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Guitar Lick - Guitar Lessons - Slides

Slides are one of the easier guitar techniques to play and one of the coolest! In this lesson, learn how to play a slide in a guitar lick!

1. Begin each slide from the 1st fret

2. Quickly slide your finger up to the fret # specified

3. Be sure to keep the pressure on the guitar string as you slide

4. The whole left hand should move when you slide the finger

5. Let the note that you slide to ring for 1 to 2 seconds

6. Some of these slides are 2 frets long, others are just 1 fret

7. Practice the E blues slide notes first, then each guitar lick

Slide Lick 1	Slide Lick 2
(HEAR IT!)	(HEAR IT!)

• Practice the slide notes before you start practicing the guitar licks!

• Practice each lick 3 times in a row (keep a steady beat)

• Practice each lick 3 times in a row with the metronome or the practice track

• Print out the WRITE YOUR OWN page

• Write out a slide lick with quarter notes and half notes.

• Then write out a slide lick using eighth notes, quarter notes, and half notes

• After writing a couple of licks, try creating some on the spot. Count the rhythm out loud as you play.

• Make sure your licks are 4 beats long