Chords for Rock and Roll by The Velvet Underground Slide Guitar Solos Lesson

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If _ _ _ _ _ _
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_ _ _ you've never played slide before, there's a couple of things we want to look at before
we get started playing this song.
_ First is what kind of slide [Em] to use.
There's a lot of slides in the [N] world.
They're all pretty fun to play with.
The one I'm using is a chrome-plated nickel slide, I believe, or steel slide.
_ Not too thick, not too thin, [C] not too big.
It's a good middle-of-the-road, durable slide.
[E] _ I recommend [Em] one of these, but anything will work.
[E] Glass, porcelain, _ [G]
I'd even use batteries if I wanted to be a little [Em] bit funny. _ _
_ [A] You can put the slide on just about any finger.
It can go on middle finger, that's what Bonnie Raitt does.
_ Ring finger or pinky, which is kind of an old-school blues style way of doing it.
Again, the most normal, easiest-to-get-started way to do it [F#] is just [G] drop it on that ring finger there. _ _
A couple of things I'd like to say, though.
Do not _ jam the slide onto your [Em] finger until it gets stuck.
It will get stuck, [G] and that will be a problem.
I also don't recommend dropping the slide until it goes all the way down to this knuckle
here, because that [A] forces you [D] to get the slide on the strings a slightly [G] awkward angle
for your hand.
_ [F#] _ My hand wants to do this.
_ _ [Em] I can just put the slide on like that and have a good time.
[E] _ _
Now notice, I'm using these two fingers behind the [G] slide and this finger on the slide here
to stabilize it.
I can turn my hand upside down, and I won't lose this slide, and that's [Em] really helpful
for moving around.
Sometimes, [G] when teaching slide, I'll see my students do things [F] like this, and we don't
want to do that.
That's out of control.
That's kind of _ frantic-looking.
_ So we get that mitt going.
_ [N] So we got our hand.
It's ready to play some slide. _ _ _ _
Next [G] thing to look at is, when I aim for a note with my slide, [N] I don't aim for where
I would normally play.
When I put my pointer finger down, I put it in the middle of the fret.
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_ It's a nice C.
But if I put my slide there, _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ [G#] we don't want to do that.
We actually aim for the metal [G] lines themselves, because that's where the notes live. _ _ _
So that's a bit about left hand. _ _
Not too heavy slide.
_ [Em] Goes on ring finger.
[G] I don't jam it on.
I have a mitt, so I have good control of my hand.
I'm aiming for the metal lines.
_ With the right hand here, [E] _ _
playing with fingers is really great, [G] and I like to do that, but
again, for getting started, if you're used to playing with a pick, you can play with a pick. _
_ One thing to try and do, though, _ [F#]
is to get _ [G] used to keeping your hand down on the strings.
Slides are [E] inherently noisy. _ _
_ _ _ [C] And to help cut back on that [G] sound, we try and keep our hand down on the strings.
_ _ _ _ _ In fact, I'm going to turn my tone down a little bit.
_ _ Notice [F#] I have [Em] these two fingers sitting on these strings.
My thumb is actually [F] _ _ flat [G] across those.
And for this song, which is on the G string, my pick is _ on the ready on the G string. _ _
So I can [F] hit the strings.
I can slide around with minimal [B] noise that I [Am] don't want. _
[G] So now let's look at actually playing this piece.
Great little solo.
It's going to start [C] at the fifth fret. _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ Five goes up to seven.
_ _ [B] _ Seven goes up to nine.
[E] _ _ _ Back to [B] seven. _
_ _ Up to ten.
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_ _ Another ten. _ _ _
Four to five.
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_ _ _ _ _ _ [Dm] Five, seven.
_ [E] _ [A] Nine, seven. _ _
_ [C] Nine, ten.
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Now, _ ten. _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ [G] The second solo in the song is a similar idea but starts higher.
That's going to start at seven.
_ [A] Seven to nine.
[E] _ _ _
_ Nine to twelve.
_ _ Twelve to ten.
_ [F] _ _ _ _ [C] Twelve to fourteen.
[Em] _ _ _ _ Twelve.
[G] _ _ Seven to [F#] nine.
_ [Em] _
_ _ _ Here it is again.
Seven to nine.
_ _ _ Nine to twelve.
_ _ Twelve to ten.
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_ _ _ [G] Twelve to fourteen.
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_ _ [A#] Twelve.
[Bm] _ Seven to [E] nine.
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