0:00 Intro 1:05 Building Blocks 10:00 Left Hand Positioning, Right Hand Muting 17:17 Tuning and Chord Voicings 25:24 Major and Minor pentatonic scale 36:16 Between Two Frets 47:07 Duane Allman - Statesbourough Blues 53:06 Duane Allman - Stand Back 1:02:35 Derek Trucks - Midnight in Harlem 1:17:57 Derek Trucks - Amazing Grace 1:28:40 Jeff Beck - Cause We Ended As Lovers 1:39:03 Jeff Beck - Where Were You 1:48:16 Catching Harmonics 1:55:04 Volume Pedal 2:02:18 Closing Remarks

Forget any other lesson on playing slide, this is the most comprehensive, concise building block on fundamentals video out there. I watch a ton of these and get bits and pieces but this one is by far the best from A to Z.

This is by far the best Slide tutorial you can find on KZfaq, there are a lot of great stuff but none of them explain slide like this dude

This video is such a gold mine.

This is the most underrated channel on KZfaq. Thank you so much for this lesson! This might be the best guitar lesson on the internet. Thank you!!!

wow, this video is amazing! The fact that you released it for free is just a testament to how awesome a person you are Jules. Many, many thanks

best slide video i have found. a gold mine as other viewers have said

I would pay good money for this all to be tabbed out. The moveable theory around 24 minutes is so priceless; this is always the first thing I look for and very few people consider it worthwhile. Thank you!

An amazing class by an amazing guitarist. Congratulations Jules (and team) for putting together this awesome masterclass.

How does this only have 148 likes??? I've learned more about slide playing the 2 hours of watching this than the 20 years I've wandered in the wilderness since picking up a slide. First of all: Jules, you are an outstanding and thoughtful guitar player. A brilliant mesh of technique and raw expression. Second: holy shit my man, you are a gifted teacher. Your ability to convey the language of slide guitar in a concise and captivating manner is next level. You really brought it with your analyses of Duane, Derek, and Jeff. Bravo!

I’ve wanted to get into slide guitar for a long time but, it’s been difficult to find a good lesson series that starts from A and goes to Z…this is like an answered prayer. I’m glad I found your channel!!!

Absolutely fabulous! Just hearing the tone throughout the lesson inspires me to go play. Thanks Jules!

The 'between two frets' thing made me finally click with slide playing. Thanks Jules

This is brilliant. Well done.

Thanks Jules for the great masterclass!

This is awesome. You are a spectacular slide player!

Super cool masterclass, Jules. Congratulations.

I have goofed around with slide for years, mostly in the Elmore James shuffle style, but have been waiting to find a good in depth lesson just like this! I'm off to the races with you and I guess off to a good start since I already wear the slide on my pinky! Thank you for this lesson, Jules.

This is awesome, Jules!

Incredible video! Thanks for uploading it!

Wow! Thank God I found your channel. You have a new subscriber

Thanks for this! I have always been super intimidated by slide playing. Gonna try to apply some of this now!!! Great licks - and I love the application of slide to Jeff Beck!

Great video Jules, Nicely Done.

Thanks so much…been looking for a beginning to slide…would love to see some delta accoustic type of work as well❤🎸🎶

Good stuff Jules!!! I’ve been playing slide for a while and I enjoyed your thought out approach, along with the passion you shared on the subject!

The drill that starts at 3:09 is one I do every day now for 3 months. It has a lot to give, including, at least for me, an awareness of a light touch on the strings. If I drill this for 3 minutes and I allow any finger to press too much on its string, a depression or notch begins to develop in the finger. This notch does two things: 1) makes it harder to move because the finger gets hung up, and 2) it makes the picking surface wider because more finger is touching the string. More finger touching at the moment of release means the highs are damped before the finger lifts up and gets out of the way of the string vibration. So my success criteria has become: if there are significant notches in my fingers after 3 minutes, go back and focus on a lighter touch.

Masterclasses should look to this video as example of how to do it right.

Holy shit, can't wait to go through this. Jules, you're the man!

I was so fixated on your hands at 35:10 that I failed to notice your right leg working the volume pedal. Another lesson learned.

I've been playing for quite some time but never found really good tutorials to see what I could add or focus on. Lots of people who just don't play slide well enough or can't explain it clearly. Thanks for adding the small harmony parts, and where to find certain notes. Someone else said it too, but this is by the best slide lesson there is on youtube.

oh. my god i can't wait to dive in

Well done Jules! Thank you for going beyond the basics!!! There are a LOT of slide lessons/tutorials on YT that don’t go past the basics of slide. I consider myself an intermediate slide player and this was great. The right-hand muting exercises at the beginning are a great warmup for all levels. Kudos and thank you! 🙏

Great Video. Very helpful.

Absolutely Brilliant Guitar lesson ! ! TRUELY GREAT STUFF ! ! THANKS AGAIN ! 👍 CHEERS !!!🙂

Ian Thornley is my favorite slide player. I believe he is a big Sonny Landreth fan.. which makes me want to study both of them. 😊

Incredible

Killing dude!!

This was incredible, thank you!

tooo good 🙌🏻😀 and your slide playing is so great too!

Wow! Great lesson! Thank you!

In depth, informative. Really got a ton out of this. Thank you!

Mind blown! Thank you for this.

I have been playing in Open E for 20 years now. I found after 10 years of playing mostly blues that now I find it fun transposing songs that I never liked to play (or wouldn’t play) in standard tuning but now it is a challenge to figure out how to transpose them in my head in Open E.

a bit yappy... in places... all in all verry cool and helpful...great bits....cheers

Amazing resource.

Such a great video really impressed by how much info is in this. One thing I might have missed was setup. I’m just curious what strings and action height you are using.

Really awesome.

Man, fantastic lesson. ❤

dude you took so much time to put this together, and really explain everything, and include timestamps, and you're actually really a fuckin killer on slide.. and you focus on derek & duane.. I mean, I feel like you should have way more subscribers than you do. I hope you do one day. Thanks for this enormous free clinic on slide. Very appreciated bro.

Outstanding

I may be underestimating, but there is at least a year of material here for the intermediate player.

I came into this thinking "Bullshit. There's no slide guitar master class unless Ry Cooder or Sonny Landreth are conducting it". But, damn was I wrong. This video is an absolute master class. Even delving into some theory without it actually sounding like a dissertation on the subject. I'm constantly amazed at just how many solid relatively-unknown slide players there are out there. Ian Thornley being one of my favorites. But, after fiddling with slide for 25 years, I find it easier to progress with it and emulate other players than I do playing standard guitar. Once i learned how to apply consistent vibrato and play a bit behind the slide, everything else is using my ears to make the guitar sing the song I wish I could sing with my voice. The biggest tip I can give to new slide players is good slide fit. I started playing with my ring finger because the slide I had was big, even for the ring finger, and definitely too big for my pinky. With it on my pinky, I was tensing up to bend the pinky a bit to keep the slide from slopping around. Once I moved to a better-fit slide for my pinky, I started using that digit exclusively.

The exercise at 3:10 is quite literally the gateway to slide guitar. I start my daily practice with it, and without that pluck and mute control, you just can’t play clean single lines.

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Wow man, this video really does what it says on the tin! A true thorough masterclass. I wanted to ask if you were using a volume pedal, but I should’ve watch until the end first. I did kinda miss a ‘tone’ section, I’m curious what you’re using as a drive pedal…seems like the amp, watching till the end…I struggle to get more sustain without having to add a lot of gain. Really great lesson, especially on the scale section. I play standard tuning slide most of the time, but I got a lot out of it. Take care

Dear Jules: thanks so much for this…tuning my Les Paul to open E, makes me wonder what string gauge you’d recommend and what about how you set your action? Having a hard time fretting behind the slide with my usual ‘10’s. Thanks in advance! Kind regards from Amsterdam

Any advice on guitar setup? Higher nut ? Thicker strings? Raised bridge? Or are there some secrets you want to keep?

Hey Jules, fabulous class! Can’t seem to find which volume pedal you have there listed in the gear? Active/passive etc. Info would be great. Thanks!

Great video. Dumb question: when you demo’d the minor chord, you have to lift up the slide to let, in your case, the index finger fret the note, right?

This is AWESOME Jules! Such a treasure man! What amp are you playing?

At 35:14 during that 7 10 12: you pluck only once but you manage to extract so much out of the energy in the string without plucking again. Even at the end of the lick there is still enough energy in the string to keep going. How do you do that?

Tone is incredible. What are your amp settings?

Are you picking with your thumb or only muting with your thumb?

Great playing , Good vid . Too much talk .... And I am a music instructor .I need to stop talking so much myself .

slowly show your tech .....over and over .......

Uh... thank you!!! ❤

Jules. This video is special. I've been studying it for days. Please give me your paypal account so i can pay for it. You deserve it. (I am also a content creator here in YT)