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Slide Guitar Lessons for Beginners

Slide guitar is sometimes called bottleneck guitar. Instead playing notes by pressing the string against frets with your fingertips, a slide of either metal or glass is placed upon the string. Moving the slide up and down the string creates notes that transition in pitch different from normal playing. It’s a popular sound in blues guitar with artists like Duane Allman and Ry Cooder being the most recognised masters of this art.