Example 2 GIT517 Slide Guitar Lesson: how to play slide in standard tuning. Starting on a similar theme, this example also benefits from the extra muting facilitated by playing fingerstyle.

Though they have frequently been used on electric guitar (think Keith Richards and Jimmy Page), open tunings are particularly ...

When playing slide, Rory often tuned to an open tuning, such an open A, G, E, or D. For this month’s examples, my guitar is in open A tuning. With my low E, high E and A strings tuned normally ...