MWH Posted February 20, 2020 Posted February 20, 2020 So, does anyone here play with a slide ?, and if you do, can you give me some hints and tips please ?, presently tuned open D, is even that right ?, thanks. 1
ezbass Posted February 20, 2020 Posted February 20, 2020 (edited) Any tuning is ‘right’. However, I found taking off the E string and tuning to open G, like Keef and Chris Rea, gave the most pleasing results (you can also leave the E string on and down tune it to D). You can get some nice chord voicings by fretting notes behind the slide. If you haven’t already, check out Sonny Landreth, IMO the king of slide. Edited February 20, 2020 by ezbass 1
Teebs Posted February 20, 2020 Posted February 20, 2020 3 hours ago, MWH said: So, does anyone here play with a slide ?, and if you do, can you give me some hints and tips please ?, presently tuned open D, is even that right ?, thanks. Fairly self-explanatory, I'd have thought?!?!?! 1
MWH Posted February 24, 2020 Author Posted February 24, 2020 On 20/02/2020 at 16:23, Teebs said: Fairly self-explanatory, I'd have thought?!?!?! Sigh ....
Si600 Posted February 24, 2020 Posted February 24, 2020 On 20/02/2020 at 17:23, Teebs said: Fairly self-explanatory, I'd have thought?!?!?! Twerp. 1 1
ezbass Posted February 24, 2020 Posted February 24, 2020 Every fool knows you can’t use a plastic slide on guitar, sounds awful. 2
MWH Posted February 25, 2020 Author Posted February 25, 2020 Who's that chap that plays in the Mick Fleetwood band ? , he plays some songs with a slide, i must check him out, answers on a postcard ....
songofthewind Posted March 11, 2020 Posted March 11, 2020 Ry Cooder is a master of emotional slide playing. Also Lowell George. 1 1
EliasMooseblaster Posted August 14, 2020 Posted August 14, 2020 Big fan of slide guitar myself. Open D's good, as is open G - sometimes it's easier to retune than start faffing with capos halfway up the neck! I believe there are even a few masochists who keep their guitars in standard, but they tend to be lead guitarists like Joe Perry or Ritchie Blackmore, who just use it for the odd solo here and there. Are you learning slide on acoustic or electric? In a bid to get the hang of it, I invested in a second acoustic guitar which I could slap some heavy strings on and leave in an open chord tuning (D and G are good for counteracting the extra tension from a set of .16s) - as luck would have it, it turned out resonators were available at a similar price point to mid-level standard acoustics. Conversely, if you're learning on electric, open E and A are worth exploring - the extra tension can help stop the slide knocking on the frets!
