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- Guys, it's Ariel Posen again,
with another video with Fender, thanks for having me.
Today, I wanted to talk about
open tuning with slides.
So, in the first video,
I was talking all about how I like to use a combination
of finger and slide playing,
which can be done in standard tuning,
but the same can be done in open tuning.
Open tuning doesn't necessarily just have to be for slide,
It can be for Knox slide playing,
but it does definitely lend itself
nicely to a lot of open tuning slide positions,
just because rather than when we're tuned in 4ths,
like playing our power chords like this and whatnot,
now all our major chords are like that,
and just like certain notes become a lot closer.
So, my approach actually stays the same
between standard and open tuning.
If you saw the last video,
we talked about playing behind the slide,
which is a big part of my playing.
In some ways there's a little bit less stretching
in open tuning.
I'm gonna show you the exact same positions
I did last time.
If you remember, we did this.
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Dominated in there.
There's a lot less moving around,
and the thing about open tuning,
that's nice is let's say you're playing in your open key.
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This is an open E Flat, by the way.
And I should just say what the tuning is.
If you don't know what open tuning is
typically it's like tuned like an E Major chord,
this shape and standard tuning.
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So I'm just tuned, like an open E-chord, but an E-flat
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So yeah, that behind the slide stuff is really nice
because you know our major chords,
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And we can actually do a lot of double stop
behind the slides
because our major chords
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are like this, we can do a lot of this kind of thing.
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So if I'm going from a B to an, A chord
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I'm kinda get like a dominant group thing going on.
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That's just one little idea.
Of course, you're not gonna fully learn open tuning today.
If you don't know it yet, I suggest spending the time.
But like I said, in the last video,
horizontal playing is still gonna be your best friend.
It's still gonna be the best sound
you're gonna get with the slide, that vocal
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So I suggest doing that, you know,
whatever string you're playing on,
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make sure you're on the tip of the string,
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Not playing with your knuckle.
So just as a general rule,
and if it helps to play in front of a mirror
or film yourself do that,
but whatever string you're on,
just picture yourself playing it without a slide.
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And by doing that,
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you should remember that if you have the slide on,
you wanna play on the tip, just like you would without it,
not with your knuckle.
'Cause we never play like this.
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So there's no point to start doing that with a slide.
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However,
if you are starting to get into open tuning
and you wanna say, okay, horizontal is fine,
but I wanna know my basic scales in open tuning.
Well, I'll show you how to play a minor pentatonic
and a major scale in open tuning,
from top to bottom.
Normally, you know, we have our position for pentatonic
that looks a little bit like this.
What happens is that because we're tuned in 5ths,
our 5th and 4th string,
everything moves down two frets,
our third string, everything moves down one fret
and then the E the B and the high E remain the same.
So it just takes a little bit of practice
and memorization really.
I don't think there's any skill behind it.
It's just a matter of time and doing it enough times
to kinda switch your brain between the two.
But it's gonna look a little bit like this.
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Now, a common position in open tuning
is the 5th position pentatonic.
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And it's really nice because there's not a lot of movement.
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To play with the slide,
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I think that's a big reason
why you hear stuff like this a lot.
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Kind of that same motif
works and a lot of that 5th position.
So once again, the 5th position
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So for the major scale,
it's gonna look a little like this.
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Kind of pretty busy,
kind of all over the place.
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With the slide again, it gives you this
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Again, that's what the behind the slide playing.
It's a bit more advanced and it's not that no one can do it.
Everybody can do it.
It just takes time.
And it just takes a little bit of that delicate touch.
You don't wanna be too hard with your left hand
or whatever your slide hand is
when you're doing the behind the slide step.
Just be delicate with it.
Take your time,
and just spend the time learning with tuning.
If you wanna get into open tuning,
I definitely suggest tuning to open E
'cause we're all used to standard tuning,
start where your positions are gonna be fairly close
to what you already know.
And then just go from there.
You're gonna know that,
okay, this is my eight chord normally,
so now it's this.
So if this was my A major seven,
I just need to think of the intervals,
one, seven, three, five.
So now an open tuning,
I just need to find the same intervals
one, seven, three, five.
I know that looks like a minor six shape,
but that's what switching between open tuning
and standard tuning is like.
So, it's a journey, it's a process,
I've spent years and years working on it
and I'm still working on it.
I'm still learning new things every day,
but I hope that helps you get started at least.
So thanks for watching the video.
Thanks again, Fender for having me
once again, my name is Ariel Posen
and we'll see you soon.