Sliding Techniques

The sliding technique, which considerably facilitates lateral movement, is particularly effective in contexts such as blues, rock, heavy metal, or jazz. To be able to perform a slide perfectly, you should bear two things in mind: one, keep your eyes on the objective and two, keep a constant pressure on the fretboard at all times throughout the slide. Depending on which kind of slide you practice – be it the ascending slide, the descending slide or the slide with appoggiatura – you can achieve different playing effects. This course provides two videos of different kinds of slides, three technical exercises with their corresponding recordings to get accustomed to them, and seven licks for putting them into practice by playing them along to backing tracks.