@@dylanadamsguitarA master will never say they've "mastered" their craft....just like there is no such thing as "perfection". Thanks, Dylan, for this channel... it's truly one of my favs! Have you considered developing slide courses for purchase, versus just private lessons? I'm sure many of us would purchase those courses...jus' sayin'. 😉 😊
And a few things to remember. If you play a "wrong" note, you are never more than 1 step away (up or down) from a good note. So listen and slide into the good note like you meant it. The corollary to that is: There are no bad notes. All that matters is timing, where you came from, and where you are going. Any note can add spice as a passing tone. As far as chords go, there is a lot more stuff you can do (and I'm sure you do it - I hope you visit these ideas in future vids). Skipping strings, angling the slide (kind of hard to do using a pink slide, but certainly possible high up the neck), behind the slide voicings ... Looking forward to more episodes!
Just recently discovered your channel and I am digging what you’re teaching. You have an amazing sound! I’m currently a student at the Atlanta Institute of Music. The owner actually played some your music bc he knows I like the slide. Pretty cool! I like hearing you speak w/ a theoretical approach too bc it is the language of music. Thanks for your insight!
Thank you so much for doing slide videos!!! You have helped me so much and your playing style seems so different from every body else’s I CANT GET ENOUGH!!! Keep grinding brotha😎
Thank you for your generosity. Sharing your time and energy to teach the world is truly noble. Greeting from an English rhythm and blues player who is now going to up his game using slide!
Listening to your playing inspired me to learn slide in standard tuning, even though I am primarily a bass player. This is really making it easier to play in other keys and take advantage of what I already know how to do. While I love the sound of open tunings, partially because I think acoustic guitars sound great when you drop the strings down a whole step (like in open D), I find that I don't have a great chord voicing vocabulary in the open tunings which makes it hard to play things other than 3 chord songs or include more of the jazz vocabulary chord types. You pretty much said there are no shortcuts and at some point, either by ear or a combination of ear and simple music theory you end up learning the rudimentary scales. If you want to venture outside of 3 chord blues or 2 chord jam songs I'd say it's even more important to spend time expanding your knowledge. I like the idea of single string playing. That's very common on upright bass too, especially higher up on the fretboard. Where I find a lot of mileage is working scale fragments on adjacent string pairs. Even if the lick is mainly done on one string the interval jump of using that adjacent string sometimes works out better than doing it on one string and making long leaps. It also makes it easier to add triads. Looking forward to seeing how you do behind the slide fingerings for chords
I think you’re the second best slide guitarist out there today..! I appreciate the lessons… but I don’t know why you spent so much time on basic fretboard theory..? Every nugget you can share about slide is gold..! But I would have rather learned more about slide than that basic stuff.. Thanks man.! Looking forward to more lessons…. about S L I D E…😩👍🏼❤️
Also found you through Rhett Schull. I’m learning to play slide guitar thanks to you. I’m still working on the basics but am interested in learning more about combining fretting with slide. Can’t wait to see you perform with Derek Trucks - it will happen once he discovers you!
Great stuff Dylan , have been playin mostly standard and i like the way you do the scales from bottom to high notes.. I saw Derek in Quebec at a bar where i use to play , it was in the 90's ..Already a slide champion , he was touring with a cool band and his father was managing , i think he was 13 then ..I still have the T shirt I bought at that gig ... Thx for this , you re the man.... Cheers .. Rick!!
Hey, man! I discovered your videos today, and you're awesome! I've been wanting to learn to play slide for years, but I never got the hang of it because I spent all my time looking for that one "secret" that would help me sound like the pros. And today, funny enough, I discovered that secret with you: it's just straight-up, cold, hard practice, no shortcuts, no BS. As soon as that clicked in my head today, I went and got my slide out of my gig bag and started learning Beware of Darkness by George Harrison (my slide guitar idol), and at first I wanted to learn the slide solo, then the licks, and I just ended up learning all that and also the vocal melody by ear. That's something I'd recommend because it forces you to listen to what you're playing and not just look at the fretboard and think of scales and pentatonic boxes. By the way, could you maybe make a video on how to make your slide hand faster? Because I try to do flourishes or grace notes but my hand just doesn't move that fast Keep up the vids!!
Dylan, it just dawned on me. Ive had a copy of The Advancing Guitarist for a number of years but have yet to dedicate time to it. Now i will... with slide! Just got my rock slide and now see why the small works after having an xl glass slide before. What better way to get me out of vertical shape thinking in standard than studying that book and you! My old ass dad band wont know what hit them!
One thing you hit on a little here, going up the neck specially. I have found because of parallax (the angle I see the slide at, further down the fretboard toward the nut as opposed to when I’m up at the 12th fret) tends to mess me up a little. But this is good because I only use the fret as a sort of guide, but I have to use only my ears to actually stop at the right spot. Also good because unlike my bad habit of looking at my hands too often when I play without slide, I tend to glance at my left hand and once near use my ears. This makes me also realize I have an even easier time just fretting, once I get to the position I want…don’t really need to look at my left hand as I play without slide…it’s just a bad habit. Another great video, thanks!
Looking forward to the fretting behind the slide video. I’m a middle finger player so idk if I’ll have the courage to turn my world upside down and go for the pinky but I am curious about how string height and the balance between tension and relaxation go into keeping a clean sound between fretted notes and slide. Great video!
Great video again! May i suggest you to go thought your setup on the guitar - i think some (like me) will be interested. As i said before, you can make it into more detailed video (a.k.a longer), and i am happy to pay for the great lesson! Looking forward to the next lesson! (If any)
I have a video called “Should You Set Up Your Guitar For Slide?” where I go in detail about my setup measurements and thinking behind setting up my guitars!
First of all, Thank you for sharing your knowledge! I’m 72 now and been playing since age 6 and still obsessed with tone. Could you please explain your take on tone and not only amp settings but settings with tone & volume pots on the Guitar? Thanks again!
Hi Dylan. Just started listening to your vids. Great! One thing; I see that you (and everyone else as you've said) finger picks with the right hand. As a long time flat picker I'm trying to change over. You've stated to use fingers only but I've never seen anywhere where you explained HOW. How do you do it!? Is there a lesson where you go over HOW you finger pick, or if not, could you then do a video where you do go into some further depth on that? Thanks!
Thank You I found this very informative and helpful, and I've been playing slide for over 30 yrs. I know Duane played with his fingers and many other great slide players do as well, I personally go back and forth but I noticed you are using your fingers, do you feel that's important to the sound your going for?
Pro tipp: Don’t memorize scales like complicated passwords. This will only confuse you and hold you back while playing. Use your ear instead. With time you will HEAR where the next tone of the scale is located instate of seeing it. This is so much easier and also much more intuitive/natural since hearing is what music is all about. No need to translate a visual concept on to an acoustic one, just cut the middleman. Once you will master hearing the notes before you play them, this technique will unleash your playing, with or without bottleneck.
I need to make a video series about playing fretted guitar in open major tunings because the things I’ve been finding ever since I made that switch are awesome.
Hi Dylan Awesome stuff great tone! A request to show just a couple licks to start using fingers behind the slide to play fretted notes. Do you lift the slide totally off the strings or just angle it to allow fretted notes to sound or both angle and lift?
Have you ever tried to play bebop lines ? I feel like slide isn't really compatible with chromatic lines etc. Great lessons, really inspired me to dive into the slide cosmos.
Is there anywhere you have these instrumental tracks you make posted online to listen to? Both the backing music and the slide playing are fire. Using Superior Drummer virtual drums?
Not currently, but that is something I plan on doing in the near future! The drum grooves are played/programmed by me with Logic Pro software instrument kit I made
@@dylanadamsguitar I’d like to get that exact one…been trying n their site and there are a million different ones…do you remember the exact model and the specific size…if you do thanks in advance !
@@nationalduo4945 it’s the Small Polished Brass model TRS-SB, 17.5mm x 47.5mm. The important thing though is to get the size that fits your finger best! I have skinny fingers and the small fits me well, just barely snug with a slight amount of wiggle room
![Slide Guitar: Fretting Behind The Slide [Lesson]](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/neC_Ig9t2PI/mqdefault.jpg)
I have so much respect for people who master their craft and take the time to teach others. Thank you so much for these lessons!
I wouldn’t say I’ve mastered my craft, still working on it and always will be. But I’m happy to share what I know, and I appreciate the kind words!
@@dylanadamsguitarA master will never say they've "mastered" their craft....just like there is no such thing as "perfection". Thanks, Dylan, for this channel... it's truly one of my favs! Have you considered developing slide courses for purchase, versus just private lessons? I'm sure many of us would purchase those courses...jus' sayin'. 😉 😊
And a few things to remember. If you play a "wrong" note, you are never more than 1 step away (up or down) from a good note. So listen and slide into the good note like you meant it. The corollary to that is: There are no bad notes. All that matters is timing, where you came from, and where you are going. Any note can add spice as a passing tone. As far as chords go, there is a lot more stuff you can do (and I'm sure you do it - I hope you visit these ideas in future vids). Skipping strings, angling the slide (kind of hard to do using a pink slide, but certainly possible high up the neck), behind the slide voicings ... Looking forward to more episodes!
Nicely said
That tone in the intro is sick. I love it!
Your clear and concise breakdown of concepts is definitely helping this old dog learn some new tricks. Thank you!
Man, you made July 2023 issue of Vintage Guitar!! How cool is that?!
Thanks a lot for your great videos !! I'm in Slide-Playing a couple of month and there is so much input from you !! Best regards from Berlin / Germany
" I must create my own system or be imprisoned by another mans " William Blake .
Just recently discovered your channel and I am digging what you’re teaching. You have an amazing sound! I’m currently a student at the Atlanta Institute of Music. The owner actually played some your music bc he knows I like the slide. Pretty cool!
I like hearing you speak w/ a theoretical approach too bc it is the language of music. Thanks for your insight!
Thank you so much for doing slide videos!!! You have helped me so much and your playing style seems so different from every body else’s I CANT GET ENOUGH!!! Keep grinding brotha😎
This was a great lesson. Richly informative.
Hey Dylan,
Thanks for sharing.
I can't wait for your "play behind the slide" in standard tuning...
Be well,
Manuto
Thanks for watching, I’ll do a “fretting behind the slide” soon!
Mee too 😊
@@dylanadamsguitar Bro, PLEASE! That's what we're waiting for! You're awesome!
Thank you for your generosity. Sharing your time and energy to teach the world is truly noble.
Greeting from an English rhythm and blues player who is now going to up his game using slide!
I'm really glad I found you through Rhett. Been following since then, I have not yet applied slides on my playing but I have learned a LOT. \m/
I’m happy to hear that, I have much more to come!
Thanks!
Thanks so much!!
@@dylanadamsguitar \m/!
Thank you so much for sharing your experience honestly. It’s a relief to hear that someone else gets tunnel vision at times. You rock.
Started getting back into slide because of you. I like to keep my guitar in standard and never considered slide in standard until I watched you
Listening to your playing inspired me to learn slide in standard tuning, even though I am primarily a bass player. This is really making it easier to play in other keys and take advantage of what I already know how to do. While I love the sound of open tunings, partially because I think acoustic guitars sound great when you drop the strings down a whole step (like in open D), I find that I don't have a great chord voicing vocabulary in the open tunings which makes it hard to play things other than 3 chord songs or include more of the jazz vocabulary chord types. You pretty much said there are no shortcuts and at some point, either by ear or a combination of ear and simple music theory you end up learning the rudimentary scales. If you want to venture outside of 3 chord blues or 2 chord jam songs I'd say it's even more important to spend time expanding your knowledge. I like the idea of single string playing. That's very common on upright bass too, especially higher up on the fretboard. Where I find a lot of mileage is working scale fragments on adjacent string pairs. Even if the lick is mainly done on one string the interval jump of using that adjacent string sometimes works out better than doing it on one string and making long leaps. It also makes it easier to add triads. Looking forward to seeing how you do behind the slide fingerings for chords
Thank you for sharing your knowledge and approach. I learned some very helpful approaches that will help me quite a lot.
This was so useful, Dylan, you have no idea. Thank you SO much
Right on Dylan, thanks for keeping the gift of music ALIVE!
One of the best out there. Love your phrasing!
My man 🤙
I think you’re the second best slide guitarist out there today..!
I appreciate the lessons… but I don’t know why you spent so much time on basic fretboard theory..? Every nugget you can share about slide is gold..! But I would have rather learned more about slide than that basic stuff..
Thanks man.!
Looking forward to more lessons…. about S L I D E…😩👍🏼❤️
Also found you through Rhett Schull. I’m learning to play slide guitar thanks to you. I’m still working on the basics but am interested in learning more about combining fretting with slide. Can’t wait to see you perform with Derek Trucks - it will happen once he discovers you!
Great stuff Dylan , have been playin mostly standard and i like the way you do the scales from bottom to high notes.. I saw Derek in Quebec at a bar where i use to play , it was in the 90's ..Already a slide champion , he was touring with a cool band and his father was managing , i think he was 13 then ..I still have the T shirt I bought at that gig ... Thx for this , you re the man.... Cheers .. Rick!!
nice. thx for makin & sharing vids of helpful skilled content👍
Hey, man! I discovered your videos today, and you're awesome!
I've been wanting to learn to play slide for years, but I never got the hang of it because I spent all my time looking for that one "secret" that would help me sound like the pros. And today, funny enough, I discovered that secret with you: it's just straight-up, cold, hard practice, no shortcuts, no BS.
As soon as that clicked in my head today, I went and got my slide out of my gig bag and started learning Beware of Darkness by George Harrison (my slide guitar idol), and at first I wanted to learn the slide solo, then the licks, and I just ended up learning all that and also the vocal melody by ear. That's something I'd recommend because it forces you to listen to what you're playing and not just look at the fretboard and think of scales and pentatonic boxes.
By the way, could you maybe make a video on how to make your slide hand faster? Because I try to do flourishes or grace notes but my hand just doesn't move that fast
Keep up the vids!!
Dylan, it just dawned on me. Ive had a copy of The Advancing Guitarist for a number of years but have yet to dedicate time to it. Now i will... with slide! Just got my rock slide and now see why the small works after having an xl glass slide before. What better way to get me out of vertical shape thinking in standard than studying that book and you! My old ass dad band wont know what hit them!
Great video. And I love that almost all of this still absolutely applies to open tuning too.
Thanks for this lesson buddy, very much enjoying playing slide in standard and this gave me some fresh ideas 👌🏻🙏🏻❤️
One thing you hit on a little here, going up the neck specially. I have found because of parallax (the angle I see the slide at, further down the fretboard toward the nut as opposed to when I’m up at the 12th fret) tends to mess me up a little. But this is good because I only use the fret as a sort of guide, but I have to use only my ears to actually stop at the right spot. Also good because unlike my bad habit of looking at my hands too often when I play without slide, I tend to glance at my left hand and once near use my ears. This makes me also realize I have an even easier time just fretting, once I get to the position I want…don’t really need to look at my left hand as I play without slide…it’s just a bad habit.
Another great video, thanks!
But maybe that about using ears only doesn’t work as well with slide in replicating open tunings or these?
Keep the videos coming! Thanks for sharing 🙌
Thanks so much for the fire lesson, so valuable! Cant get enough of your style. Much love brotha!
Awesome content Dylan, I always learn a lot, please continue to create more contents.
Thanks for sharing your knowledge
Love this series! So kind of you to do this :)
Thank You
Very Much.
Take Care
Brother.
With Gratitude.
Peace.🙏
Remember , you can't please them all ! Good stuff and thank you, my man 🤙
Great Job Man ❤❤❤
You are bananas brother
Another good video thank you
Great stuff man thank you!
Nice one Dylan, thanks for taking the time :)
Thank you Dylan!
Outstanding! Thank you so much for standard tuning slide. Can you show us Call and Response?
Fuckin going for blood in that intro. Love to see it. Great content as usual brotha
I think you should create a playlist with the videos about slide guitar
Looking forward to the fretting behind the slide video. I’m a middle finger player so idk if I’ll have the courage to turn my world upside down and go for the pinky but I am curious about how string height and the balance between tension and relaxation go into keeping a clean sound between fretted notes and slide. Great video!
Yepper ,that intro ...MAN !
Great video again!
May i suggest you to go thought your setup on the guitar - i think some (like me) will be interested.
As i said before, you can make it into more detailed video (a.k.a longer), and i am happy to pay for the great lesson!
Looking forward to the next lesson! (If any)
I have a video called “Should You Set Up Your Guitar For Slide?” where I go in detail about my setup measurements and thinking behind setting up my guitars!
@@dylanadamsguitar opps, stupid me! Sorry about that!
Awesome job D!
Thanks Jack! 🤘🏻
Ed King was phenomenal in standard....check out the licks in Curtis Loew...some seriously tricky stuff.
First of all, Thank you for sharing your knowledge! I’m 72 now and been playing since age 6 and still obsessed with tone. Could you please explain your take on tone and not only amp settings but settings with tone & volume pots on the Guitar? Thanks again!
Hi Dylan. Just started listening to your vids. Great! One thing; I see that you (and everyone else as you've said) finger picks with the right hand. As a long time flat picker I'm trying to change over. You've stated to use fingers only but I've never seen anywhere where you explained HOW. How do you do it!? Is there a lesson where you go over HOW you finger pick, or if not, could you then do a video where you do go into some further depth on that? Thanks!
thanks for sharing
Thanks for watching!
Awesome !
Good work!
🔥🔥🔥
Great video man! You got me tripping, it looks like you’re lying with your back on the floor 😂❤
Thank You I found this very informative and helpful, and I've been playing slide for over 30 yrs. I know Duane played with his fingers and many other great slide players do as well, I personally go back and forth but I noticed you are using your fingers, do you feel that's important to the sound your going for?
Have you ever heard some of the slide stuff Lyle workman does? Like “Burning of the brightest flame”?
Pro tipp: Don’t memorize scales like complicated passwords. This will only confuse you and hold you back while playing. Use your ear instead. With time you will HEAR where the next tone of the scale is located instate of seeing it. This is so much easier and also much more intuitive/natural since hearing is what music is all about. No need to translate a visual concept on to an acoustic one, just cut the middleman. Once you will master hearing the notes before you play them, this technique will unleash your playing, with or without bottleneck.
your videos are fantastic! Are there any using standard tuning in minor keys?
I need to make a video series about playing fretted guitar in open major tunings because the things I’ve been finding ever since I made that switch are awesome.
Hi Dylan
Awesome stuff great tone!
A request to show just a couple licks to start using fingers behind the slide to play fretted notes. Do you lift the slide totally off the strings or just angle it to allow fretted notes to sound or both angle and lift?
Have you ever tried to play bebop lines ? I feel like slide isn't really compatible with chromatic lines etc. Great lessons, really inspired me to dive into the slide cosmos.
Absolutely magical!!! :) - what's the intro jam though? is that your own riff? it is sooo tasty :)
Thanks!! Yup it’s a little groove I came up with 🤘🏻
I would expect you will be in demand by Nashville and the many producers in the near future... I'm looking forward to following your bright future !
We’ll see, that would be awesome!! Thanks 🤙🏻
Thanks for these videos, they are very helpful. What slide are you using in the video?
Thanks for watching! I’m using The Rock Slide small brass model
Is there anywhere you have these instrumental tracks you make posted online to listen to? Both the backing music and the slide playing are fire. Using Superior Drummer virtual drums?
Not currently, but that is something I plan on doing in the near future! The drum grooves are played/programmed by me with Logic Pro software instrument kit I made
Making it look easy - practice, practice, practice and get a grip in a group; improv....
Any acoustic sir???
Curios if. That’s a production slide or did you make it…thanks 👍
It’s made by The Rock Slide, their small brass model!
@@dylanadamsguitar I’d like to get that exact one…been trying n their site and there are a million different ones…do you remember the exact model and the specific size…if you do thanks in advance !
@@nationalduo4945 it’s the Small Polished Brass model TRS-SB, 17.5mm x 47.5mm. The important thing though is to get the size that fits your finger best! I have skinny fingers and the small fits me well, just barely snug with a slight amount of wiggle room
Joey Landreth has entered the Chat 😂 I seriously think it’s great though I’m going to give it ago as the pay off is huge
oh yea bubba thats how it is done
George Harrison