Blue Monday Livestreams - Improving slide playing - faster? Live blues backups

In today's livestream:
How do we know if the process of learning takes up the time it needs... and not more?
How do we know if we're on the right path?
Are there things to have in mind while playing, practicing?
Let's discuss, and I'll be showing some examples to my best abilities...

Lick Of The Week
Open D folks, we'll continue where we stopped couple of livestreams ago, building a nice melody and chords played with slide.

Slide Challenge (if there's time):
Blues Stay Away From Me - in Open D.
I usually play this song in standard tuning so let's see if I can come up with an arrangement in this tuning.

Live Blues Backups as usual, Q & A's.....

Prior to watching my Blue Monday Livestreams every Monday at 9pm CEST which is:
12pm PST / 2pm CST / 3pm EST / 8pm GMT (London) / 7am AEDT (Sidney), watch this video:

- I'm explaining here how to tune your guitar to Open G and Open D tunings
- Learn the basics of fingerpicking technique - alternate bass playing
- Learn the basics of slide technique

This video is very basic and I'll be uploading more detailed content about each of the techniques mentioned later on. The topics in this video are meant to prepare you for my livestreams where I'm using standard tuning, Open G, Open D, I'm playing slide and fingerpicking.
The whole idea of BLUE MONDAY Livestreams is to provide solid and professional live backup to your soloing, maybe just hanging with my rhythm, chord shapes and learning as we go.
I'll always be explaining what and how I played, there are several sections during the one hour livestream:
- Solid backup for your guitar playing (in every livestream)
- Artist in focus (in selected livestreams)
- Lick Of The Week (explained in detail)
- Special guests (in selected livestreams)
- Q&A

Blue Monday Livestreams:

Most of the guitars Homesick Mac is playing are made by the master luthier Michael Sandén:

Homesick Mac's slides made by:

Recommended (affiliate link):
Homesick Mac (Dragan Ruzic - Macan) is an acoustic (for the most part) guitarist and singer born in former Yugoslavia, now living in Sweden.
I run annual Guitar Retreats for "non-guitarists" at the island of Ven in southern Sweden.
(Please observe that the dates aren't accurate due to the web hosting problem - the general info about the Retreat is correct though)

[milovanbeljin]

Macane, I absolutely love the opening song! I found your CD "Leaving" in my CD collection and guess what - you sent me the CD in 2003! Thank you for 20 years of our on-line friendship!