Finally! Someone who gets right on down to business, and teaches in a way anyone can appreciate - please someone clone Andy!

KZfaq lessons are everywhere now but I think Andy was the very first person I came across that showed you how to play the cool stuff. Many years later and there’s still nothing better than a video like this. You can pick up enough, on the first viewing, to get you playing and you can go back and watch it over and over and pick up more gold.

Wow --what a honour -a slide lesson in open E --from the legendary Andy Aledort --grateful --the best teacher ever !

This is one of the best open lessons for beginner lead theory. Just what I've been looking for. Tanx mon

I Fricken love slide! And that was some goood slide. Best lesson iv had on slide Thanx a lot pal.

Excellent lesson by one of the best!

Appreciate the clarity of your instruction! I was always intimidated by slide guitar! Ordering a slide now! Thank you!

Killer lesson

Great information here, as always from Andy. Thanks!

Smokin'! Thanks for showin' us how it's done. I'm gonna check back with you after I practice for 4 or 5 thousand hours. Great stuff.

Really great video Andy. This is EXACTLY what I was looking for. Thanks man, really appreciated.

At last someone who can actually really play slide and knows how to teach. Nice video mate.

Fantastic playing, and that tone with single coils!

Man you're fantastic ! I had lost my hopes and you've given me the force and the understanding to keep .. great lesson ! Congrats ! Thanks !

My man, this is ABSOLUTLY amazing info, beginners and all! Thank you!

Great lesson, thank you...and loving the new book, Texas Flood!

Great video! I allways wanted to learn some cool slide stuff and something tells me I just found it. Thanks!

One great slide (open E ) lesson!!! :)

Thank you internet for all these amazing free lessons we have today. I never tought i learn play guitar. 🎸

Awesome SLIDE lesson right there!

Where have you been all in my life man! Thanks a lot!

Great work Andy teacher 🙏

Okay, I've played guitar for 43 years. Mainly country and mainly Rhythm... I am new to the slide but I'm determined to learn it... Been using KZfaq as a class room and it's helped a lot. I'm even playing a little Slide at live shows. I just found your video here... I absolutely love it! Thank you very much, I'll be spending a lot of time going over your techniques. Yeah it's damn fast, but may as well go for broke! Thanks again!

Thank you for this Sir! You answered so many of my questions and I learned a lot! I mute with my right hand as well and I feel like getting that down has been half the battle for me. My hands sweat pretty bad as well so it's a real struggle finding strings that'll last my broke ass haha. Anyway thanks again this has been a big help!

Thanks you help me alots today with my New slider!!. I had fun all day for my first time sliding!! :)

Greatest rock music guitar transcriber in the business!

Brilliant and generous. Thank you.

Andy youre a master thanks for all the licks

I got a magazine which had a DVD by Andy years and years ago. I basically learned all of my blues basics from that one magazine and DVD!

Whow😁 love your playing😍

Much thanks and appreciate for such a fine video that really did get my attention and music creativity flowin good:-)

Great lesson!

Great lesson Brother! Even though you don't reply to your comments, You are down to earth, and I appreciate that. I also appreciate and thank you for sharing this video. Just in time for me, even though it took 5 years to find, right? Getting back to playing after 40 years of life! I am going to try this on my Thinline Tele soon. I hope I do not break a string, uck!!! Thanks again for giving me a bit of influence to start jamming again!!!

Not bad fine sir... I really enjoyed listening to that.

Wonderful lesson TY. Sorry I Missed you in Amagansett.

Great Lesson! :)

Andy I know you posted this a year ago but curious if you are running guitar straight to your amp or are you plugged into software as well? Just curious, love the sound. Hoping to recreate it myself. Thanks

Thank you ao much for sharing man

Nice job, very Winter!

What action is best for slide. My guitars are set low and it feels difficult maintaining the sustain and glides.

Great video

One of the best lessons here is that he only moves the slide over the string he is playing. Too many of the lessons on YT show the slide all the way across the fretboard.

I respect a slide Player That's starts it of right. Lets you tune exactly to him. Respect. The Proper Way. He's a Jammer. Respect.

Definitely hear the Dickey Betts and Duane Allman influence. Ran into Dickey years ago in the Sweetwater Cafe in Bradenton, FLA. He sat at the table beside us. We said hello but didn't bother him...no one did. I tried to eat but was difficult with my mouth hanging open.

thank you

Thanks man :)

Thank you.

What if I had to tune down a half step because I couldn’t reach the vocals! Do I still play the slide in open E?

Andy Aledort - that's his name. Years ago he did a lesson on how to play Voodoo Child, and he absolutely nails it. Never heard someone do that song as right as he did. Check it out. But they didn't say the name! Ever since I've played Voodoo Child on the middle pickup.

I'm kinda new too. Great video

Nice 👍👍

I'd like to see you do an open e and open g comparison, along with some non slide fingerings. Whaddya say

very good

Awesome. One question: What do you do at 6:13 as you're moving into 4 chord? Is that A major?

thats great

Andy is The Man!!

You could use all this for open d correct? Same frets but it will just sound a step lower? Great videos, only ones I’ve found that really keep it simple and easy to follow

Speaking my language.... I'm new to guitar but my guitar brain is somewhere between maths and my soul... So this works... Learned a lot here. Please make more... Different licks maybe?

This is soooooooo Coooooool

Do yall use compressors on your slide guitar?

Lowell from Little Feat used to use open G. What is the advantage of one over the other tunings?

I'm not that bright, @ 3;35 you say "play a 5th here" not sure what you mean by that, the two notes you seem to be playing are a B on 3rd string 3rd fret and Don 2nd string 3rd fret are not a 5th apart are they ? I'm just not so swift, Thanks in advance, and great video BTW, Peace !

best vid ever x

hi andy. great lesson. i`m an very,very old "beginner". but with your help, i think i can get. good explaining... big thanks from germany.

awesome lesson!

!! great

I used to see Uriah Heap in the 70’s. Keyboard player Ken Hensley played a mean slide guitar on tunes like Spyder Woman.

Hey, thanks for this! I’ve been playing guitar since the seventies, and slide here and there but though I can play slide I find times when I get confused about the notes. You lay out the important points to make solos very understandable, thanks! I’ve played a lot of others solos and learned them note for note but this helps me put it all together. But there is a song we play where the tuning is open D, but the song is in A and I’m having a helluva time trying to play a solo with open d tuning. Any tips?

Here is the Guitar World lesson page: www.guitarworld.com/lessons/how-play-slide-guitar-open-e-tuning And here is the full-size image for the tabs of Figures 1-7 (note only the first section of the solo is included): cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/Wwdphc3MP9ZwtHW335y5SB-1200-80.jpg.webp

Thanx man your great:)

when i slide i can hear tones on the other strings even when i don't play them at all. that's normal?

man that is smoking hot.thanks.

I’m high on Valium and I dead-set thought he did a magic card trick at 8:32. I though he flipped a card up and caught it. It was just the reflection and a coincidence that he turned hand up and “caught” jt 😆

Don't really like Black Strats with White PG's. Love that Mint Green one though.

thats what He did alot of Back and Forth I'm a Harp Player what i know a little

Mojo Boogie JW ^5 !

Coresiden bottle?

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right to the business..great lesson..no fuckingaround!!!

Can you play in standard E tuning too?

Basically open E puts the major 3rd on the 4th /3rd instead of on 3,2 like standard tuning. It's just a hassle on a gig to have a second guitar and have to switch - so I learned to fake it in Std tuning.

Sounds like Johnny Winter just kidding Dam Good Player nice attack plus

What slide is he using?

for once, can you slow it down and show what your doing??

Slow it down about 11yrs ...but i will get it

Black Strat maple neck

AS THE RHYTHM OF BATTERY IS CALLED?

Great vid….I’ve found other videos to be just plain informative and confusing.

Hmmm... last time I talked to Johnny, he said he didn't know who the fuck you are. But that was 2012, WTF do I know.

All of us voyeurs who watch these videos suffer from the same curse. We all fix our eyes on the player's fretting hand as if we're in some sort of a trance. WATCH HIS RIGHT HAND!!! Want to sound like a good slide player? Learn how to hybrid pick! It's all right here in this video. He gives you everything you need in the first few minutes after crediting the great Johnny Winter with the revelation that so much can be done in so little space on the neck. Meanwhile, he's a master at hitting the right string at the right time! Spend a little time working on the slide, spend a LOT of time hitting the right notes. Slide sounds good when it's down and dirty, but it sounds bad when the right hand is stuck in first gear.

I never knew mark hamil knew guitar

Andy Aledort is that dude. He needs more features than that shithouse player "Hey this is Paul from Guitar World and today we're checking out this new gear while I play the same shit I've been playing since I was hired here at Guitar World so let's check it out." Fuck outta here.

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let's see you metal heads play like that! Better yet, pickup an acoustic so we can all laugh our ass off!

goes too fast

Where’s Cheech?

Slide must be finger-picked, and NOT played with flatpick! And should be on the pinky, too......

It’s sounding good in parts...but mostly sloppy and way to loud...hey, I’m not puttin you down, but it is sloppy, and noisy, more like static?

Hawt Dang