In today’s livestream - let’s play all chords in a song with a slide only! No fretted notes, no open strings - everything is slided.
This is going to be an excercise to prove the point, of course we wouldn’t do this through a whole song, or would we?
Let’s experiment together by playing Jazz Gillum's "Baby I'm Crazy 'Bout You" !
Live blues backups and usual Q&A folks, welcome!
kzfaq.infoIk17cGvvuVY
For your info:
Cameras:
Sony A6400 (headshot) with Sigma 16mm f1.4 lens
Sony A7III with Sony 85mm f1.8 lens and Sony A5100 with Samyang 35mm f2.8 lens for my playing hands
DJI Osmo Pocket 3 camera gimbal (as a BTS camera)
Audio:
RodeCaster Pro II audio interface (and much more)
Earthworks SR314 overhead (boom) microphone
Oktava MK-012 matched pair of condenser mics for the guitar(s)
Monitors:
34” LG curved monitor
BenQ 27” 4K monitor
Lights, stands etc:
Godox UL-150 fanless COB light (main headshot) with 92cm softbox
Aputure Amaran LEDs (discontinued but any LED panels would do)
iFootage SL1-60DL COB light with 60cm softbox
Godox light tube LC500R
Other smaller light etc..
Welcome with more of your questions, hit me up on Twitter @homesickmac
Prior to watching my Blue Monday Livestreams every Monday at 9pm CEST which is:
12pm PST / 2pm CST / 3pm EST / 8pm GMT (London) / 7am AEDT (Sidney), watch this video:
• Easy Tuning and switch...
- I'm explaining here how to tune your guitar to Open G and Open D tunings
- Learn the basics of fingerpicking technique - alternate bass playing
- Learn the basics of slide technique
This video is very basic and I'll be uploading more detailed content about each of the techniques mentioned later on. The topics in this video are meant to prepare you for my livestreams where I'm using standard tuning, Open G, Open D, I'm playing slide and fingerpicking.
The whole idea of BLUE MONDAY Livestreams is to provide solid and professional live backup to your soloing, maybe just hanging with my rhythm, chord shapes and learning as we go.
I'll always be explaining what and how I played, there are several sections during the one hour livestream:
- Solid backup for your guitar playing (in every livestream)
- Artist in focus (in selected livestreams)
- Lick Of The Week (explained in detail)
- Special guests (in selected livestreams)
- Q&A
I'm running an annual Guitar Retreat IRL at the Island Of Ven in southern Sweden.
tally.so/r/wbZBl6
Blue Monday Livestreams:
• Blue Monday Livestreams
Most of the guitars Homesick Mac is playing are made by the master luthier Michael Sandén:
www.sandenguitars.com
Homesick Mac's slides made by:
daddyslide.de/home_en/#signat...
diamondbottlenecks.com/Homesi...
I'm using Ecamm Live app for all my livestreaming:
www.ecamm.com/mac/ecammlive/?...
(this is an affiliate link that won't affect your price, but will give me a little commission and support the channel)
Recommended fantastic bags:
www.codeofbell.com/?rfsn=7384...
(this is an affiliate link that won't affect your price, but will give me a little commission and support the channel)
Recommended (affiliate link):
www.tubebuddy.com/homesickmac
Homesick Mac (Dragan Ruzic - Macan) is an acoustic (for the most part) guitarist and singer born in former Yugoslavia, now living in Sweden.
TIMESTAMPS:
00:00 Welcome all!08:15 Live Blues Backup
16:00 Why playing chords with slide?
18:55 The chords and lyrics to “Babe I’m Crazy About You”
21:40 Explanation of the chords
24:15 4 step method for clean slide tone
25:40 Let’s slide those chords
32:20 Vibrating and gliding to and from the chords
35:50 How to vibrate nicely…
40:40 Picking the strings within slided chords
52:40 Chord shapes played chromatically
55:50 Good tips for playing consistently
1:02:15 Cheers y’all, visit my socials!