Slide Guitar

• Lesson 1 - Introduction to Bottleneck style, basic techniques, open D Tuning learn “Paris, Texas” by Ry Cooder
• Lesson 2 - Bottleneck style – combining slide & fingerpicking, 12 Bar blues learn “Dust my broom” by Elmore James
• Lesson 3 - Bottleneck style – open G tuning, further fingerpicking techniques, muting, vibrato, learn “Death letter blues” by Son House & a country blues instrumental.
• Lesson 4 - Bottleneck style –Open G & D tuning scales, soloing & licks to play with a 12 Bar blues
• Lesson 5 - Introduction to lap guitar - Basic techniques, dropped C tuning, learn “You got to move” by Corey Harris
• Lesson 6 - Lap guitar – Licks, riffs & more advanced techniques combining fingerpicking and slide. learn ”Pleasure & pain” by Ben Harper
• Lesson 7 - Indian lap guitar style- major and minor scales, improvising, Techniques of Vishwa Mohan Bhatt
• Lesson 8 - Lap guitar – soloing, blues scales, riffs & improvising, learn  “Spanish castle magic” – Hendrix (version adapted for slide)
• Lesson 9 - Recap of all bottleneck techniques, improve/help any areas you wish to concentrate on. + new song utilising skills learnt so far.
• Lesson 10 - Recap of all lap guitar techniques, improve/help any areas you wish to concentrate on. + new song utilising skills learnt so far.

This 10 week course is suitable for guitarists of all levels, even those who have never picked up a guitar before”