Dylan Kay slide guitarist and slide guitar teacher

Hi, I’m Dylan Kay

I have a long-standing, healthy obsession with all things slide guitar, and I love to help others understand and master this most expressive way of playing guitar.

I've been a guitar player for 35 years, a guitar teacher for 25 years and in my own playing have focused on slide guitar since 2005.

“Dylan Kay is a badass slide player and anyone who’s interested in slide guitar would greatly benefit by taking lessons from him.”
— Scott Henderson, legendary US jazz/blues/fusion guitarist

I studied at Berklee College of Music in Boston (including studying with slide guitar great David Tronzo) and the Guitar Institute in London (where I later taught for many years).

I have played everywhere from tiny restaurants to the O2 Arena, and continue to perform, compose and record music.

Originally from the UK, I run a successful bricks and mortar guitar school in Auckland (New Zealand), where I live with my young family and "a few" guitars (and slides!)

A Change Is Gonna Come

Here’s an excerpt from an arrangement I did of this great Sam Cooke song. I’m playing my 1964 Silvertone 1457 guitar, with a custom Diamond bottlenecks slide, in standard tuning.

God Only Knows

Here’s part of a duo performance (with bassist Richard Pratley) of my arrangement of Brian Wilson’s incredible song. This is in Open C tuning, on my Danocaster Strat, through my Two Rock Studio Signature amp.