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Slide Guitar Collection Companion
Audio tracks, backing tracks, scrolling TAB and notation videos, and book resources for Slide Guitar Collection: 25 Great Tunes for Slide Guitar by Brent C. Robitaille.
Use this page alongside the book to download the recordings, practice with backing tracks, stream the collection, follow selected tunes with scrolling TAB and notation videos, and quickly find the lessons, exercises, and reference charts you need.
Companion Audio
Download the Audio & Backing Tracks
Download the complete tune recordings and backing tracks for offline listening and practice. The files are provided as ZIP archives.
Slide Guitar Collection — Tune Tracks
Hear the complete arrangements from the book. Use the recordings to check melody, timing, phrasing, slide intonation, and overall sound as you work through each tune.
Slide Guitar Collection — Backing Tracks
Use the accompaniment tracks for play-along practice after you have learned the melody. They are a practical way to work on timing, tone, and playing each arrangement from beginning to end.
Listen Online
Stream the Slide Guitar Collection
Prefer to listen online? Use the SoundCloud player to hear the Slide Guitar Collection without downloading the ZIP file.
Follow the Music
Scrolling TAB & Notation Videos
Follow selected arrangements from the book on screen while listening to the recorded guitar part. The music scrolls with the audio so you can follow the standard notation and tablature as the tune plays.
These are music-following videos with recorded audio rather than live performance demonstrations.
Book Guide
Book Contents at a Glance
Use this guide to quickly find the slide guitar lessons, 25 tune arrangements, exercises, and reference charts in the book.
Getting Started — pp. 4–10
- Introduction pp. 4–5
- How to Read Tablature & Slide Notation Guide p. 6
- How to Play Slide pp. 7–10
25 Great Tunes — pp. 11–48
- House of the Rising Sun p. 11
- Scarborough Fair p. 12
- The Water Is Wide p. 13
- Be Thou My Vision p. 14
- Shenandoah p. 15
- Worried Man Blues p. 16
- Ode to Joy p. 17
- Little Brown Jug p. 18
- When the Saints Go Marching In p. 19
- Greensleeves p. 20
- Will the Circle Be Unbroken p. 21
- Wild Mountain Thyme p. 22
- Wayfaring Stranger p. 23
- Skye Boat Song pp. 24–25
- Amazing Grace pp. 26–27
- The Parting Glass pp. 28–29
- Danny Boy pp. 30–31
- Für Elise pp. 32–33
- Streets of Laredo pp. 34–35
- Bill Bailey pp. 36–37
- Saint Louis Blues pp. 38–39
- The Blue Danube pp. 40–41
- After You've Gone pp. 42–43
- Beale Street Blues pp. 44–45
- Air on a G String pp. 46–48
Practice
Slide Guitar Exercises
Pages 49–51 contain 12 short exercises for developing the control behind the tune arrangements. Use them separately whenever a particular technique needs extra work.
- Muting exercise
- Arpeggio exercise — play, mute, move
- Pitch and intonation exercise
- Slide, mute, and play with the first finger
- Tilt-slide 3rds
- Tilt-slide 6ths
- Tilt-slide boogie blues
- Pull-off exercise
- Hammer-on exercise
- Chord exercise
- Minor/major chord slide exercise
- Pedal-steel-style lick
Book pages: Slide Guitar Exercises, pp. 49–51.
See the Techniques
Watch Similar Slide Exercises in a Live Video
Want to see some of these slide guitar techniques played on the instrument? This live video comes from another Kalymi Music slide guitar resource and demonstrates exercises and techniques similar to those used in this book.
The exercises shown in the video are similar practice examples and do not match the exercises on pp. 49–51 note for note.
Guitar Reference Charts — pp. 52–54
- Guitar Note Chart — Strings 1–3 p. 52
- Guitar Note Chart — Strings 4–6 p. 53
- Guitar Fingerboard Chart p. 54
Next Steps
Continue Learning Guitar
When you are ready to go beyond the collection, continue with standard-tuning guitar lessons, songs, chords, rhythm, fingerstyle, slide, and practice resources in the Kalymi Music Guitar Learning Path.
Guitar Learning Path
Continue with chords, rhythm, songs, play-alongs, fingerstyle, slide guitar, and other practical standard-tuning guitar resources.
Slide Guitar Collection
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