Slide
RSS
ARTICLES
A Beginner’s Guide to Standard Slide
December 5, 2020
Just because you want to slide, doesn’t mean you need to retune.
Read More
Blake Mills Talks Slide Guitar
June 22, 2020
Blake is one of today’s most compelling slide players, with an expansive style that encompasses everything from Americana to microtonal music from Africa and the Middle East. Hear how he embraces the spaces between the frets in the latest episode of Chasing Frets.
Read More
Sonny Landreth: "You Have to Have the Antenna Up"
May 14, 2020
The Louisiana slide legend finds inspiration in standard fretting and the whammy bar on Blacktop Run, an acoustic/electric mashup of roots styles and rad techniques.
Read More
Intro to Indian Slide Guitar
May 9, 2020
Don’t know a raga from ravioli? Here’s a place to start.
Read More
What the Ell? My Slide Guitar Journey
October 13, 2018
Learning how to learn is an invaluable, yet often-overlooked skill. Here’s how a country superstar took the scary leap into slide guitar.
Read More
Drone Logic: Learn to Play Slide Guitar in Tune
June 9, 2018
Five ways Indian-inspired drones can help you improve your intonation.
Read More
10 Sneaky Slide Licks
December 23, 2017
Coax extra mileage from a familiar lick by slipping in some sly slide moves.
Read More
What Bohlinger Plays: Behind-the-Slide Blues
December 5, 2017
The Review Demo maestro walks you through a descending lick that's a cinch to transpose to any key.
Read More
Dust That Broom! A Newbie’s Guide to Slide
October 5, 2017
Intrigued by the sweet ’n’ searing sounds of slippery-fingered guitar? Here’s how to choose the right slide and start exploring this timeless technique.
Read More
Digging Deeper: Rhythmic Slide
July 22, 2017
Don’t limit your slide chops to singing, single-note leads. Instead, try crafting cool rhythm parts by focusing on both sides of the slide.
Read More
What Bohlinger Plays - Bouncing Slide in Standard Tuning
December 27, 2016
PG's Nashville correspondent shares a deceptively complicated-sounding technique you can use to easily make your slide work sound more intricate.
Read More
What Bohlinger Plays: Fretting Behind the Slide
July 28, 2016
The Lee Brice guitarist unpacks a simple technique that opens the portal to vast new worlds in slide playing.
Read More
Hand Jive! Master the Fundamentals of Lap Steel
July 2, 2016
A crash course in the fundamentals of lap-steel guitar: bar control, muting, intonation, slurs, and vibrato.
Read More
World Gone Shred: Slide Guitar Hijinks
May 9, 2015
Combine the soulfulness of slide guitar with a shredder’s ethos.
Read More
What Bohlinger Plays: Slide 101 Standard-Tuning Tips & Tricks Pt. 2
May 5, 2015
In this second installment on slide work, PG's John Bohlinger walks you through some impressive-sounding but fairly basic licks to use in a typical I-IV-V blues progression in A major.
Read More
What Bohlinger Plays: Slide 101 Standard-Tuning Tips & Tricks Pt. 1
February 17, 2015
John Bohlinger—Lee Brice sideman and PG Rig Rundown and Review Demo badass—deconstructs the simple techniques he uses to sound great when playing slide in standard tuning.
Read More
Beyond Blues: Slip-Slidin’ Bends
February 14, 2015
Emulate the soulful sounds of Derek Trucks and other slide masters—without using a slide.
Read More
Thimble Slide Introduces the Just Plain
October 15, 2014
A comfortable slide that gets out of the way when you don't want it.
Read More
Beyond Blues: Standard-Tuned Slide
December 7, 2013
Learn how to cop cool slide licks in the style of Sonny Landreth and Derek Trucks—without having to retune your axe.
Read More
Bonnie Raitt: Return of the Blues Baroness
March 9, 2012
Slide master
Bonnie Raitt
shares her
story of
heartbreak,
healing, and
working
with icons
Bill Frisell and
Joe Henry on
Slipstream—
her first album
in seven years.
Read More
