

It’s nice and simple, and sounds awesome.

The easiest riff you can do in an open tuning on slide guitar is to simply make an arpeggio out of the notes in the chord. Colin refers to a previous lesson where he explains this, but the biggest take away from that other lesson is that you need to be tuned like this: D A D F# A D. Slide guitar really lends itself to using open tunings, so in this lesson we’ll be using open D major tuning. The rhythm we’ll use is a nice shuffle pattern I IV V that you’re probably familiar with from other lessons. In this lesson Colin Daniel (from ) teaches how to play a few slide riffs in between the rhythm. Slide guitar is a lot of fun to play, partly because it is so different from how you’d normally play a guitar, and partly because it can be so expressive.
