Open e tuning is the same as open d tuning only a whole step higher, the same chord shapes work in both tunings only a whole step higher. This tuning was made famous by elmore james, and is commonly used amongst many slide guitar players. Slide guitar can present players with a myriad of reasons not to get started. Some tunings are named for the chord that is sounded when the open strings are played open g, d minor. I much prefer using open d and putting a capo at the 2nd fret, but for some songs you wanna be in open e anyways. But what ill be doing in this lesson is staying in standard tuning throughout.
You can play a full six strings of harmonics at the 12th, 7th and 5th frets. Eric clapton, when asked about his own slide playing in his august 76 guitar. New greg koch lessons on slide guitar in standard tuning. A fasttrack learning program for standard tuning slide guitar. It typically involves playing the guitar in the traditional position flat against the body with the use of a tubular. Openg tuning is a different way of tuning the strings of a guitar.
The open g tuning spanish tuning is a guitar tuning in which the guitar is tuned to dgdgbd instead of the standard tuning eadgbe. This works well for many blues slide licks because they require only slight movement of a couple of frets above or below to play an entire passage. He then either avoids the 6th string or leaves it off the guitar completely. To avoid this, ill first explain slide guitar on standard tuning, so all you need is a slide. Vic lewis looks at the basics of playing slide guitar in standard tuning, which is a great thing to know if youd prefer to not keep changing your tuning every other. Drop d is a popular tuning for slide guitar thats easy to tune. Standard tuning i 12 11 12 12 10 12 11 12 8 912 e 99 12 10 12 11 12 8 9 99 ex. Next to standard tuning drop d tuning is the most popular and is achieved by simply dropping the 6th string from an e down one whole tone to a d.
Slide guitar in standard tuning with andy aledort duration. Sonny landreth the ultimate slide guitar lesson youtube. Learning the various different methods to tune for slide guitar will give you more options to let you suit the tunings to your playing style. Essentials to playing slide guitar in standard tuning guitar world. I found that mixing up the tuning, particularly to open e, gave me a lot of new life out of my guitar.
There are always more than one open tunings for a key. All three riffs are fairly common and jeff breaks them down and. Click here to download a printable pdf of this lessons notation. You should be aware of that this tuning put some extra pressure on the guitar.
Open d tuning is not to be confused with drop d tuning. I havent delved into the actual mechanics of playing slide guitar because, for the most part, the techniques are pretty much the same as for playing slide in any tuning. Playing slide guitar in standard tuning guitar noise. Who says openg tuning is better than standard tuning. May 18, 2018 for me, it just happened because i felt like standard tuning was getting a little bit stale for me. Slide guitar in standard tuning guitar tips from guthrie govan guitar. Jun 11, 2018 it seems like everyone is kinda mystified about how to play slide guitar in standard tuning.
Here is the main blues pattern duane used for his standard tuning slide work. All the free slide guitar lessons i have created to learn open g tuning, open e, and standard tuning. Open tunings are ideal for playing bottleneck or slide guitar, since you can place the slide at any fret and play a full six string chord. This is usually because theres an unpleasant learning curve when trying to play slide for the first time, most players produce a sound akin to a crying baby cat with digestive distress. A brief overview of basic slide playing in standard tuning.
Each video is accompanied by a lesson tab pdf file containing the instructional text and guitar tab from the book. When you retune your guitar, it is important that you turn the tuning pegs in a direction that decrease the string tension and not the opposite. Learn how to visualize chordscales in an open tuning. Below are five different types of open tunings open d, open c, open g, open a, and. In video podcast 57 learn how to play a standard tuning slide guitar lick in the style of warren.
For these examples, well focus on mostly roots and bluesstyle licks in standard tuning. Standard tuning eadgbe eric and duanes guitar beats everything open g. In this lesson, we will explore the use of open d tuning while playing with a slide. The term guitar tunings may refer to pitch sets other than standard tuning, also called nonstandard, alternative, or alternate. Heres how to tune your guitar to open d from standard tuning. As you can see, there are notes in the above alternate tuning that arent present in the collection of notes in standard tuning.
Some tunings are used for particular songs, and might be referred to by the songs title. How to get from standard tuning to vestapol tuning vestapol tuning is a generic name for all open tunings that emerge from tuning the guitar as if you were fretting an e major chord. Guitaralternate tunings wikibooks, open books for an open. The first slide lick comes at the end of the form, in the turnaround section of the blues. Most slide guitar instructions start like and now we use the open xyz tuning. Slide guitar is something many players have a desire to learn but can be reticent to dive into. The first decision is what kind of slide to use glass, metal or. Dont switch back and forth between the two styles instead, make them one. This tutorial will demonstrate how to play a clear and pitchperfect note, how to perform a major triad, and how to perform the cmajor. Slide guitar lesson open e tuning great for slide guitar. So unplug your guitar, put down your pick, and lets get started.
Some are named from an instrument that tunes in that same way charango, dobro, cittern. Mar 14, 2015 lessons chords digging deeper intermediate rock sound samples tab. The technique involves placing an object against the strings while playing to create glissando effects and deep vibratos. Standard tuning is used by most guitarists, and frequently used tunings can be understood as variations on standard tuning. This isnt actually the real way to play it since the goo goo dolls use all that alternate tuning, but its close enough. Sonny landreth the ultimate slide guitar lesson guitar world. Understand how keith richards creates his signature sound. In this lesson, well cover the main reason why you should learn slide guitar in standard tuning. Leave the fourth d and the fifth a strings as they are. Standard tuning can be easier to play because your melodic instincts dont have.
Slide guitar licks with derek trucks fundamental changes. Jan 07, 2016 sonny landreth the ultimate slide guitar lesson guitar world. Apr 18, 2019 a great way to get started with slide guitar is to play in standard tuning, which allows you to focus on all the essentials of frethand touch and pickhand articulation without having to address the issue of relearning the fretboard and chord forms in an alternate tuning. Open d is the same relative tuning, but every note would be down one tone from what is shown below. Slide guitar can be played in standard or open tunings, and each has its advantages and disadvantages. Jeff massey, slide guru from the steepwater band, continues his series on slide guitar with some blues riffs in e standard tuning. Similarly, harmonics sound wonderful in open tunings. Although it is possible to play some slide guitar in the standard tuning and this is a useful skill, slide guitar is best played in open tunings. Essentials to playing slide guitar in standard tuning. As we launch into these examples, its important to think of your slide finger as a normal finger with a slight extension that lets you emphasize legato lines. Theres modifications that need to be made to the guitar, string gauges need to be changed and then if thats not enough, you need to learn how to play in open tunings. The above video is a good example of a slide guitarist making a great sound come from a standard acoustic guitar not a resonator guitar. Trucks plays in open e pretty much exclusively, even when not using a slide.
The open d tuning is especially popular among guitar players who uses a slide, but it is also related to the folk genre. In this slide focused lesson, were going to talk about why you should consider learning slide guitar in standard tuning. Its pretty easy to get going, just tune strings 5 and 4 up one tone and string 3 up. Furthermore, like standard tuning, alternate tunings may also have one, two, or more identical notes but all in different octaves like you see with open c e. Learn how to play some standard tuning slide guitar licks in the key of g in this guitar lesson video. This gives you a g major chord if you strike or pluck the guitar without gripping it. Using an open g tuning and playing guitar like keith richards. Probably one of the most familiar examples of open e tuning is the beginning guitar part on the song jumpin jack flash by the rolling stones. Learning slide guitar in standard tuning allows you to focus on frethand touch and pickhand articulation without having to relearn the. Slide guitar is a particular technique for playing the guitar that is often used in bluesstyle music. Slide guitar licks in standard tuning root 5 e mixolydian with b3.
This information is also applicable to almost any open tuning. In his series speaking with the slide, world renown slide player ariel posen will guide you through slide scale positions in standard and open tuning, as well as teaching you to use such freeing techniques as playing behind the slide that will open a world of. Why you should learn slide guitar in standard tuning. Sometimes playing your guitar in standard tuning just isnt enough. Jun 29, 2018 this is how everyone learns when they are starting out on guitar and this is the tuning that most guitar songs are written in. Dgdgbd the most common slide tuning, ecs favorite dobro tuning.
Richards favors the use of an open g tuning, which detunes the 1st, 5th, and 6th strings one whole step. Simply put, an open tuning is when your guitar is tuned so that strumming all the strings without holding any of them down on the fretboard will produce a chord. It felt like my hands were going to the same place all the time on the guitar and just playing the same songs over and over again. The strings from 6th to 1st are tuned e, a, d, g, b, e. That way, you dont need to be retuning your guitar every five minutes just to show. When playing particular music types, its often easier to tune your guitar so that chords are played instead of individual notes. The definitive list of alternate guitar tunings musician tuts. Many of these can be easily adjusted to play in standard tuning. This is by no means an exhaustive guide to playing slide in standard tuning. The open e tuning is a rather popular alternative for guitar slide players, but can work as a way to find new song ideas regardless of the style. Slide guitar licks in standard tuning guitar heroes. First thing, you must tune your guitar strings down to match the open d tuning.
Designed to fit in your guitar case, slide rules includes over 70 of the most popular and useful tunings for acoustic and electric lap steel guitar, bottleneck slide guitar, resophonic guitar, weissenborn and hindustani slide guitar as used by the greatest players of the past and present. Never tune a string above standard tuning, at least with an acoustic guitar and heavy strings. Warren haynes on slide guitar in standard tuning reverb. Dec 01, 2018 many guitar players use alternate tunings, which differ from standard tuning. You just drop the low e 6th string one whole step from e to d. That means you can forget what you know about the fretboard and forget both your left and right hand techniques. Open e tuning has the same signature interval stack as open d, only a whole step higher, as if you placed a capo at the second fret in open d tuning, and its open strings give you what would normally be a firstposition e chord in standard tuning, as shown in figure 9. Plus well cover a slinky slide lick in g to get you started on your way. In this slide guitar lesson, im going to break down a slide guitar lick that is played in standard tuning and can be used over any 12 bar blues progression. For players that are familiar with basic slide techniques.
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