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How to Play Slide Guitar in Standard/Dropped-D DVD by Kirk Lorange

If you really want to spice up your playing, slip a slide over your pinkie and add it to your musical vocabulary. There's no need to re-tune your guitar to an open tuning, just stay in standard or lower that bass string down to D. Kirk shows you how in this 70 minute DVD, talking and playing you through the basics, vibrato, muting, playing single note lines, finding all the chord flavors (they're all there!) and mixing it all into one very neat hybrid style of playing guitar. To order or to find out more, click here.
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I've been listening to some of Earl Hooker's recordings lately after reading heaps of praise from the classic blues guys eg. BB King, Buddy Guy etc. and Wow! he sure plays some tasty, clean slide. He also seems to slip seemlessly into fretting and back to slide.
I wonder if anyone else is into his playing. He sounds like he plays in standard tuning, too. I can't help wondering if he uses a very short slide to facilitate his fretted note playing.
Watterya think?
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Hi Wolfred
Late Robert Nighthawk recordings are great; listen to Michael Hill's Blues Mob "Have Mercy" album -- tracks "Africa" and "Fallin' To The Ground" are excellent standard tuning slide examples

As for the slide - I think any 3/4 size will do the job - ask Kirk for his custom 'Dropped D' slide.

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How to Play Slide Guitar in Standard/Dropped-D DVD by Kirk Lorange

If you really want to spice up your playing, slip a slide over your pinkie and add it to your musical vocabulary. There's no need to re-tune your guitar to an open tuning, just stay in standard or lower that bass string down to D. Kirk shows you how in this 70 minute DVD, talking and playing you through the basics, vibrato, muting, playing single note lines, finding all the chord flavors (they're all there!) and mixing it all into one very neat hybrid style of playing guitar. To order or to find out more, click here.
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