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Lesson of the Day: A Slide Guitar Tutorial You Won't Soon Forget

03.13.2008

Duane AllmanFace it, playing good slide guitar takes a ton of practice. There's no way around it. And if you don't start with the right technique and technical approach, it can be quite a frustrating experience.

Great slide players like Duane Allman, Derek Trucks, and Joe Walsh can make it sound so simple. Their expressive style is legendary. But the one underlying current in all their work is their attention to the basic technical elements of the style, something that's hard to pick up just from listening to them play their music.

Guitar teacher John Tuggle from LearningGuitarNow.com can help you pick up and learn those subtle techniques. In today's lesson, Tuggle takes his John W. Tuggle"never stop learning" attitude and puts it to work in showing us the basics of playing slide guitar in open E, drawing from all the masters mentioned above. He effectively combines elements of both rock and blues with his classical technical approach to show us some techniques and excercises that can help us achieve success in playing slide guitar.

If' you've been wanting to brush up your slide guitar skills, or even get a good basis to begin practicing the craft, then you don't want to miss this very important lesson. Click here for today's lesson.

And please don't forget to check back tomorrow for another incredible lesson from Gibson Lifestyle!—Gabriel J. Hernandez