Slide Guitar
Everything published on Viyolens under Slide Guitar — reviews, buying advice and how-tos written for players and producers in the UK.
Slide Guitar Slides Explained: Features, Types and Tips
Material, size, weight and finger choice all change how a slide feels and sounds. Here's what actually matters.
Guitar Slide Explained: Features, Types and Tips
A slide is the closest a guitar gets to sounding like a human voice. Here's how it works, what materials actually change, and where to start.
The Complete Guide to Resonator Guitar Guitars
The resonator guitar combines a unique metal cone resonator with expert lutherie to produce a bright, cutting tone perfectly suited to slide, bluegrass and contemporary acoustic music.
Guitar Slide: A Complete Buyer's Guide
Too big and it flops, too small and it pinches. Here's the honest, no-nonsense route through buying a guitar slide that actually fits your hand.
The Complete Guide to Slide Steel Guitar
The slide steel guitar produces uniquely expressive, soaring sounds. Learn what makes it special, which type suits you, and how to get started.
Common Guitar Slide Mistakes to Avoid
Most frustrating slide sessions trace back to one of nine avoidable mistakes. Here's the honest list, and the quick fix for each one.
The Ultimate Guide to Steel Pedals
Part slide guitar, part mechanical linkage system — here's what a steel pedal guitar actually is, how it works, and where its crying sound came from.
The Ultimate Guide to Lap Steel Guitar
From a Hawaiian beach to Nashville session rooms — the full story of the lap steel guitar, how it's played, and how it differs from its steel-guitar cousins.
Common Slide Guitar Slides Mistakes to Avoid
Most slide problems trace back to a handful of repeat offenders. Here's how to fix every one of them.
Slide Guitar Slides for Beginners: A Complete Guide
It looks effortless and feels genuinely odd for the first ten minutes. Here's a proper first-session walkthrough.
The Complete Guide to Delta Blues
Delta blues emerged from the Mississippi Delta and became one of music's most influential traditions. Rooted in African American experience and hardship, it shaped everything from rock and roll to hip...
Guitar Slide for Beginners: A Complete Guide
Every great slide player once sounded scratchy and out of tune too. Here's the exact step-by-step practice sequence to get past that stage fast.
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Delta Blues
Delta blues is a raw, acoustic blues style from the Mississippi Delta, built on voice, slide guitar and deep expression.
Guitar Slide
A guitar slide adds smooth, expressive phrasing and a distinctive tone for blues, rock and country playing.
Lap Steel Guitar
A distinctive slide instrument for smooth, sustained phrasing in country, blues, Hawaiian and experimental music.
Resonator Guitar Guitars
Distinctive resonator guitar guitars with bright projection, slide-friendly feel and strong roots music character.
Slide Guitar Slides
Slide guitar slides create the smooth, expressive sound needed for blues, rock and country slide playing.
Slide Steel Guitar
A slide steel guitar delivers smooth, expressive pitch movement for blues, country, Hawaiian and roots-inspired playing.
Steel Pedal
Durable steel pedal hardware for drummers who want stable feel, reliable action and dependable everyday performance.
