Mel Bay's Getting into Slide Guitar (Getting Into) (Mel Bay's Getting Into...)
Edition: Pap/Com edition
Publisher: Mel Bay Publications, Inc.
Published: February 1, 2004
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 96
ISBN-13: 9780786668014
Subjects: Musical Instruments - Guitar; Music/Songbooks; Music; Instruction & Study - Techniques
First sentence: I'm choosing to spend the largest amount of time in this book focussed on open-G tuning, both because of its similarities to standard guitar tuning (three of the strings stay the same from standard tuning), and because of its sonic characteristics - the growling lower strings, the easy access to very low notes and octaves, and the ease in which you can switch between playing both in a major tonality, or with a darker minor sound - these are all advantages when it comes to playing blues.