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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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  Help My finger style SUCKS.

I've been trying to inprove my finger style and it seems to be getting worse not better?

I'm picking three strings at time in apreggie mode.

Could that be why?


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Sorry...I cant help you with that one
My fingers never could get trained to do that
I settled for a Hybrid Pick and 3rd finger style.
Kirk has some fingerstyle lessons on this site somewhere that may help. I think fingerpicking takes a lot of practice accomplish.
For me, it was like I needed TWO brains. One to concentrate on my fretting hand and one to concentrate on my fingerpicking hand............but I cant walk and chew gum, soooo dont go by me


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Sorry...I cant help you with that one
My fingers never could get trained to do that
I settled for a Hybrid Pick and 3rd finger style.
Kirk has some fingerstyle lessons on this site somewhere that may help. I think fingerpicking takes a lot of practice accomplish.
For me, it was like I needed TWO brains. One to concentrate on my fretting hand and one to concentrate on my fingerpicking hand............but I cant walk and chew gum, soooo dont go by me
Well my finger style is not bad at all, but I could probabl;y learn a little more of a rythum picking then a straight finger style.

I've tried hybrid picking before and didn't like it so my floor is litered with guitar picks LOL.


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Derek,
Record some finger style and lets have a listen.


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Derek,
Record some finger style and lets have a listen.
I probably do that tomorrow I've practice a lot today and I just want to relax.


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Here is 2 video's of my finger style work, Tell me what I'm doing wrong ok?

And yeah I do I made a mistake and I can't mute with this kind of slide it falls of when I try to mute with it.

in D
YouTube - Slide guitar in Open D

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In G
YouTube - Slide in Open G


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There's always the option of focusing on what your fretting/sliding hand is doing & letting the picking hand do what it likes to make the sounds happen.

Alot of players with 'advanced' picking technique have not learnt it, more so its come about by accident. Thats how my technique has come about, i started playing slide & found it easier without a pick (as i dont rest any fingers behind the slide). As that progressed i started playing fretted without a pick (more out of laziness, didn't like having to grab a pick every time i put down the slide) & went from there.

If you were to analyse my technique you'd probably see some flamenco strums, a bit of walking bass & general thumb/1st finger. Its come about not because i wanted it that way but because it feels right.

My advice would be to just play & if it feels right do it.

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Thank you Yass,

Since those clips I've posted of my finger style I can play better and now I can even use the guitar pick better.

By the way my office floor is litered with guitar picks LOL.


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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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