SLIDE LESSON PART 3
This part of the lesson includes some tabs of blues licks for slide.
You
may have to edit the tabs so that the string names are on the left side
of the page. Import or copy/paste this file into Wordpad of a
word-processing program if needed. If you line them up, then the rest
of
the tabbed notes should be in the right order. You may need to add or
delete hyphens (---) to keep everything in the right order, with the
string names lined up, etc.
These are blues turnaround-type licks. They are all written for Open-E.
NOTE: / = slide up \ = slide down ~~~ = vibrato
E-------------------------------------------------
B----/17--\15\14\13\12----12/13/14/15~~~----------
G#---------------------/12------------------------
E-------------------------------------------------
B-------------------------------------------------
E6------------------------------------------------
E-------------------------------------------------
B-0-3/5~~\3-0-------------------------------------
G#------------------------------------------------
E-------------4/5-4/5-4---------------------------
B----------------------4/5------------------------
E6------------------------------------------------
E-------------------------------------------------
B-------------------------------------------------
G#--------12------11------10-----------------12~~~
E--------------------------------------------12~~~
B----11/12---12\11---11\10---10\9---8/9--/12------
E6------------------------------------------------
THIS NEXT LICK REALLY MAKES USE OF THE OPEN-E TUNING,
WITH DOUBLE-STOPS ON THE E & B AND THE E AND G#
STRINGS. TRY TO IMITATE A HARMONICA .
E------12-----------------------------------------
B---10/12--12\11-12\11~~--------------------------
G#----------------------11/12---------------------
E--------------------------12~~~------------------
B-------------------------------------------------
E-------------------------------------------------
THE NEXT ONES ARE DUANE ALLMAN LICKS
E-------------------------------------------------
B--/7---/7----------------------------------------
G#-----7----5\4---7-/7-------/10----/10\8---------
E---------------7---/7---10\-----10---------------
B-------------------------------------------------
E-------------------------------------------------
E-------------------------------------------------
B-------------------------------------------------
G#------------------------------------------------
E--/8------------------8-------8------------------
B------10----10\--/10-----10----------------------
E-------------------------------------------------
C CHORD
E-------------------------------------------------
B-------8---8\7---7/8~~-8\-----8---8\6------------
G#--------8-----7----------------8-----6/8--------
E---/8---------------------/8--------------8------
B-------------------------------------------------
E-------------------------------------------------
CONT'D
F CHORD
E-------------------------------------------------
B-------------------------------------------------
G#------------------------------------------------
E-------------------------------------------------
B-----8\---/10----10-/slow slide 11--11\8~~~~~~~~~
E-------------------------------------------------
HHGI (www.hhgi.com) is Howard Hart. He sells a Pocket
lesson for
slide, but it tabs everything for standard tuning. I
re-tabbed them to open-E for my usage, you could do
the same.
There are instructional videos, with Warren Haynes
(Allman Bros Band) and also Arlen Roth's video are
recommended. You can also buy at least one book,
which includes a slide, and I guess licks or solos.
Update 8/3/00
Recently I wanted to play some slide, and I was playing a guitar in
standard tuning. I just dropped the High-E string down to D, and played
on the top 4 strings. This gave me the D-G-B-D of the open-G chord, or
the same relationship at any fret. I don't usually play much slide on
the
two low strings anyway. It was a quick-and-dirty way to re-tune for
slide. Note that this gives more of a country or delta-blues sound than
open-E tuning, but for practice, it makes for a good compromise.
Another new item: I highly recommend the imported British magazine/CD
called Guitar Techniques. Occasionally, they include slide lessons,
such
as Rocky Mountain Way by Joe Walsh, a Muddy Waters blues song, and a
song
in the style of LeRoy Parnell, a great country slide player influenced
by
Duane Allman.
Ernie Lambert's TEXAS GUITAR PAGE:
http://www.geocities.com/SunsetStrip/Vine/3069
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