Slide Guitar: Fretting Behind The Slide [Lesson]
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- čas přidán 5. 07. 2024
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Chapters:
00:00 - Intro
00:13 - Jam/Update
00:56 - New B&G Guitar!
02:54 - What Is Fretting Behind The Slide?
06:40 - Lesson
15:56 - Outro - Hudba
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Very well presented with common sense included. 👍Another part of the 'efficiency' approach to combining slide with fretted notes is that the slide's advantage is best applied to notes that are held long enough to use some vibrato, or to slide in or out of the note. Unless the slide is already positioned for them, the quick passing notes are often better done with the fingers, saving the slide for where it counts.
Exactly!
Shout out to Rhett Shull who introduced Dylan's awesome playing to me and I'm sure a lot of others.
This is wonderful. Thank you so much! I really thought you had to hold the slide in place and let the string bounce up to hit it like a reverse pull off. This made all the difference!
Yep.
Same
So glad you mentioned Sonny Landreth! He came to my mind right the way when you started talking about the technique. It's because of Sonny that I play slide. Dylan! I really love your slide work! I truly enjoy it! Thank you, Joey, Ariel and everyone else for keeping the slide alive!
Its cool to see Sonny Landreth's style getting popular! It really is the next evolution in slide. So many possibilities.
Thanks for this. I took an online lesson from Ariel Posen. It was slightly humbling. He’s a nice guy and wasn’t rude but he was brutally honest with me. Basically he told me I was a good player but I had to put more effort into theory and knowing the neck cold. The techniques are important but secondary to knowing what you are trying to do musically. Ariel and Joey know the theory side of this inside and out and out in both open and standard tunings.
Think of the slide as your finger for pull offs . I learned in 1977 watching Johnny Winter . I taught slide and most gave up. Takes dedication, the more you play, it will make sense how good luck you muffle strings and I recommend picking one string, G string, and play up and back until you can do it without sounding like crap then it will be easier to understand.
Looking forward to the chording vid. To me, that is where things really open up with "behind the slide" fingering.
Amazingly awesome! Thanks for sharing!!
Outstanding playing! Thanks for sharing!
Thank you Dylan for the lesson, looking forward more videos from you.
These videos are so awesome, helpful. Straight to the point and inspiring, thanks man!
Love the video Dylan! Very well done and sweet guitar.
Dylan, this is gold for me. Thank you very much.
New setup sounds good! Looking forward to more content from you.
great video I love your playing. Thanks for sharing !
Really appreciate your breakdown. It really is an amazing sound. Playing in Standard tuning opens up a whole world to the amazing Slide Tone!
Thank you Dylan for this great lesson 👌👍🙏
Thanks! Love your playing
I LIKE IT, i will try it on my mulecaster!! Thanks for sharing!
Learning hammer on's and pull off's with the slide. The key to getting control of it so you can then apply that to BTS licks. I never would have figured that out on my own. Thanks so much Dylan!
It was a revelation for me, glad I can share that tip! Thanks for watching and best of luck man 🤘🏻
Love your playing man! Glad I found your channel!
You are an exceptional player all around and fantastic teacher... thanks for the help👍🏻
Great stuff 💥
This is awesome!!!
I've been doing this for five or six years, but have never heard of it refered to by this name. I figured it out on my own; now I can get some other ideas from the artists you named.
You break this down very well.
Nice lesson. Can't wait to dig in!
Thanks, best of luck! 🤘🏻
Really Great Job Man ❤❤❤
This was incredibly helpful. Your teaching style is refreshingly straightforward and, for me at least, it hits home. Thanks!
Thank you so much and I’m so stoked to hear the videos are working for you! 🙏🏻
Thanks Dylan! It didn't occur to me that hammers and pulls are so important to this style. Working on it right now.
Your videos are very insightful. Thanks for posting. There are a few licks I struggle with using just the slide in standard tuning. I will try them with this technique.
Cool video, Dylan ! Btw, if Sonny Landreth is definitely the pioneer of this approach, there's another slide player, Scott Colby, who developed that technique in his own way, at the same period. He came out with an album in the 80's ("Slide Of Hand"). It's inspiring how both of them and Tronzo use this technique in their music but also to create their arrangements as well. David Tronzo uses it in a different way, compared to Sonny... It provides so many possibilities for lead lines, but also for chords in open-tuning. I'm still struggling with this approach after all these years but results are definitely worth the effort !
Dylan, terrific stuff. I've enjoyed slide for many years, sends shivers down my spine, but i don't think I've ever seen this with standard tuning played as effectively or convincingly. Thanks so much for your insights into this technique and your willingness and efforts to share!!!
My guitar teacher threw me Native Stepson by Sonny Landreth. What a monster player. I worked on those Sus chords for a long time :)
Amazing playing 🤘🤠🤘
Fantastic Dylan, thanks for sharing your knowledge and technical excellence with us mere mortels . I salute 🫡 you Brother 💯 👏 🙌
Dude, you are a MONSTER & are becoming a staple in top slide guitarists (heck, just top guitarists) out there!!! I couldn't believe when I saw y'all were just at Mocama less than 1 week from when we played there a couple weeks ago! YOU are the reason that appearance legitimized that venue for me, man! Keep it up! Love it!!
Yess!!! Finally ive been waiting for more videos im so excited your going to be updating more often!! Favorite youtube channel by far! Keep it up brotha😎and those shorts man your nuts with that slide! Hope to be half as good as you some day
Ah man thank you so much, that means a lot!! Yeah I need to get back on posting the shorts, I’m still posting a lot on instagram though. Anyway, best of luck man!
Thanks for the breakdown
Awesome! I've always mixed fretted and slide licks together and often "accidentally" fretted behind the slide, but never realized it was a specific technique until I came across your videos. You've since inspired me to purposely work on it and incorporate it into my regular playing. Thank you!!! *Also, I got used to playing standard tuning slide a long time ago, because I'm just too lazy to bring an extra guitar to gigs LOL! After watching you play, I don't feel so ashamed of my tuning. :)
Dylan, Thanks for the tips and the small details that one might not be able to notice when you play. hammer-ons and pull-offs make a real difference. Well done; Manuto.
Thanks for doing this. Its a great lesson
more lessons like this! such nice lessons:)
Thanks! Be workin on this!
amazing guitar
Great video mate, you make it look so simple, I’ve been playing slide 5 years now, mostly open tuning- you have caught my ears attention- mint- good luck from Scotland 🏴👍
Thanks.
Peace🙏
Well that’s my practice routine knackered for at Least the next 3 months
I watch you play like that and it simply blows my mind! I’m trying to learn slide and I’m getting frustrated! It’s so difficult, lol!
thank you!
Very top content man. The best…
Thanks!
YOU ARE AWESOME!!!
Wonderful intro!
Nice Dylan, very helpful.
Love the Muscle Shoals shirt
Excited to start this technique but I’m at work guitar is at home !! Lol
Thanks Dylan ! For the inspiration
I’ve been playing slide for 40 years but not like that !
Very interesting I’ve been playing slide guitar in blues-based bands for over 30 years now, and I really have seen it change over the last decade or more in the way people approach slide guitar definitely more of a vertical approach as opposed to older guys like me who played and thought more across the fingerboard more Delta based Love this little lesson. Looking forward to more stuff.
Landreth was never playing using his pinky when I saw him. I've been playing slide since I started playing. It takes time and practice.
Hadn't thought of it before but slide with behind the slide fretting is akin to mastering hybrid picking. So that's great, Thank you Dylan for giving me another angle that I can struggle with!
I really should have stuck to playing three chords 😉
Very cool! 🤙🤙
Excited about future videos. Love your playing. I’m about 5 years into playing slide. Play both on ring and pinky. Pinky when I need to fret behind. Cheers! - Chris
Thanks so much man! Good for you being able to switch fingers, I used ring for about 5 years and as soon as I switched to pinky and got used to it, ring felt weird and has ever since lol. Anyway, best of luck man!
@@dylanadamsguitar I learn by listening and watching, so geeked about your channel. I watch Derek, Joey, and Ariel on YT religiously. I've learned so much from them. Cheers.
Awesome-sauce!!!
Thank you 👍🏾👌🏾💪🏾🤘🏾🎼🎵🎶🎶
I like it more with the black covers! Always been a strat guy, but looking at P90 guitars lately,,btw youre a great player!!
everytime i've ever used a slide it felt most natural on the middle finger, not sure why, prolly saw someone else use it there or somthing. Cool approach, my approach was just play stuff i'd normally play without it, with it and let me remaining fingers do whatever they did before too, no rules other than try to damp the string from behind the slide because it sounds better.
Wow that was awesome!! Really want to see you live. Any tours up north coming our way?
Thanks!! No tours planned as of now, hoping that changes next year!
That lick at 14:48 though 🔥🔥🔥
Home run!
Steve gaines did it too. Highly underrated guitarist overall. Great slide player.
Thanks Dylan. More licks please. :)
If you’re into this style of playing definitely check out Seth Lee Jones. Best slide playing I’ve seen. He’s a bad ass luthier as well out of Tulsa Oklahoma
5-Stars! ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻
For fast lines it seems like the longer the line is the more likely that some combination of fretted vs slide notes will help to play it in time. A long line of steady 8th notes that moves around quite a bit might be hard to sustain using only slides. Also if the line has some bigger interval jumps it might be helpful to fret some notes. It just seems useful to practice this so it's in your toolbox.
Dear Dylan being a fan of slide guitar. for years loving Ry Cooder and the bluesmen. Great lesson I have a couple of questions did you adjust the radius of the strings flatter ? I always have quite lots of buzzing when I try fretting chords behind the slide. Second question have you searched for certain type of bottleneck to be the most practical (weight size…)Big thanks for sharing your knowledge 👍👏🙏
string gauge has always been important to me when playing slide; and that's why I have a dedicated slide guitar with slightly higher action, heavier gauge strings. What's the optimal string gauge to be able to fret behind the slide with bends, hammer-ons, and pull-offs and have heavier gauge strings that accept the slide and maintain stability? Or do we need to build crazy finger strength? Joey Landreth has muscular hands.
Love it ! Im learning dobro and im using a converted resonator. Sometimes i struggke it seems with the radius and string contact/ note accuracy. Is there a radius other than flat that is better for what your doing or are you just sliding at the first 3 strings?
Right on! While flatter is usually better, I don’t have a specific preference for radius. My guitars are anywhere from 7.25” to 20” radius and the only one that can get somewhat tricky for me is 7.25. That said, I’m never sliding on more than 3-4 strings at a time, never doing full 6 string chords so your mileage may vary.
Hey Dylan, I've always played with the slide on my ring finger and there's an obvious disadvantage to that. Doing these little exercises you lay out is way harder on ring vs pinky. I'm by no means an accomplished slide player so thinking about regrouping and starting to use it on the pinky. Have you seen many ring finger slide guitarists using this technique?
Amazing video as always. Who would you say would be your main inspiration when it comes to phrasing?
Thanks so much! Duane Allman and Derek Trucks are my biggest inspirations guitar-wise, plus any and all of the classic blues guys from the 50s-70s. But I’ve also learned so much from horn players like Coltrane, Miles Davis, Freddie Hubbard, Sonny Rollins, pianists like McCoy Tyner, Wynton Kelly, Oscar Peterson, funk/r&b music in general a la Sly & The Family Stone, The Meters, James Brown, Donny Hathaway, Stax/Motown/Muscle Shoals artists, vocalists like Ella Fitzgerald, Mahalia Jackson, many many more! No way I could name one single main inspiration out of them
@@dylanadamsguitar Man. I’ve got some serious listening to do. Thanks a bunch!
What is fretting behind the slide? It’s sick AF! That’s what it is! 😂
Have you ever noticed how much Blackmore used slide in Rainbow ? I had no idea till I saw him live .
I don't think Malmsteen has ever used one
Have you checked out Ian Thornley at all? You are absolutely amazing at it.
love your videos man! just a quick question. How long is your slide and the size of it? and how long is your pinkie finger? haha sorry if that is weird but my slide feels to long and I wide. I am looking for something new. Can't wait for the next video.
Looked up Tronzo. Pretty wild
DYLAN ADAMS, Ariel Posen TILTS at an angle while fretting behind the slide to keep the slide notes also. You should make a YT lesson about Ariel Posen Tilting the the slide lifting it up while fretting notes behind the slide.
"It doesn't sound as good" to slide every note. Full stop! It sounds better to fret esp. in standard tuning. Great lesson!
Dylan, I’m having trouble on the high frets trying to get my pinky and index finger close enough to only cover two frets. Any suggestions?
What is the finger that mutes the strings when you play with the slide?
Hello Dylan, I’m subscribed and your video popped up so I’m watching.. one thing that immediately struck me is wearing the slide on your pinky! I’m thinking that initially it’s probably a bit more challenging because it’s hanging out there on the end of the hand making it a bit more unstable vs being on your ring finger. But, it allows more fingers for fretting behind the slide, which seems the most intelligent way to approach slide playing! Since I will be beginning a deep dive into slide playing, I’m going to focus on learning that technique from the go.. that way, I can ‘make’ that my technique. Apologies, I know this is long, but if you could answer a couple of questions going forward.. do you feel it’s most important to learn slide in standard tuning? What are your thoughts on Drop D for slide? Of all the other open tuning options, do you feel one to be more useful/versatile from other tunings? Perhaps you can address these questions in future videos! Appreciate your content, and I’ll be watching for your next videos!
Hey man, check out my video “Slide Guitar 101: Basics and Where to Start,” I cover pretty much every question you asked except the drop D one! Which I haven’t messed around with drop D too much, but I imagine it would work great for some nasty low notes and getting a taste of that open D sound in your standard tuning playing
@@dylanadamsguitar Will do, Dylan! Thank you for the timely reply! I appreciate it! Keep Up the Great Work!
When you “pull off” from the slide, is it almost like a hammer on from the finger behind the slide? Because that finger wasn’t down when the slide was on and If it is, it messes with the sound of the slide.
Killer stuff man, workin on it!
Also when you pluck with you thumb for example on the D string, how are you keeping the a string from not ringing? Making sure the slide isn’t touching it, or muting with the right hand? Or some of both?
Sitting here working on it and the longer I sit the Moe I see it’s a bit of all of that and just taking the time. Killer dude!
Dylan, I’m about 2.5 years into playing guitar. With a pick and no slide…..i play a couple hours per day and have made great progress….I have never played fingerstyle but can see how it’s the optimal method for slide….my question is how long if I make the switch to fingers/slide (very roughly) do you see it being to wear you at least sound good and competent…..I totally get it’s a journey but it’s the switch I find intimidating
I can relate. Started playing guitar during the corona pandemic. Then after two years of normal guitar playing (I also only played with a pick) I started playing slide guitar. First 5 months on my normal acoustic, then I bought an acoustic resonator because I was really digging it and hated the retuning and the soft sound of playing the slide on the normal acoustic.
So currently I’m playing slide for 14 months and have the mechanics of the slide down where it feels natural to use it and there won’t be much rattling. That said, that’s only the fretting hand. I only just started really focusing on the right hand with playing single note licks with the according right hand muting. And OMG, it is so damn cool 😎
I’m 37 years old and I play acoustic, I have no idea how that impacts the learning curve.
So definitely the first few months will be hard and you have to push through BUT, if you do, it will be very very very rewarding 😁
The fun-factor is HUGE!
And the sound of that delta blues shuffle mixed with these deep slide notes which you can literally drag in or out to is just the best there is 🤘🏻
I love it more than my regular guitar playing.
Playing in a different tuning helps you even more as beginner guitar player to start understanding the instrument better in general. It also learns you to really listen for the right pitch, so it’ll train your ear aswel.
If you have any questions, don’t hesitate to contact me! Good luck! 😎🤘🏻💪🏻
What slide is that you're using? Looks like there's a recess on one side to accommodate the third finger up against it? Manufacture name or website? Thank you.
It’s made by The Rock Slide, their Polished Brass Slide in size small. They make the best brass slides out there if you ask me, and yes there’s a couple ergonomic cutouts for comfort!
Didn't Lowell George do some of that with Little Feat?
how important is it to have a hardtail guitar for optimal slide guitar?
If you want to experience fretting behind the slide by a master check out sonny landreth, both his music and his master class.
If the slide takes the place of what you would normally play with your ring finger, is there any reason you cant do this technique with the slide on your ring finger? Or does that cause other issues that might not seem obvious at first. I hate to try to re-learn with the slide on my pinky even though I know there are some advantages.
The main issue with using your ring finger is that it can cause strain in your left hand when trying to reach back and grab notes with your index finger. I used to be a ring finger player myself, and was literally injuring my hand trying to fret behind the slide (not saying this will be the case for you though), so I switched to pinky. It was a hard transition for the first month or so, but once I got used to it the advantages of using my pinky far outweighed the disadvantages.
@@dylanadamsguitar Oh wow ok, maybe it's worth making the switch then. Thanks for the response!
Joey who? 😉
Bitchin' guitar in both sound and looks.
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What do you think of George Harrison's slide playing? I really like, and you are also a superb player by the way.