How to play slide guitar: 5 technique essentials

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Slide guitar is a fun technique used in many styles including blues and folk. It’s fluid, expressive and novel, and adds another string to your bow.

Slide guitar can also be quite tricky at the beginning. This is mostly because there are certain basic things you have to do differently to when playing guitar normally – and if you don’t do these things right, it’s just not going to work. 

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Ben Martin is CEO of online guitar lesson site GuitarTricks.com, home to over 11,000 video guitar lessons, scale and chord charts.