Slide Guitar in Standard Tuning: Blues slide without the open tunings

You don't need an open tuning to play blues slide.

Most slide guitar teaching starts with retuning. Tune to open E or open G, get a second guitar, and forget everything you know about the neck. For most players, that's where slide stops.

This book keeps your guitar in standard tuning. Put a slide straight across the strings and read what's under it, counting from the 1st string: root, 5, b3, b7, 4, root. The two notes the blues leans on most are already there, at every fret. Standard tuning isn't a compromise for slide. It's a map, and once you know it you can find any note you need by its distance from the slide.

What's inside

• The bar map: every note around the slide, the same at every fret, and the four moves that do most of the work
• Two triads under a single bar, and how to move between minor and major on the same chord
• Where the major third is, and how to get dominant sounds without chords you can't play
• Fretted notes and slide in the same phrase, which open tunings do badly and standard tuning does well
• 12-bar maps in E, A and G
• 20 phrases, four turnarounds and three complete choruses, every note labelled by interval

Who it's for

Self-taught players who already play blues in standard tuning, know the minor pentatonic, and have tried slide once or twice and put it down again. No reading music required. If you want big six-string open chords in the Delta tradition, retune. For everything else, you already have the right guitar.

Format

PDF, 56 pages, 8.5 × 11 in. Diagram-led, with tab for every example. No rhythm notation. Instant download, yours to keep, readable on anything. Also available as a paperback on Amazon.

No retuning. No second guitar. No new neck to learn.