Fretboard Roadmaps - Slide Guitar by Fred Sokolow | Electric Guitar TAB and Standard Notation Method with Online Audio for Beginner to Advanced Players, Blues Styles, Open Tunings, Lead Skills

I'm a big fan of the Roadmaps books and I was looking for a general introduction to slide guitar. I can play slide in a very limited sense, but wanted a general nudge into more detailed info without being overwhelmed. Fred Sokolow organizes all of his books in a similar way. You learn chords and scales, how the chords are built, and some starter info in how it all fits together. This book is an excellent way to get started with slide and to understand it beyond using an open tuning and making a chord by barring across all the strings. The Roadmaps books, to me, excel at helping to visualize what you're learning. Affordable and well worth every penny.

I bought this book to help with my lap steel playing. After all, lap steel is playing slide in a more comfortable position. This book gives you the information you need to play licks in a blues scale for a number of different tunings. It does not give you all of the patterns you can use, but it will get you where you need to be. It also gives you information for forming minor chords in different locations on the freeboard. These are explained, and there is also a diagram of the location of the minor chords on the fretboard. The book is user friendly, but may be a bit difficult if you do not play guitar already.

This is the second fretboard roadmap series book I've read, and like the first it was easy to follow and understand with some useful tips for navigating the fretboard. Does the best job of relating various tunings to each other, of any book I've read covering that topic. Definitely worth the price.

If you want to learn slide guitar this is a good place to start. I am glad I bought it.

I know Fred Sokolow is a good series of guitar books, but when it comes to the "slide" books I am disappointed by this: his fret maps are the same as in other of his books that I have seen. When you "fret" a slide guitar you have to land the slide directly over the fret. When you make a chord or select a note on a non-slide guitar you have to land between the frets. It appears to me that the fret maps in his slide books are exactly the same maps that are in his regular guitar books and I find it frustrating to interpret. Time consuming. Most song or lick examples also have a tablature staff (TAB) that helps a lot in interpreting what the book is trying to teach you, and after you get used to using it, this can be very helpful.

helped me a lot with the slide as well as the bar

This book is a good basic source of exercises for beginning to intermediate slide guitar. The CD accurately reflects the written content. It could benefit from count-ins so you don't to catch up while accompanying, though. It could also have included more content for each tuning. Otherwise, not terrible.

Teaches what you need to know, I would buy this again , it compares way above other items in this price range.

Utilissimo per un primo approccio allo slide. Diverse accordature presenti tra cui anche lo standard tuning, con ottimi esempi,direi indispensabile!

Has everything to master slide guitar all the secrets

Interesting for slide learning

Un livre calamiteux et dérisoire. sur le Slide : 4 lignes (placement sur le manche; consignes que tout le monde connaît). Tout le reste, de vagues propos qui n'ont rien à voir avec le sujet et qq pages de partitions que l'on trouve dans beaucoup d'anthologies ("compils"). Morceaux à ne slider que si on le souhaite et tout compte fait pour pouvez tirer le tube sur n'importe quoi si cela vous plait. Lamentable (et vendu par Hal Leonard. On est déçu une fois sur deux par HL. Mais là, il se surpasse).

I already had Fred Sokolow's Fretboard Roadmaps for Blues, so this was a natural first port of call. For anyone stating out in slide guitar this is an excellent buy and at a good price too. Fred covers the basics and moves on to various open tunings, illustrated with specimen songs to learn and also the invaluable CD. Strongly recommended.