Learning scales for slide guitar in Open E tuning requires a quite different approach from that used in standard tuning.
In this video, I’ll show you how to map out the minor pentatonic, major pentatonic and mixolydian scales in the key of E in Open E tuning.
This a detailed video, so once you’ve watched the whole thing, I’d suggest working through each scale one at a time.
Blues soloing is not just about learning scales!
While you need to have that knowledge, that’s just the beginning.
In this video, we’ll explore three fundamental concepts that will help you take your blues soloing to the next level: (1) using major and minor pentatonics, (2) chord tones, and (3) call and response.
Let's understand how Open C, Open D and Open E are related - that way you can play more songs, learn from more sources and play more slide guitar!
Open D (Vestapol tuning) shares the same interval relationships with Open C and Open E. What this means is that all the scale shapes, chords shapes, arpeggios etc are all the same (you just need to change the root).
In this lesson, I look at how to get your head round all this :-)
Here is a lesson on John Mayer's guitar solo on Gravity.
This is an iconic solo, that I’ve arranged for slide guitar in Open E tuning.
Studying expressive conventional guitar playing like this will open up a whole new world for your slide guitar playing :-)
If you're stuck with just playing pentatonic scales when soloing on slide guitar, this lesson is for you :-)
Without learning any new scales, we'll learn how you can add to what you already know and give your soloing a lot more authority.
The SECRET is to learn to use chord tones to outline the chord progression you're playing over.