Slide Guitar Lesson - Open E Tuning - Great for Slide Guitar!

Andy Aledort teaches you how to play slide guitar in open E tuning. Check it out! For tabs, go to: www.guitarworld.com/columns-bl...

[@boomer8393]

Finally! Someone who gets right on down to business, and teaches in a way anyone can appreciate - please someone clone Andy!

[@jamieduke5659]

I know! I've been buying and reading his stuff in "guitar world" since I started playing.

[@nomadman123]

KZbin lessons are everywhere now but I think Andy was the very first person I came across that showed you how to play the cool stuff. Many years later and there’s still nothing better than a video like this. You can pick up enough, on the first viewing, to get you playing and you can go back and watch it over and over and pick up more gold.

[@CarlWinter-oy8uf]

Wow --what a honour -a slide lesson in open E --from the legendary Andy Aledort --grateful --the best teacher ever !

[@jillybabesno1]

I Fricken love slide! And that was some goood slide. Best lesson iv had on slide Thanx a lot pal.

[@DoctorColg8]

This is one of the best open lessons for beginner lead theory. Just what I've been looking for. Tanx mon

[@rosegeaber7533]

Appreciate the clarity of your instruction! I was always intimidated by slide guitar! Ordering a slide now! Thank you!

[@jast.1613]

Really great video Andy. This is EXACTLY what I was looking for. Thanks man, really appreciated.

[@motioninmind6015]

Great information here, as always from Andy. Thanks!

[@The_Power_and_the_Glory]

Excellent lesson by one of the best!

[@manny-gk2sm]

My man, this is ABSOLUTLY amazing info, beginners and all! Thank you!

[@edgarsnake2857]

Smokin'! Thanks for showin' us how it's done. I'm gonna check back with you after I practice for 4 or 5 thousand hours. Great stuff.

[@juanmanuelperez5684]

Man you're fantastic ! I had lost my hopes and you've given me the force and the understanding to keep .. great lesson ! Congrats ! Thanks !

[@rocknrolldejw]

Killer lesson

[@owenbutcher6165]

Fantastic playing, and that tone with single coils!

[@mariodriessen9740]

Great video! I allways wanted to learn some cool slide stuff and something tells me I just found it. Thanks!

[@Taffafilms]

Awesome SLIDE lesson right there!

[@redson425]

At last someone who can actually really play slide and knows how to teach. Nice video mate.

[@justinoconnor9516]

Great lesson, thank you...and loving the new book, Texas Flood!

[@alfredomartinez4464]

Great work Andy teacher 🙏

[@keithlutman5611]

Brilliant and generous. Thank you.

[@TRKTKO]

Thank you for this Sir! You answered so many of my questions and I learned a lot! I mute with my right hand as well and I feel like getting that down has been half the battle for me. My hands sweat pretty bad as well so it's a real struggle finding strings that'll last my broke ass haha. Anyway thanks again this has been a big help!

[@boneproduction369]

Thanks you help me alots today with my New slider!!. I had fun all day for my first time sliding!! :)

[@ittinanintaranan3701]

One great slide (open E ) lesson!!! :)

[@kimmeycollier1463]

Okay, I've played guitar for 43 years. Mainly country and mainly Rhythm... I am new to the slide but I'm determined to learn it... Been using KZbin as a class room and it's helped a lot. I'm even playing a little Slide at live shows. I just found your video here... I absolutely love it! Thank you very much, I'll be spending a lot of time going over your techniques. Yeah it's damn fast, but may as well go for broke! Thanks again!

[@sethradnothy8875]

how has your slide guitar journey faired the last 3 years? I'm just starting mine.

[@SmokeyFord]

Thank you internet for all these amazing free lessons we have today. I never tought i learn play guitar. 🎸

[@gmetfooney78]

Greatest rock music guitar transcriber in the business!

[@BerkUnant]

Where have you been all in my life man! Thanks a lot!

[@Jack1843]

Andy youre a master thanks for all the licks

[@Baci302]

Great lesson!

[@gertlarsson9285]

Whow😁 love your playing😍

[@afmcmurray27]

Much thanks and appreciate for such a fine video that really did get my attention and music creativity flowin good:-)

[@tommartin7728]

I got a magazine which had a DVD by Andy years and years ago. I basically learned all of my blues basics from that one magazine and DVD!

[@fearofnot6433]

Great Lesson! :)

[@marcustriton6978]

Wonderful lesson TY. Sorry I Missed you in Amagansett.

[@ohioguy215]

Definitely hear the Dickey Betts and Duane Allman influence. Ran into Dickey years ago in the Sweetwater Cafe in Bradenton, FLA. He sat at the table beside us. We said hello but didn't bother him...no one did. I tried to eat but was difficult with my mouth hanging open.

[@sttarch5150]

One of the best lessons here is that he only moves the slide over the string he is playing. Too many of the lessons on YT show the slide all the way across the fretboard.

[@augustinpadilla6355]

Thank you ao much for sharing man

[@GeorgeStraughn]

Great lesson Brother! Even though you don't reply to your comments, You are down to earth, and I appreciate that. I also appreciate and thank you for sharing this video. Just in time for me, even though it took 5 years to find, right? Getting back to playing after 40 years of life! I am going to try this on my Thinline Tele soon. I hope I do not break a string, uck!!! Thanks again for giving me a bit of influence to start jamming again!!!

[@CNCTEMATIC]

Andy Aledort - that's his name. Years ago he did a lesson on how to play Voodoo Child, and he absolutely nails it. Never heard someone do that song as right as he did. Check it out. But they didn't say the name! Ever since I've played Voodoo Child on the middle pickup.

[@michaelskooma8537]

Yea that voodoo Chile lesson he did years ago is still one of my favorites. The tone and everything about that lesson was inspiring for sure

[@adamtune8116]

Not bad fine sir... I really enjoyed listening to that.

[@agentrazz1]

Andy I know you posted this a year ago but curious if you are running guitar straight to your amp or are you plugged into software as well? Just curious, love the sound. Hoping to recreate it myself. Thanks

[@johnnytheory]

Great video

[@1maggan]

Nice job, very Winter!

[@lipstickspeedball]

I respect a slide Player That's starts it of right. Lets you tune exactly to him. Respect. The Proper Way. He's a Jammer. Respect.

[@jurgenblick5491]

thank you

[@johnmitchelljr]

Thank you.

[@Luysil]

What action is best for slide. My guitars are set low and it feels difficult maintaining the sustain and glides.

[@sro63]

very good

[@thomasd9237]

Nice 👍👍

[@CharlySardo]

Thanks man :)

[@kevintaylor8832]

I'm kinda new too. Great video

[@DoctorColg8]

I'd like to see you do an open e and open g comparison, along with some non slide fingerings. Whaddya say

[@50goldstrat101]

awesome lesson!

[@silverfret]

thats great

[@RobLang84]

Speaking my language.... I'm new to guitar but my guitar brain is somewhere between maths and my soul... So this works... Learned a lot here. Please make more... Different licks maybe?

[@TheRealDarthCosby]

Awesome. One question: What do you do at 6:13 as you're moving into 4 chord? Is that A major?

[@jeffbarker1635]

You could use all this for open d correct? Same frets but it will just sound a step lower? Great videos, only ones I’ve found that really keep it simple and easy to follow

[@zenmasterfu]

Works the same for open D. And a lot is transferable to open A and G, just like you're missing that high E string.

[@mudwiser1391]

Andy is The Man!!

[@blueeyedsoulman]

Lowell from Little Feat used to use open G. What is the advantage of one over the other tunings?

[@thepatrioticpopulist768]

I'm only speaking from my experience on this so take it as you would Open c is great for gospel Open d I'd darker grungey and great for swamp blues Open e is bluesy new Orleans sound. Open f is almost impossible to tune because of the neck and string strain Open g is brighter and fun to play Other than that I've played a few open minors and they feel too boxed in for gigs Also I played open a once but the way the strings are tuned it should be in its own school of thought Hope I helped

[@stringspicksandfiddlestick6388]

I used to see Uriah Heap in the 70’s. Keyboard player Ken Hensley played a mean slide guitar on tunes like Spyder Woman.

[@buck7477]

What if I had to tune down a half step because I couldn’t reach the vocals! Do I still play the slide in open E?

[@mikelandreth8773]

Don't really like Black Strats with White PG's. Love that Mint Green one though.

[@MoGumboFukUTubeForChngngMyName]

Wow!!! That was helpful!!!

[@jamesomodeo3792]

This is soooooooo Coooooool

[@patrickjonsson8701]

Thanx man your great:)

[@pixiepqueen]

best vid ever x

[@pixiepqueen]

beautiful playing

[@otis7778]

hi andy. great lesson. i`m an very,very old "beginner". but with your help, i think i can get. good explaining... big thanks from germany.

[@chesterharlan]

!! great

[@shader26]

Hey, thanks for this! I’ve been playing guitar since the seventies, and slide here and there but though I can play slide I find times when I get confused about the notes. You lay out the important points to make solos very understandable, thanks! I’ve played a lot of others solos and learned them note for note but this helps me put it all together. But there is a song we play where the tuning is open D, but the song is in A and I’m having a helluva time trying to play a solo with open d tuning. Any tips?

[@aaronbales9815]

Depending on the style, I (definitely not a pro) think you still have cool options. Of course A is the 7th fret in open D, so all that stuff he’s anchoring on the 12th you can move to the 7th. The shuffle rhythm playing is even easier in open D than standard tuning, so no worries there. I feel like the trickiest thing is being a little more precise - with the open strings being the 4/ D, your muting needs to be solid when you’re playing over that A chord.

[@shader26]

@@aaronbales9815 hey, thanks for the thoughts and ideas. All good points you make. I think my problem was kind of dumb when I thought more about it...I was assuming the guitarist in the recording of the song was also using open D (some of the intro guitar seemed like it HAD to be open D, but also now realize it could be the OTHER guitarist in std tuning) And even when the slide is prevalent, the notes I’d like to also play as the recording, are not available in open D so I think now I’m trying to learn licks from another tuning that aren’t there. But instead I’m going to try building up a different solo with the things you mention here! Thanks again!

[@aaronbales9815]

@@shader26 good luck! Just out of curiosity, what is the song?

[@shader26]

@@aaronbales9815 hey, it’s a version of T for Texas but I’ve forgotten which band it is.

[@shader26]

@@aaronbales9815 t for Texas, Lenard skynard

[@patrickhoy1347]

Here is the Guitar World lesson page: www.guitarworld.com/lessons/how-play-slide-guitar-open-e-tuning And here is the full-size image for the tabs of Figures 1-7 (note only the first section of the solo is included): cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/Wwdphc3MP9ZwtHW335y5SB-1200-80.jpg.webp

[@tysonrinker5958]

Do yall use compressors on your slide guitar?

[@KevinToine]

when i slide i can hear tones on the other strings even when i don't play them at all. that's normal?

[@ariesdesign3403]

you need to mute the other strings with your slide hand

[@ColonelPaynus]

I’m high on Valium and I dead-set thought he did a magic card trick at 8:32. I though he flipped a card up and caught it. It was just the reflection and a coincidence that he turned hand up and “caught” jt 😆

[@jixxxxer17]

I'm not that bright, @ 3;35 you say "play a 5th here" not sure what you mean by that, the two notes you seem to be playing are a B on 3rd string 3rd fret and Don 2nd string 3rd fret are not a 5th apart are they ? I'm just not so swift, Thanks in advance, and great video BTW, Peace !

[@montbob100]

man that is smoking hot.thanks.

[@RickyPisano]

Coresiden bottle?

[@pfman5971]

Can you play in standard E tuning too?

[@zenmasterfu]

The high E and B strings are the same so all those riffs will remain unchanged. But imperative to make sure to mute everything else.

[@denniscochran1747]

thats what He did alot of Back and Forth I'm a Harp Player what i know a little

[@PowRKord]

Mojo Boogie JW ^5 !

[@johnknofla242]

💙

[@conanbarbarian3797]

right to the business..great lesson..no fuckingaround!!!

[@HBSuccess]

Basically open E puts the major 3rd on the 4th /3rd instead of on 3,2 like standard tuning. It's just a hassle on a gig to have a second guitar and have to switch - so I learned to fake it in Std tuning.

[@MoneyBooBoo]

What slide is he using?

[@leepshin]

It's a standard glass slide. They "were" only a couple of quid when I bought mine a couple o decades ago. lol

[@MoneyBooBoo]

a standard slide is open on both ends. Andy is not using a standard slide. Andy is using a bottle slide. I want to know if its a dunlop Blues bottle or some Dickie Betts model or some kind.

[@leepshin]

+Goss Samer Ahhh! I'm with you now. I had no idea whatsoever. lol I just recognised it as the exact same type I have but I can't for the life of me remember what make it was as it was so long ago that I bought it.

[@deltaskelta9346]

It's his old purple heart bottle

[@markcannon1311]

Coricidin bottle

[@denniscochran1747]

Sounds like Johnny Winter just kidding Dam Good Player nice attack plus

[@jamesoxford8897]

AS THE RHYTHM OF BATTERY IS CALLED?

[@highway39]

Slow it down about 11yrs ...but i will get it

[@vasdef1]

for once, can you slow it down and show what your doing??

[@hosoiarchives4858]

Black Strat maple neck

[@MoGumboFukUTubeForChngngMyName]

Hmmm... last time I talked to Johnny, he said he didn't know who the fuck you are. But that was 2012, WTF do I know.

[@greekcafe1]

Great vid….I’ve found other videos to be just plain informative and confusing.

[@MeatyM8]

I never knew mark hamil knew guitar

[@augustin1161]

i was just saying that to myself

[@mattyc.9332]

Ha! He does look like him...

[@GradyElla]

All of us voyeurs who watch these videos suffer from the same curse. We all fix our eyes on the player's fretting hand as if we're in some sort of a trance. WATCH HIS RIGHT HAND!!! Want to sound like a good slide player? Learn how to hybrid pick! It's all right here in this video. He gives you everything you need in the first few minutes after crediting the great Johnny Winter with the revelation that so much can be done in so little space on the neck. Meanwhile, he's a master at hitting the right string at the right time! Spend a little time working on the slide, spend a LOT of time hitting the right notes. Slide sounds good when it's down and dirty, but it sounds bad when the right hand is stuck in first gear.

[@IDKSOMTHIN]

Andy Aledort is that dude. He needs more features than that shithouse player "Hey this is Paul from Guitar World and today we're checking out this new gear while I play the same shit I've been playing since I was hired here at Guitar World so let's check it out." Fuck outta here.

[@MoneyBooBoo]

+IDKSOMTHIN lol

[@PDXguitarfreak]

I remember reading Andy's columns in guitar mags way back in the 80s. "Guitar for the Practicing Musician" was my favorite mag back then, which Andy was initially a part of, before Guitar World. Great to see him still doing it!

[@DavidCrites07]

Huhuhuhu

[@darianbaxley8850]

2nd comment

[@JakeFTWBlue]

4th comment

[@jubyerhashin8214]

Where’s Cheech?

[@wanketta]

goes too fast

[@ChrisLocke1969]

let's see you metal heads play like that! Better yet, pickup an acoustic so we can all laugh our ass off!

[@ChrisLocke1969]

***** sorry, I was going to first say "this comment is intended for those who know who they are" - referring to a few posts back with aggressive metalers, so I guess I was pre-stooping to their level, my apologies... what I meant to really say was, I played the first dream theater song on youtube to give it a second chance, and fell asleep before the first guitar licks were even played, sorry! ;-P

[@mudwiser1391]

+Chris Locke I'm a country picker but I recognize the talents of every guitarist no matter what the genre. Go back to your fish.

[@ChrisLocke1969]

+Mud Wiser and I see your favorite past time is drinking beer - go back to your pickup and shotgun!

[@mudwiser1391]

Chris Locke shotguns!... shotguns!!! I have more than one you know.

[@PDXguitarfreak]

If a metal head is actually reading this, than most likely they are hear to learn and have an interest in slide guitar. In the end, we are all guitar players, and that common denominator should bond us, not divide us.

[@37terraplane]

Slide must be finger-picked, and NOT played with flatpick! And should be on the pinky, too......

[@peterobrien15]

Everybody watch out, the slide police are here.....

[@MoGumboFukUTubeForChngngMyName]

Really???? You fucking Asshat. (unedited)

[@dandog7840]

sour grapes ?

[@cacornett58]

There is no MUST in slide playing. It's very loose and inaccurate at times

[@trentondooley5187]

I guess Duane played slide wrong then lmao.

[@jeff0566jsm]

It’s sounding good in parts...but mostly sloppy and way to loud...hey, I’m not puttin you down, but it is sloppy, and noisy, more like static?

[@WillieWunderbar]

I agree on this.

[@neilsthepoet]

Hawt Dang