Electric Slide Guitar (The Ultimate Beginner Series) [Paperback]

Keith Wyatt (Author)

Book Description

Series: The Ultimate Beginner Series | Publication Date: November 1997

Topics covered include choosing the right slide, open "blues" tunings, stylistic licks and patterns, standard tuning techniques and more. The book contains a full-color photo section showing all types of slides, and it includes 32 music examples in standard notation and tablature.

Product Details

• Paperback: 40 pages
• Publisher: Alfred Publishing Co., Inc. (November 1997)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0769200362
• ISBN-13: 978-0769200361
• Product Dimensions: 11.9 x 9 x 0.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 3 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 3.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,470,588 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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7 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Excellent Blues Slide Starting Book, November 19, 2004

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Irakli - See all my reviews

This review is from: Electric Slide Guitar (The Ultimate Beginner Series) (Paperback)

I completely disagree with the previous reviewer. Keith Wyatt, apart from being an outstanding guitar player, is an excellent blues guitar player too. When it comes to slide, he shows that he's brilliant in that too. This book is intended for those, who have an experience of playing blues guitar and want to get into slide. This book covers the subject very well (it's mostly BLUES slide book, but hey, it's what the slide is mostly good for), Keith shows you how to begin playing with slide (at first in standard tuning by the way), shows techniques and then he gets down to some pretty standard blues slide licks. I found this book to be very useful and don't consider that "Fretboard Roadmaps - Slide Guitar" is better simply, because like I said Keith is way better player, the feel, the tone, the licks, everything is better then in other book (I own both of them by the way). So if you are experienced in blues guitar and want to play blues slide, get this book, forget about Fretboard Roadmaps, which is kinda "slide in every style" book, with more open tunings explained frankly speaking, but with poor licks, poor sounding CD, and songs and licks repeated in several keys - gee, if you know how to play in any key, you'll be able to play same stuff almost in every key. The only reason I didn't give this book 5 stars, it's because it could be just a little bit more detailed with more exercises and licks. And those of you, who complain that no scales are given in this book, first learn how to play guitar generally and then get into slide.

4.0 out of 5 stars Good Entry Level Instruction, November 27, 2011

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M. Adams - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Electric Slide Guitar (The Ultimate Beginner Series) (Paperback)

I found this to be a really good entry level instructional book/CD from an incredible blues and slide player, Keith Wyatt who teaches at Musician's Institute. It is only 35 pages long and so he touches on mostly playing in standard tuning and a bit in open E tuning, which is common for electric guitar. It also covers some blues basics, like what a 12 bar form it.
Frankly, if you are already a good player who finally wants to delve into slide blues playing I would skip this book and find something a bit more intensive, or just go listen to the original songs.
For those in the beginner and intermediate level who want to get their feet wet with slide gutiar without spending too much money on all sorts of DVD's this is a good place to start, as Keith talks about different slides, phrasing, clean tone and vibrato before he gets into the meat of the subject.
I actually thought his Acoustic Slide Guitar book/CD was a better and more in depth intro to blues slide playing than this book, although most of that book covers open G tuning. It really translates either way to be honest: open G on acoustic is normally played open A on electric. Open D on acoustic is normally played open E on electric. So they end up being the same licks.
Either way, slide playing is really fun, liberating, and a great skill to add to your bag of guitar tricks, even if you only end up adding it here and there to your own songs.

1 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Good for beginners, but nothing more..., June 19, 2004

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"caseygraz" (NY) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Electric Slide Guitar (The Ultimate Beginner Series) (Paperback)

This book did not provide me with the information that I wanted. There were no scales given, just examples to play along with. For those looking to get into slide, I'd recommend Fretboard roadmaps, simply because it offers so much more, like scales, thorough explanations of examples and practice tracks to improvise with. Bottom line, skip this book and go straight for Fretboard roadmaps.