down in detail.
+ 35 more lessons
Reviews
6 results
JThomasRanken
Verified buyer
06/12/25
I have been playing slide for a while, but am mostly self -taught. This was a great series for me as it helped me with some of the techniques of which I was relatively ignorant. So, my slide playing got better immediately. The course focuses on standard tuning slide playing. Recommended if you want to get to the next level of lead slide playing. Relative, to the other course I went through (electric blues with Eric Madis--also outstanding), this course was shorter and easier.
BDHerndon
Verified buyer
01/23/25
Good Instruction and a lot of fun
This course answers all the questions I have had about slide guitar, and It's a lot of fun moving forward through this detailed instruction. I love it.
fistipumps
Verified buyer
01/01/25
Thank you Ariel!
Ariel Posen is a master of subtlety and composition, and certainly my favorite slide player. It’s such a blessing that he happens to be an outstanding teacher as well.
briandelaney
Verified buyer
09/02/23
My first foray into slide guitar...
... and I couldn't have asked for a better instructor to guide me through the battle. Having real fun with this one.
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