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Lesson of the Day: A Killer Slide Guitar Lesson!

 

05.08.2008

 

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If you haven't heard of Kelly Joe Phelps, then you've been missing out on one of the most talented slide guitar players in music today. He's been playing the guitar for most of his life, and has managed to develop his own unique style of blues with an authentic infusion of varying depth, range, and technique that has resulted in multiple mentions in various industry publications, and earned him the respect of many of his peers.

 

Phelps plays with his guitars sitting flat in his lap, or Dobro style. He also uses his right hand on the body of the guitar to create a unique percussive rhythm technique, and employs the slide bar and alternate-thumb fingerpicking to achieve an amazing technical and improvisational style that simply defies categorization.

 

He's also one of the best teachers of his craft, and he offers several DVDs through the good folks at Homespun Music Instruction. Today's lesson takes two excerpts from his 80-minute DVD titled, The Slide Guitar of Kelly Joe Phelps. He starts with his use of the bar technique, then touches on string muting, fingerpicking, use of the capo, and how to find different scale patterns in the open D tuning he uses throughout the lesson.

 

If you're looking to improve your own slide guitar playing, then today's lesson shouldn't be missed.

 

Click here for today's killer slide guitar lesson >>

 

And please don't forget to check back tomorrow for yet another killer lesson from Gibson Lifestyle!

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