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Slide Guitar Basics Book - For Beginner slide guitar players

Finally, a complete slide guitar beginner book that covers ALL of the basics, in one resource.
Slide Guitar Basics Book SLIDE GUITAR BASICS
Easy to Play Excercises and Songs in Open G Tuning!
   * Proper slide techniques explained for total beginners, with tableture notation.
   * How to play accompaniment, melodies, leads and scales.
   * A completely different approach from anything else on the market.

   * NOT JUST 12 BAR BLUES. Songs in multiple keys and styles!
   * Free support videos on YouTube for all lesson materials.
   * Over 120 Pages - Dozens of Playable, Presentable Songs
   * Written by the editor of SlideGuitarZ2A.com

      - Publication is scheduled for April 2026.

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

 

Chapter 1 - INTRODUCTION TO SLIDE GUITAR

·         Our Approach to Slide Guitar

·         Gear - No Right, No Wrong!

·         About This Book and Slide Guitar

Chapter 2 – INTRODUCTORY EXCERCISES

·         About “Open G” Guitar Tuning

·         Introductory Exercise #1 – The Slam Bam Blues!

·         Fretted Guitar vs. Slide Guitar

·         Noise Control!

·         Navigating The Fretboard

Chapter 3FIRST SLIDE EXCERCISES & SONGS

·         One Note Slides, Basic Fingerpicking, and Vibrato

Chapter 4 – PLAYING MELODIES WITH SLIDE GUITAR

·         Amazing Grace

·         Saints Go Marching In

·         Hard Times Come Again No More

 

Chapter 5 – ACCOMPANIMENT WITH SLIDE GUITAR

·         A Song in the Key of G – “Old Tyme Country”

·         A Song in the Key of D – “Country Walk”

·         A Song in the Key of C – “Candyman”

·         A Song in the Key of G – “Old School Boogie”

·         A Song in the Key of A – “Elmore’s Shuffle”

·         Minor Chord Strategies in Open G Tuning

 

Chapter 6 - SCALES IN THE KEY OF G - OPEN TUNING

·         G Major Pentatonic Scale (5 notes)

·         G Major Diatonic Scale (7 notes)

·         G Minor Pentatonic Scale (5 notes)

 

Chapter 7 – LEAD GUITAR BASICS

·         G Major Pentatonic Lead Guitar

·         G Major Diatonic Lead Guitar

·         G Minor Pentatonic Lead Guitar


Chapter 8 –
MORE SONGS TO PLAY

·         “Bar Room Woman”

·         “eLevated”

·         “Three Quarters”

·         “The Pulse”

·         “Slyd-E”

·         “Invasion Blues”

 

Chapter 9 – NOTES, RESOURCES AND MORE

·         Supporting Videos and Recordings Links

·         More Online Resources

The also book includes:

* YouTube videos for each lesson:



* TABLATURE with Standard Notation:



* Detailed advice for each lesson:



* Detailed advice for NOISE CONTROL!!!


SLIDE GUITAR BASICS
      - Publication is scheduled for April 2026.

        Please join our Newsletter Mailing List to be notified upon release.


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