AngelSPA
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12/21/24
Great course from a great instructor
I've heard a lot of blues slide guitar, but never played it. This is a great course not only for learn how to play, but also the history of that music.
Slide Guitar (JamPlay)
Master the Art of Slide with One of the Most In-Depth Courses Ever Created
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Stuart Ziff
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About this course
Whether you're new to slide guitar or looking to sharpen your skills, Stuart Ziff’s Slide Guitar course offers one of the most comprehensive explorations of the style available anywhere. Across 39 detailed lessons, you’ll learn the essential tools, techniques, tunings, and expressive nuances that define slide playing—from setup and damping to pitch control and vibrato.
Stuart walks you through the legendary styles of Elmore James, Son House, Robert Johnson, Muddy Waters, Duane Allman, Ry Cooder, and more, analyzing their rhythms, phrasing, and tone to help you unlock your own voice on the slide. You'll study both electric and acoustic approaches, improvise in open tunings, and even explore slide playing outside the blues.
If you're serious about learning slide guitar, this course is your roadmap to authentic tone, soulful expression, and next-level technique.
Stuart walks you through the legendary styles of Elmore James, Son House, Robert Johnson, Muddy Waters, Duane Allman, Ry Cooder, and more, analyzing their rhythms, phrasing, and tone to help you unlock your own voice on the slide. You'll study both electric and acoustic approaches, improvise in open tunings, and even explore slide playing outside the blues.
If you're serious about learning slide guitar, this course is your roadmap to authentic tone, soulful expression, and next-level technique.
What you'll learn
- Execute a Son House-style 12-bar blues progression with slide
- Combine dominant and minor pentatonic sounds in slide playing
- Play the intro to Statesboro Blues in the style of Duane Allman
- Play in stop-time rhythm format
- Apply call and response phrasing over blues changes
Release date: 05/17/2017 • 6h 57m runtime
Sample lessons
Simple Slide Riff
Simple Slide Riff
The Style of Elmore James
Elmore James Foundation
Elmore James Soloing
Elmore James Soloing
Acoustic Style of Robert Johnson
Robert Johnson
What's included
39 lessons • 34 charts • 25 Jam Tracks
Slide Guitar Series Introduction
This series by Stuart Ziff is one of the most comprehensive looks at all of the ins and outs of Slide Guitar playing you'll find anywhere. Once Stuart gets your tools and gear whipped into shape, he'll dive into the styles of some of the most influential Slide players in history and inspire you to start or improve your Slide skills with all of the great included examples and backing tracks.
Tools of the Trade - Guitar
Should you use your trusty multi-purpose axe for slide or should you dedicate a specific guitar in your collection for the task? How should it be set up? What about string gauge? Stuart covers all this and more in this must watch lesson!
Tools of the Trade - Slides
Stuart will go through many different types of slides and discuss why there is such a great variety. You'll learn what each slide in the arsenal is best at, and what to watch out for when selecting your slide.
Fingers & Picks
Slide players are all of the map when it comes to using their fingers or picks to get certain sounds or play certain lines. You'll get a great look at the basics of playing with a pick as well as fingers when it comes to dialing in the slide sound for a particular situation.
Pitch & Intonation
Getting just the right 'in tune' or 'slightly out of tune' sound is an art when it comes to playing Slide Guitar. Stuart goes in deep in demonstrating what proper pitch control looks like and sounds like!
Damping & Muting
One of the most important aspects of slide playing (and any playing for that matter) is how you mute the strings you don't want to hear. Slide guitar presents some interesting challenges in this area and Stuart is all over it!
Playing Simple Chords
Playing chords is such an art with slide guitar. This lesson is one of many that will shed light on this challenging aspect of this style. There are many great ways to play chords, and some nice little touches that Stuart will introduce throughout this series.
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Reviews
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Kieran
10/28/24
Very comprehensive and rich in detail
I would highly recommend this course, it is very well structured and provides a wealth of information and practical detail and uses. I think it would suit intermediate players or just people with general guitar knowledge. I found that this course really changed my perspective on playing slide. The instructor really knows his stuff and he takes pains to give examples of everything. He goes into detail on many famous slide guitarists and to be honest even just the parts on Elmore James and Duane Allman would make this course well worth while. I think that for me this course may have been the best I have used on Truefire
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