RU-vid 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.
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 RU-vid 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!
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.
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.
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.
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!
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?
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!!!
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
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 😆
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
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?
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.
@@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!
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
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 !
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
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.
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.
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.
+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.
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.
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!
***** 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
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.
