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.
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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