So, I've decided I'd like to learn me some slide gee-tar... I purchased a glass slide, now what? Anyone have any tips, advice, helpful links, etc?
I want to learn to play slide...
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Put it on your finger and start sliding. I think you are supose to do an open tune but you don't have to. I never really tried it that much but it's not hard. -
Yup. To play Ted Nugent's Hybernation you use your finger as a slide on standard tuning. It sounds cool. You can use any tuning and slide with anything.No! You can't have the keys to the wine cellar!Comment
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First off, adjust your settings on the guitar and amp to a fairly chunky and mildly distorted tone. Use a light touch, and let the weight of the slide and your hand dictate the clarity of the notes. The best place to start is by playing on the G & D (middle) strings. After a very brief period of time, you'll find yourself doing riffs like Zep's "In My Time Of Dying", which is a great tune to learn slide. From there, simply running through some standard blues scales will give you a feel for things, as you'll discover how to hand mute certain strings and dampen over-ringing tones.
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What next? Put the slide on your finger and pick some notes, pretending like you know how to play slide! Just kidding. I never really experimented with slide. I have one just in case, though. Me and my dad made one out of copper pipe, and sanded down the edges.
Fun to fart around on when i'm bored, but nothing too fancy ever came out of it. I mean, it's not like i've written songs with them. It just doesn't fit my style of playing...Reading Crazy From the Heat in four hours flat, in a cramped RV, on the return trip of a 3,000+ mile family outing to New Jersey is an enlightening experience you'll never forget.Comment
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If anyone wants a good slide for cheap, go out to the garage and look in the toolbox. Dig around on the bottom for the lawn mower's spark plug socket. Clean it out with some WD 40, then wrap some paper towels around your middle finger to make it fit snugly. Ta-da!
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DJ already posted an excellent example in Trucks, he's probably one of the best young slide players out there at the moment; also dive back into Jeff Beck, Duane Allman, Ry Cooder - anything like that you can get your hands on, really. DJ's given me pointers on slide technique (dude is a burner) and one of the best bits of advice he gave me is to listen more for the pitch you're shooting for rather than looking to see if you're directly over the correct fret (since obviously the pitch you're shooting for ISN'T going to be between the frets as if you were depressing the string to sound the note manually).
First tune I ever taught myself the slide solo to - was Zeppelin's "What Is and What Should Never Be"....classic, artful shit! It wasn't easy, and becoming a GOOD slide player isn't easy I'm finding...gotta say the piece that still gives me fits is Jeff Beck's "Nadia".Originally posted by conmee
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Playing slide kind of reminds me of finger banging a chick.No! You can't have the keys to the wine cellar!Comment
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DJ's given me pointers on slide technique (dude is a burner) and one of the best bits of advice he gave me is to listen more for the pitch you're shooting for rather than looking to see if you're directly over the correct fret (since obviously the pitch you're shooting for ISN'T going to be between the frets as if you were depressing the string to sound the note manually).
I tried on and off, over the years, to get a handle on playing slide. I'd always get frustrated and forget about it for a while. It wasn't until witnessing Warren Haynes up close at a Govt. Mule show 16 years ago that I "got it". From that point on it was easy and effortless once I understood the technique.
I'd dabbled with open tuning, and I do enjoy it, but I found it a bit limiting in some ways. But standard tuning is way to go, (for me). That said, it's good to play and feel comfortable in both methods of tuning....
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