Acoustic Guitar Slide Basics
- Price $17.99
- By David Hamburger
- Book/CD
- Published by String Letter Publishing
Description
Bitten by the blues bug? If you have always wanted to explore the haunting sounds of acoustic slide guitar, or are looking to brush up on your bottleneck basics, this easy-to-follow, step-by-step CD lesson book will have you well on your way to mastering one of the great styles of American roots music. David Hamburger, a master teacher, sideman, and solo performer specializing in slide and Dobro, is uniquely qualified to offer you these nine progressive lessons on the fundamentals of acoustic slide guitar.
Reviews and Testimonials
"Hamburger's text is one of the most thoughtfully written. ...All the way around, this book's a winner." —Guitar Player
Contents
GETTING STARTED
- Guitars, Slides, and Tunings
- Single-String Melodies
- Working in the Thumb
MOVING AROUND THE NECK
- Open-G Tuning and Closed Position
- Spicing Up Your Melodies
- Shuffling in D
MORE TOOLS AND TECHNIQUES
- Travis Picking
- Pull-offs, Hammer-ons, and Blue Notes
- Turnarounds and Moving Bass Lines
SONGS
- Cucina Blues
- Steady Now
- Offbeat Blues
- From Twelve to Seven
- Transposin' and Tumblin'
- Three-Note Jump
- Two-Chord Draw
- The Cover-up
- Better Late Than Never
- Slidin' and Frettin'
- Since I've Laid My Burden Down
- Blue Note Special
- Muddy's Blues
- Muddy's Blues #2
- Goin' Back to Clarksdale