Chords for Slide Guitar Lesson - #1 Open D with Resonator - Richard Gilewitz
Tempo:
113.35 bpm
Chords used:
D
G
A
E
B
Tuning:Standard Tuning (EADGBE)Capo:+0fret
Start Jamming...
Hi, this is Richard Gilowitz here and I'd like to go ahead and show you a little bit
about [G] slide playing and [D] I'll be using a [G] beautiful little Rezaphonic guitar from [Am] my friends at Goldtone.
And so this is an [A] Acoustiglide slide, there's actually two of them.
This is the newer model and that's the older one.
There you go.
[G] There you go.
These are the two I like the most.
I'll give you a little taste of this one and right now I have this instrument in an open
D tuning so [Dm] it's D, [G] A, D, [D] F sharp, A, D.
It's just pitched as standard concert pitch so
those would actually measure up on the tuner as D, A, D, F sharp, A, D.
[B] And so what I try
to [Ab] do is I use my pinky to hold the slide and I brace my ring finger against it for stabilization.
Also that frees up these three fingers to chord with and then I can use my index finger
to [A] dampen behind the slide so that gives it a [Am] smoother sound.
So you can see, [G] [Dm] you [D] get that?
Or if I want to lift the finger, this [Em] is kind of more of a dirty sound.
But I try and teach people how to, or I try when I'm composing, play [A] with my hands [Ab] in
maybe two or three [E] finger positions like say on strings five [Am] and three to use these
middle fingers here and then [A] use my index and second finger just like with an E major
chord on the second and first fret.
[Gbm] So that might be just [Gb] considered a couple of positions.
[E] So you might call [B] that position [Am] one and then that two.
And then you can find [B] different locations.
So what I might do is I might find that this position one is [G] good starting at frets one
[C] and then [Bm] [E] maybe there at [D] say six and eight.
So I could do like [C] that and then I can play maybe this shape of the second [F] shape [D] there,
[E] there, there and there.
So you can find different positions.
So I might [B] think of something like one, [A]
zero, [C] one, [D] six, eight, and then for the second position
for [G] an example, this shape at three, five, [E] maybe ten and twelve.
[D]
And [D] then you can bounce back and forth among those.
And [Gb] then the right hand stuff, there's a million patterns you can do, but I [Em] was just staying
in the [D] register of strings six through three.
So the reason for showing you that is so that now you can do a little bit when you're not
playing slide, going from slide [G] to a chord [D] or [A] [D]
like that.
So you might want to consider practicing going back and forth.
And just to give you an [Dm] idea, [A] [G]
[D] you could do something like [Ab] that.
And then with my right hand, my picking [Gb] hand, I usually reserve this for three registers.
If I'm on strings three, [D] two, one, [A] I'll call that position one.
I've said [Abm] this a million times, four, three, two, [B] position two and five, four, three [D] is
position three.
And so you can get [E] some pretty cool sounds.
Let's just say if I wanted to navigate around the fourth and fifth fret.
[F] [G] You can do that and you can [Eb] go back, you can go up, [G] [Eb] back and forth, or you can go up [Gb] several
times in a row.
[G]
And you can do some kind of mutes or staccato sounds where you [N]
just get kind of a nothing note.
It's like, I think they're denoted with an X sometimes in music.
They [G] still have a time value.
So there [Dm] might be [Bb] [A] quarter or eighth note Xs.
[C] But just to give you an idea of what you can do with the [D] slide and an open D tuning as
I navigate from register to register, I'll just make something up here.
Now when I did [G] that, I used my ring finger on string one.
And even though I'm covering all six strings with the slide, I came up with just one finger.
[Db]
[Gb] And there's kind of a [G] bass note.
[Db]
[Eb] But it's kind of more of a pop.
It's one of those X notes like that.
It doesn't [Db] really have [N] a value where you would put a vibrato to it.
It's like almost the exact of a vibrato.
It's more of a pop note.
[D] And then I come back down with the slide.
My [A] middle finger [G] comes up on two, do [Bb] a little pop.
Then I shift into this second [Bm] position.
So I'm using my middle [G] finger again.
[E] And then [Ab] I'll come up to position [G] three.
And again.
[Db]
[Gb] [D] [Db] Then when I did that [D] last one, I could do [B] my index on string five.
So you can
[Gbm]
[D]
And in between [Eb] each note, do kind of a pop.
[Gb]
[F] [Gb]
You want to kind of keep that rhythm.
[Eb] So you have to kind of just experiment around.
But the [B] idea is that you can get a nice staccato sound and the pop notes in between make it very [Eb] effective.
[Bb]
[F] And then there I just shift it down.
[Am] And then I can either do [F] two fingers, index and middle [B] on string five and four.
[Am] And then [E] moving from say fret two to [F] three.
Or you can also do something called a brush stroke.
Where instead of plucking two fingers, [Cm] I'll hit my middle finger.
[F] And that actually brushes like a little upstroke on four and five.
So that's two [E] different effects.
So realize when you're going down [C] here, you can pluck three notes.
Or you can pluck thumb, middle and [A] do a brush.
[B] And they have a little bit of a different feel to them.
So just kind of noodle around.
[E] See what you can do with the different positions.
And you can [D] just
[A]
[D] Now on this guitar, I [Gb] can't go past the twelfth fret here.
So it's trouble for me to dampen [Bb] behind here.
[D] So I might let that be the dirty part of the song.
And then when I go to say three, five [Gb] or seven.
[Em]
[A] That's where I might apply the damp with this index finger.
So [E] see what you can do with this open detuning.
[Bbm] [Eb]
[A] [G] [Dm] [G]
[D] [G] [D]
And just [B] experiment, have fun.
And lots and lots of trial and error.
So that's your open detuning with the slide.
[Bb]
about [G] slide playing and [D] I'll be using a [G] beautiful little Rezaphonic guitar from [Am] my friends at Goldtone.
And so this is an [A] Acoustiglide slide, there's actually two of them.
This is the newer model and that's the older one.
There you go.
[G] There you go.
These are the two I like the most.
I'll give you a little taste of this one and right now I have this instrument in an open
D tuning so [Dm] it's D, [G] A, D, [D] F sharp, A, D.
It's just pitched as standard concert pitch so
those would actually measure up on the tuner as D, A, D, F sharp, A, D.
[B] And so what I try
to [Ab] do is I use my pinky to hold the slide and I brace my ring finger against it for stabilization.
Also that frees up these three fingers to chord with and then I can use my index finger
to [A] dampen behind the slide so that gives it a [Am] smoother sound.
So you can see, [G] [Dm] you [D] get that?
Or if I want to lift the finger, this [Em] is kind of more of a dirty sound.
But I try and teach people how to, or I try when I'm composing, play [A] with my hands [Ab] in
maybe two or three [E] finger positions like say on strings five [Am] and three to use these
middle fingers here and then [A] use my index and second finger just like with an E major
chord on the second and first fret.
[Gbm] So that might be just [Gb] considered a couple of positions.
[E] So you might call [B] that position [Am] one and then that two.
And then you can find [B] different locations.
So what I might do is I might find that this position one is [G] good starting at frets one
[C] and then [Bm] [E] maybe there at [D] say six and eight.
So I could do like [C] that and then I can play maybe this shape of the second [F] shape [D] there,
[E] there, there and there.
So you can find different positions.
So I might [B] think of something like one, [A]
zero, [C] one, [D] six, eight, and then for the second position
for [G] an example, this shape at three, five, [E] maybe ten and twelve.
[D]
And [D] then you can bounce back and forth among those.
And [Gb] then the right hand stuff, there's a million patterns you can do, but I [Em] was just staying
in the [D] register of strings six through three.
So the reason for showing you that is so that now you can do a little bit when you're not
playing slide, going from slide [G] to a chord [D] or [A] [D]
like that.
So you might want to consider practicing going back and forth.
And just to give you an [Dm] idea, [A] [G]
[D] you could do something like [Ab] that.
And then with my right hand, my picking [Gb] hand, I usually reserve this for three registers.
If I'm on strings three, [D] two, one, [A] I'll call that position one.
I've said [Abm] this a million times, four, three, two, [B] position two and five, four, three [D] is
position three.
And so you can get [E] some pretty cool sounds.
Let's just say if I wanted to navigate around the fourth and fifth fret.
[F] [G] You can do that and you can [Eb] go back, you can go up, [G] [Eb] back and forth, or you can go up [Gb] several
times in a row.
[G]
And you can do some kind of mutes or staccato sounds where you [N]
just get kind of a nothing note.
It's like, I think they're denoted with an X sometimes in music.
They [G] still have a time value.
So there [Dm] might be [Bb] [A] quarter or eighth note Xs.
[C] But just to give you an idea of what you can do with the [D] slide and an open D tuning as
I navigate from register to register, I'll just make something up here.
Now when I did [G] that, I used my ring finger on string one.
And even though I'm covering all six strings with the slide, I came up with just one finger.
[Db]
[Gb] And there's kind of a [G] bass note.
[Db]
[Eb] But it's kind of more of a pop.
It's one of those X notes like that.
It doesn't [Db] really have [N] a value where you would put a vibrato to it.
It's like almost the exact of a vibrato.
It's more of a pop note.
[D] And then I come back down with the slide.
My [A] middle finger [G] comes up on two, do [Bb] a little pop.
Then I shift into this second [Bm] position.
So I'm using my middle [G] finger again.
[E] And then [Ab] I'll come up to position [G] three.
And again.
[Db]
[Gb] [D] [Db] Then when I did that [D] last one, I could do [B] my index on string five.
So you can
[Gbm]
[D]
And in between [Eb] each note, do kind of a pop.
[Gb]
[F] [Gb]
You want to kind of keep that rhythm.
[Eb] So you have to kind of just experiment around.
But the [B] idea is that you can get a nice staccato sound and the pop notes in between make it very [Eb] effective.
[Bb]
[F] And then there I just shift it down.
[Am] And then I can either do [F] two fingers, index and middle [B] on string five and four.
[Am] And then [E] moving from say fret two to [F] three.
Or you can also do something called a brush stroke.
Where instead of plucking two fingers, [Cm] I'll hit my middle finger.
[F] And that actually brushes like a little upstroke on four and five.
So that's two [E] different effects.
So realize when you're going down [C] here, you can pluck three notes.
Or you can pluck thumb, middle and [A] do a brush.
[B] And they have a little bit of a different feel to them.
So just kind of noodle around.
[E] See what you can do with the different positions.
And you can [D] just
[A]
[D] Now on this guitar, I [Gb] can't go past the twelfth fret here.
So it's trouble for me to dampen [Bb] behind here.
[D] So I might let that be the dirty part of the song.
And then when I go to say three, five [Gb] or seven.
[Em]
[A] That's where I might apply the damp with this index finger.
So [E] see what you can do with this open detuning.
[Bbm] [Eb]
[A] [G] [Dm] [G]
[D] [G] [D]
And just [B] experiment, have fun.
And lots and lots of trial and error.
So that's your open detuning with the slide.
[Bb]
Key:
D
G
A
E
B
D
G
A
_ _ _ Hi, this is Richard Gilowitz here and I'd like to go ahead and show you a little bit
about [G] slide playing and [D] I'll be using a [G] beautiful little Rezaphonic guitar from [Am] my friends at Goldtone.
And so this is an [A] Acoustiglide slide, there's actually two of them.
This is the newer model and that's the older one.
There you go.
[G] There you go.
These are the two I like the most.
I'll give you a little taste of this one and right now I have this instrument in an open
D tuning so [Dm] it's D, [G] A, D, [D] F sharp, A, D. _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ It's just pitched as standard concert pitch so
those would actually measure up on the tuner as D, A, D, F sharp, A, D.
_ [B] And so what I try
to [Ab] do is I use my pinky to hold the slide and I brace my ring finger against it for stabilization.
_ Also that frees up these three fingers to _ chord with and then I can use my index finger
to [A] dampen behind the slide so that gives it a [Am] smoother sound.
So you can see, [G] _ _ [Dm] you [D] _ get that?
Or if I want to lift the finger, _ _ _ this [Em] is kind of more of a dirty sound.
But I try and teach people how to, or I try when I'm composing, play [A] with my hands [Ab] in
maybe two or three [E] finger positions like say on strings five [Am] and three to use these
middle fingers here and then [A] use my index and second finger just like with an E major
chord on the second and first fret.
[Gbm] _ So that might be just [Gb] considered a couple of positions.
[E] So you might call [B] that position [Am] one and then that two.
And then you can find [B] different locations.
So what I might do is I might find that this position one is [G] good starting at frets one
[C] and then _ [Bm] _ [E] maybe there at [D] say six and eight.
So I could do _ like [C] that and then I can play maybe this shape of the second [F] shape [D] there,
[E] there, _ there and there.
So you can find different positions.
So I might [B] think of something like one, [A]
zero, [C] one, [D] six, eight, and then for the second position
for [G] an example, _ this shape at three, five, [E] maybe ten and twelve.
_ _ [D] _
_ _ _ _ _ And [D] then you can bounce back and forth among those. _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ And [Gb] then the right hand stuff, there's a million patterns you can do, but I [Em] was just staying
in the [D] register of strings six through three.
_ So the reason for showing you that is so that now you can do a little bit when you're not
playing slide, _ going from slide _ _ [G] to a chord [D] or [A] _ _ [D] _ _ _
like that.
So you might want to consider practicing going back and forth.
And just to give you an [Dm] idea, _ _ [A] _ _ [G] _
[D] you _ _ _ could do something like [Ab] that.
And then with my right hand, my picking [Gb] hand, I usually reserve this for three registers.
If I'm on strings three, [D] two, one, _ [A] I'll call that position one.
I've said [Abm] this a million times, four, three, two, _ [B] position two and five, four, three [D] is
position three.
_ _ _ And so you can get [E] some pretty cool sounds.
Let's just say if I wanted to navigate around the fourth and fifth fret.
[F] _ _ _ [G] _ You can do that and you can [Eb] go back, you can go up, _ _ [G] _ [Eb] back and forth, or you can go up [Gb] several
times in a row.
_ _ _ [G]
And you can do some kind of mutes or staccato sounds where you [N]
just get kind of a nothing note.
It's like, I think they're denoted with an X sometimes in music.
_ They [G] still have a time value.
So there [Dm] might be _ _ [Bb] _ [A] quarter or eighth note Xs.
[C] But just to give you an idea of what you can do with the [D] slide and an open D tuning as
I navigate from register to register, I'll just make something up here.
_ _ _ _ Now when I did [G] that, I used my ring finger _ on string one.
_ And even though I'm covering all six strings with the slide, I came up with just one finger.
[Db] _
_ _ [Gb] And there's kind of a [G] bass note.
[Db] _ _
[Eb] But it's kind of more of a pop.
It's one of those X notes _ like that.
It doesn't [Db] really have _ [N] a value where you would put a vibrato to it.
It's like almost the exact of a vibrato.
It's more of a pop note.
_ [D] And then I come back down with the slide.
My [A] middle finger [G] _ comes up on two, do [Bb] a little pop.
Then I shift into this second [Bm] position.
So I'm using my middle [G] finger again.
_ [E] And then [Ab] I'll come up to position [G] three.
_ _ And again.
[Db] _ _ _
[Gb] _ _ _ [D] _ [Db] Then when I did that [D] last one, I could do [B] my index on string five.
So you can_
_ [Gbm] _
_ [D] _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ And in between [Eb] each note, _ do kind of a pop.
_ [Gb] _
_ _ _ _ _ [F] _ [Gb] _ _
_ You want to kind of keep that rhythm.
[Eb] So you have to kind of just experiment around.
But the [B] idea is that you can get a nice staccato sound and the pop notes in between make it very [Eb] effective.
_ [Bb] _
_ _ [F] _ _ And then there I just shift it down.
[Am] And then I can either do [F] two fingers, index and middle [B] on string five and four.
[Am] And then [E] moving from say fret two to [F] three.
Or you can also do something called a brush stroke.
Where instead of plucking two fingers, [Cm] I'll hit my middle finger. _
[F] And that actually brushes like a little _ upstroke on four and five.
So that's two [E] different effects.
So realize when you're going down [C] here, you can pluck three notes.
Or you can pluck thumb, middle and [A] do a brush.
[B] And they have a little bit of a different feel to them.
So just kind of noodle around.
[E] See what you can do with the different positions.
And you can [D] just_
_ [A] _
_ _ [D] _ Now on this guitar, I [Gb] can't go past the twelfth fret here.
So it's trouble for me to dampen [Bb] behind here.
[D] So I might let that be the dirty part of the song.
And then when I go to say three, five [Gb] or seven.
_ [Em] _
[A] _ That's where I might apply the damp with this index finger.
So [E] see what you can do with this open detuning.
[Bbm] _ _ [Eb] _
_ [A] _ [G] _ _ [Dm] _ _ _ [G] _
_ _ [D] _ _ _ [G] _ _ [D] _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _
And just [B] experiment, have fun.
And lots and lots of trial and error.
So that's your open detuning with the slide.
_ _ [Bb] _
about [G] slide playing and [D] I'll be using a [G] beautiful little Rezaphonic guitar from [Am] my friends at Goldtone.
And so this is an [A] Acoustiglide slide, there's actually two of them.
This is the newer model and that's the older one.
There you go.
[G] There you go.
These are the two I like the most.
I'll give you a little taste of this one and right now I have this instrument in an open
D tuning so [Dm] it's D, [G] A, D, [D] F sharp, A, D. _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ It's just pitched as standard concert pitch so
those would actually measure up on the tuner as D, A, D, F sharp, A, D.
_ [B] And so what I try
to [Ab] do is I use my pinky to hold the slide and I brace my ring finger against it for stabilization.
_ Also that frees up these three fingers to _ chord with and then I can use my index finger
to [A] dampen behind the slide so that gives it a [Am] smoother sound.
So you can see, [G] _ _ [Dm] you [D] _ get that?
Or if I want to lift the finger, _ _ _ this [Em] is kind of more of a dirty sound.
But I try and teach people how to, or I try when I'm composing, play [A] with my hands [Ab] in
maybe two or three [E] finger positions like say on strings five [Am] and three to use these
middle fingers here and then [A] use my index and second finger just like with an E major
chord on the second and first fret.
[Gbm] _ So that might be just [Gb] considered a couple of positions.
[E] So you might call [B] that position [Am] one and then that two.
And then you can find [B] different locations.
So what I might do is I might find that this position one is [G] good starting at frets one
[C] and then _ [Bm] _ [E] maybe there at [D] say six and eight.
So I could do _ like [C] that and then I can play maybe this shape of the second [F] shape [D] there,
[E] there, _ there and there.
So you can find different positions.
So I might [B] think of something like one, [A]
zero, [C] one, [D] six, eight, and then for the second position
for [G] an example, _ this shape at three, five, [E] maybe ten and twelve.
_ _ [D] _
_ _ _ _ _ And [D] then you can bounce back and forth among those. _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ And [Gb] then the right hand stuff, there's a million patterns you can do, but I [Em] was just staying
in the [D] register of strings six through three.
_ So the reason for showing you that is so that now you can do a little bit when you're not
playing slide, _ going from slide _ _ [G] to a chord [D] or [A] _ _ [D] _ _ _
like that.
So you might want to consider practicing going back and forth.
And just to give you an [Dm] idea, _ _ [A] _ _ [G] _
[D] you _ _ _ could do something like [Ab] that.
And then with my right hand, my picking [Gb] hand, I usually reserve this for three registers.
If I'm on strings three, [D] two, one, _ [A] I'll call that position one.
I've said [Abm] this a million times, four, three, two, _ [B] position two and five, four, three [D] is
position three.
_ _ _ And so you can get [E] some pretty cool sounds.
Let's just say if I wanted to navigate around the fourth and fifth fret.
[F] _ _ _ [G] _ You can do that and you can [Eb] go back, you can go up, _ _ [G] _ [Eb] back and forth, or you can go up [Gb] several
times in a row.
_ _ _ [G]
And you can do some kind of mutes or staccato sounds where you [N]
just get kind of a nothing note.
It's like, I think they're denoted with an X sometimes in music.
_ They [G] still have a time value.
So there [Dm] might be _ _ [Bb] _ [A] quarter or eighth note Xs.
[C] But just to give you an idea of what you can do with the [D] slide and an open D tuning as
I navigate from register to register, I'll just make something up here.
_ _ _ _ Now when I did [G] that, I used my ring finger _ on string one.
_ And even though I'm covering all six strings with the slide, I came up with just one finger.
[Db] _
_ _ [Gb] And there's kind of a [G] bass note.
[Db] _ _
[Eb] But it's kind of more of a pop.
It's one of those X notes _ like that.
It doesn't [Db] really have _ [N] a value where you would put a vibrato to it.
It's like almost the exact of a vibrato.
It's more of a pop note.
_ [D] And then I come back down with the slide.
My [A] middle finger [G] _ comes up on two, do [Bb] a little pop.
Then I shift into this second [Bm] position.
So I'm using my middle [G] finger again.
_ [E] And then [Ab] I'll come up to position [G] three.
_ _ And again.
[Db] _ _ _
[Gb] _ _ _ [D] _ [Db] Then when I did that [D] last one, I could do [B] my index on string five.
So you can_
_ [Gbm] _
_ [D] _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ And in between [Eb] each note, _ do kind of a pop.
_ [Gb] _
_ _ _ _ _ [F] _ [Gb] _ _
_ You want to kind of keep that rhythm.
[Eb] So you have to kind of just experiment around.
But the [B] idea is that you can get a nice staccato sound and the pop notes in between make it very [Eb] effective.
_ [Bb] _
_ _ [F] _ _ And then there I just shift it down.
[Am] And then I can either do [F] two fingers, index and middle [B] on string five and four.
[Am] And then [E] moving from say fret two to [F] three.
Or you can also do something called a brush stroke.
Where instead of plucking two fingers, [Cm] I'll hit my middle finger. _
[F] And that actually brushes like a little _ upstroke on four and five.
So that's two [E] different effects.
So realize when you're going down [C] here, you can pluck three notes.
Or you can pluck thumb, middle and [A] do a brush.
[B] And they have a little bit of a different feel to them.
So just kind of noodle around.
[E] See what you can do with the different positions.
And you can [D] just_
_ [A] _
_ _ [D] _ Now on this guitar, I [Gb] can't go past the twelfth fret here.
So it's trouble for me to dampen [Bb] behind here.
[D] So I might let that be the dirty part of the song.
And then when I go to say three, five [Gb] or seven.
_ [Em] _
[A] _ That's where I might apply the damp with this index finger.
So [E] see what you can do with this open detuning.
[Bbm] _ _ [Eb] _
_ [A] _ [G] _ _ [Dm] _ _ _ [G] _
_ _ [D] _ _ _ [G] _ _ [D] _
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And just [B] experiment, have fun.
And lots and lots of trial and error.
So that's your open detuning with the slide.
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