Intermediate guitarists
Bored with blues? Wondering how to get started with slide? This class will help you unlock a new world of sound.
3 weeks
Ariel will guide you through 5 sections of step-by-step instruction with interactive TAB and daily assignments.
Make your guitar SING
By the end of this class, you'll be able to improvise, compose, and give your guitar a unique voice with a slide.
Take the next step
Once you've mastered slide guitar, keep progressing with more Master Classes and guided practice plans.
What you'll learn
Join Ariel as he breaks down exactly how to build a slide foundation and capture the iconic sound of slide guitar.
- Give your guitar an expressive, vocal quality
- Learn how to improvise in a live-band setting
- Master the fundamentals & explore advanced topics
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Curriculum
Stay focused with this step-by-step learning program designed by our expert team of music educators.
Your guided learning pathway
In this five-part Master Class, Ariel will teach you how to become a more expressive player through lyrical slide guitar. This class will open up new avenues of expression in your guitar vocabulary as an improviser and songwriter.
Basic Slide Technique
We'll kick off the class by walking you through the fundamentals of slide guitar.
In this extensive introductory section, Ariel will break down everything from the gear you need to get started all the way to the fundamentals of slide guitar improvisation.
Making it Sing
What better way to express your inner anguish than making your guitar cry out with a slide?
In this section, you'll embellish your slide guitar foundation by learning advanced techniques that'll give your guitar an expressive vocal quality.
Improvising
Any class can teach you how to play a few songs with a slide.
In this section, Ariel breaks down how to improvise slide-based lead guitar licks in a live-band setting and provides professionally produced backing tracks you can use to hone your improvisational skills.
Part IV. Explain that Video!
Ariel's guitar videos regularly go on to rack up hundreds of thousands of view (he is one of John Mayer's favorite guitarists after all).
Here, you'll Ariel pulls back the curtain on his most popular viral guitar videos – like the time he was shredding slide guitar in a snowstorm while on tour in Canada.
Part V. SongSquad
Finally, we'll wrap up with four original songs that Ariel composed specifically for this class that tie together everything you'll have learned.
Part I. Basic Slide Technique
Build a rock-solid slid foundation.
Slide, other than being a tool that you place on your finger, is a means to embellish what you’d normally play and make your guitar sound more lyrical—like a human voice.
We'll start with the basics. In this section, Ariel will run you through the ideal setup for playing slide guitar, proper right-and left-hand technique, vibrato, and attack. Once you’re comfortable with the fundamentals, we'll move onto more advanced material.
Part II. Making it Sing
Tackle expressive techniques to give your guitar a vocal-like quality.
In Part II, Ariel guides you through how to incorporate advanced techniques in your playing to give your guitar an expressive vocal quality. This section of the class is what's going to take your slide playing from good to great. You'll practice embellishments, raking, how to play "behind the slide", double stops, and chords.
Part III. Improvising
Move beyond slide licks by learning how to improvise your own lead guitar parts.
After a quick interlude lesson on Ariel’s approach to songwriting, we’ll move on to some practical exercises. In this section, you'll learn how to improvise in a live-band setting. We’ll use three professionally-produced backing tracks by Ariel with lead sheets to hone your improvisational skills.
Parts IV. & V.
Put your new skills to the test! These last two sections are all making it musical.
Part IV. Explain that Video!
In this section, Ariel will pull back the curtain on four of his most popular guitar videos.
For each video, you'll have interactive TAB and a lesson breakdown so you can learn exactly what Ariel was playing .These lessons are great ways to understand the concepts from this Master Class in a practical context.
Part V. SongSquad
To wrap up the class, we'll challenge you to learn four original tunes (called SongSquads) by Ariel that tie together everything you'll have learned in the previous sections of the class. For each song, there's interactive TAB and a lesson breakdown video.
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Your Instructor
Ariel Posen
Make your guitar SING. Learn slide guitar in Ariel's Master Class, or dive into his lesson library to give your guitar a fresh injection of rootsy flavor.
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