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The easiest way to play slide guitar is to first adjust your guitar to an open tuning - in this particular lesson we're going to use Open D Major tuning for our example.

Be sure to checkout my course Essentials of Slide Guitar - this short lesson is only scratching the surface of what I covered in there!

Essentials of Slide Guitar

The reason I've chosen to use an open tuning is because a slide isn't like your fingers; you can't bend it into a new shape for every chord you change to. As a result, it is easier to adapt the tuning of our strings so that they work well in a straight line. In other words, we're going to tune the guitar so that when we strum all six strings without any fingers on the frets, it will create a great sounding D major chord.

Then, we can simply add the slide at any point on the fretboard and create another major chord.

D Major tuning is simply D A D F# A D.

In this short lesson, I'll teach you how to throw a simple slide riff in after you've played the chord. Keep in mind, my guitar is tuned to Open E Major, so if you want to play along, make sure you're tuned to E B E G# B E.

As far as the riffs go, slide is a pretty fluid way of playing the guitar; don't get hung up on doing things exactly as I've done. Most of all, let your ear be the final judge. If it sounds good, then you're on the right track.

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The flatted three chord is a great one to use in slide guitar chord progressions. It really adds a unique twist, and it is easy to play as well! To take your slide playing to the next level, checkout my full course Essentials of Slide Guitar here.