THIS Is How You Play Slide Guitar

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Thanks to @dylanadamsguitar for schooling me on some standard tuning slide guitar, looking back this is probably how I should have learned slide to begin with. Its amazing how he's able to get all of the classic slide licks and ideas while also having a unique approach and his own voice, and playing in standard tuning is a part of that!

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0:00 Intro

0:00 Intro Jam
1:09 Dylan's Slide Approach
2:10 Part I Classic Licks
9:17 Scale Shapes
13:33 Diagonal Pentatonics

[dylanadamsguitar]

Thanks so much for having me Rhett, had a great time talking about some standard tuning slide! 🤘🏻

[Timtime]

The tone he's getting is THE sound. Of course it's his technical mastery. But I now feel a craving for a junior. His touch is everything don't kid yourself.

[brendanxtrom]

This is how I’ve always played. Standard tuning slide on the pinky finger. The one real difference in our playing is that I’m not very good.

[UrbanGarden-rfop]

Bought the course yesterday.
A very wise move.
Dylan is a great educator.
He gives a thorough and clear presentation
without dumbing it down.
Only problem is that I keep looking 
for the like button and the comment field.
So I'llI have to do that here:
👍👍👍👍👍 😎
Kudos to Rhett for helping him spread the message.
✌✌

[HomesickMac]

Great great playing both of you. I've been playing slide for 45 years and it's such a joy to see you younger folks being so good at explaining the physics of melody shapes and slide playing technique. Cool when Rhett just slightly touched the chords behind Dylan's explanations, gave it a nice harmonic context for everything. Thanks guys!

[DarnellColeMusic]

As someone who's been dabbling in Slide in standard for s little while now, this was ridiculously helpful

[tdz]

Dylan is one of the best YouTube finds I have come across. He belongs on major stages around the world doing his thing. He also seems like a really humble and down to earth guy. Someone you want to root for. Get em brother. You are a beast.

[piktormusic]

Strangely, I came to learning slide via an unlikely path. I am a keyboard player who got turned on John McLaughlin in the seventies, which led to an obsession with Jan Hammer and pitch bending on synth, which led back to guitarists. As you point out in this video, the slide gives you great expressive opportunities to play with pitches in beautiful ways. For me, it is almost like one of those new midi synth controllers that let the player do things that are hard to do on fixed fret/fixed keyboard instruments.

Dylan sounds great and, since I play slide only in standard tuning, he has reinforced the route that chose long ago. Very inspiring. Thanks to you both.

[sundaynightdrunk]

Dylan seems to be a great teacher and genuinely humble guy for someone so talented. Always avoided slide because the songs I'm playing are mostly standard tuning, but it would be cool to be able to use it in soloing.

[dalejones]

I love when you bring Dylan on. Great video

[abick]

Kudos Rhett on your willingness and efforts at helping to promote other musicians that your audience (not sure if that’s the correct term anymore) can benefit from learning from. I didn’t play for about ten years and, after picking it back up in a new world where learning new avenues of playing are literally at your fingertips whenever you want it, the content you’re producing is a true blessing. I have gotten so much from this channel, combined with your website, and I’m about to check out the link you provided for Dylan. For those of us that aren’t as familiar with the Nashville and/or Atlanta music scenes, exposing the world of music to the quality of musicians such as yourself and those you present on your channel is nothing short of priceless!

[mikeyalvarez]

Life changing video 🙌🏼 slide has never clicked for me until watching this. I’m a whole new world now! Subscribed 🎉

[rehkram]

Great video, thanks Rhett & Dylan. I've attempted this in the past, time to get back to working on it.

[DonaldMerand]

This was great! Very usable, relatively uncomplicated shapes. The practice suggestions (e.g. "try playing a drone alongside" or "come up with a lick without the slide and then learn it with the slide") are actionable enough that I'm gonna try them next time I pick up my guitar. Thank you for this!.

[picksalot]

Excellent, insightful approach to making Slide Guitar playable while still in Standard Tuning. Thanks

[createlovehappy]

I learned in a modified open G because the wood bodied duolian Dobro came with this tuning when I got it. Sounded like a cross between Sun House and Keith Richards. Can’t wait to try all this in standard. Thanks. I love how in standard you have all the major triads on the dgb strings and minor triads on the gbe strings. Melody is all about the triads for me. Well done guys

[scorpionsaloon]

Dylan sure makes it look easy. Great playing guys !

[ronrumsey]

Thanks, guys! Not enough gets said about standard tuning slide. Well done!

[zummo]

I started playing slide way back in 1975. First in standard tuning, then in open E and G and finally in open C. Standard tuning is the most flexible if you put the slide on your ring finger and you can fret behind it and get the best of both worlds, using the slide more as an accent/vibrato while not fearing out of tune notes in runs. Open tunings lend themselves to idiomatic riffs associated with each tuning.

[precisionbrown]

I really admire you guys with the slide. I’ve been playing guitar and bass almost 40 years and I stink when slide. I stink on guitar too but I tried 😊