Beginning Electric Slide Guitar: Guitar Book & DVD

The combination of detailed hand close-ups and scrolling music notation in the video makes abstract slide concepts concrete and reproducible. Kelley's Texas blues foundation means students aren't just learning mechanics; they're learning from someone who plays this music authentically, which matters enormously for style and tone.

Gritty, soulful, and grounded in the blues. Slide guitar has a vocal quality, a bend and glide that standard fretted guitar doesn't, and this material captures that expressiveness alongside the technical precision required to execute it cleanly.

Guitarists who have acquired a slide and want structured, professional instruction in how to use it rather than figuring it out through trial and error. This is aimed at beginners in slide guitar specifically, not necessarily new guitarists overall; some fretboard comfort helps.

• Study the hand positions in close-up before playing along. Slide placement and finger angle relative to the frets determine both tone quality and accuracy, so pause the video as needed to mirror the exact mechanics shown.
• Experiment with the different slide tunings presented in the material. Open G and open D tunings unlock entirely different sonic possibilities, so dedicating practice time to each one pays dividends for your understanding of what slide guitar can do.
• Use the scrolling music display to connect what you hear with what you see written out. This real-time relationship between notation and Kelley's playing builds your ability to read and understand slide-specific notation conventions.

This works well as a supplemental resource for guitarists in an ensemble program who want to deepen their stylistic range or for private instruction contexts where a student is specifically interested in blues guitar. It's ideal for self-directed study outside of band or orchestra rehearsal.

• Slide guitar hand positioning and angle
• Essential slide techniques and articulations
• Open tunings for slide (at least two or more)
• Reading slide notation and tablature
• Blues phrasing and expression through slide
• Tone control and intonation on slide