Slide Guitar Lesson from the Sauce Boss O.K. Here are the chord charts for the tunings I use, but first a little explanation. I think of slide as being similar to Blues harp. With the harp, you either suck or blow for the chord and you bend the notes either up or down to get the other notes in the scale. With open tuning guitar, it's the same. You get the chord by strumming the guitar open or barring the chords with the slide and you get all the other notes in the scale by sliding up or down from that point. Mixing slide work with these fingered chords makes it easy to get a rhythm sound for accompaniment. D-Tuning Chart         G-Tuning Chart It's great for late night experimentation with your favorite guitar. Check out the slide work on MY ALBUMS These chord fingerings are simple and basic so it's easy to use bar chords in conjunction with them to get alternate fingerings for chords which are not on these charts. For example: In D tuning, bar behind the 5th fret to get a G chord. Putting the G fingering (see in D Tuning chart) in front of the bar gives you a C chord. I have found it. It's a heavy-duty bronze slide. Itís about 2 inches long, interior is 2 cm, the walls are 3mm, and it weighs about 4 oz. Plenty of weight for that syrupy vibrato. I have a few of 'em. If you slide guitar wannabes truly want to be, I would heartily recommend trying one. It really grabs the string, giving more sustain, and more sustain at a lower gain will open up that dynamic of low volume slide playing. 10 bucks each plus $2 for shipping gets it to your door. Give us a call at 1-850-997-4359

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