New Slide Workshop
Published: Tue, 01/16/24
Also, in an ongoing effort to find focus in my own work, I've deferred to standard tuning, non-slide fingerstyle guitar for the past several years as well. Heck, I'd ditch my capo too, if I could figure out how to sing everything comfortably without one. One less thing to remember to bring to the gig!
And yet, slide remains the single most-requested topic people ask for, both inside the membership and on my channel. And it's something I have spent many years learning, playing and teaching. So for some time now, I've been thinking about a practical way to teach slide in a stand-alone, workshop format.
The Reliable Source workshops have been a really fun way to present classes on comping and single-note soloing, but I want to keep that a distinctly non-fingerstyle avenue for future swing- and jazz-related workshops. And attempting to fold an entire subject like slide into the Fingerstyle Five would likely result in my teaching neither slide or the existing standard-tuning material as thoroughly as possible.
So this month, I'm launching a new series called Lexiconfidential – occasional workshops dedicated to significant fingerstyle topics that fall outside the parameters of either the Reliable Source series or the Fingerstyle Five.
The first workshop in this series will be Slide Foundations, an introduction to fingerstyle slide guitar. In this two-hour live streamed class, you'll learn
- The essential open-position voicings and blues scales you need to get up and running quickly in open D tuning,
- Basic slide technique and how to get a clean sound, and
- How to combine open-position chords and licks with slide melodies up the neck, all over an alternating-thumb groove.
Slide Foundations
More soon,
David