Slides

Thomas · Post by **Thomas** » Sat Jul 24, 2004 8:38 pm

I was at the guitar store today and i came across a glass slide and since it was only five dollars i decided to get it, but i have no idea how to use the thing. does anyone know any info or a website that shows you how to play with a slide?

DMBFan63 · Post by **DMBFan63** » Sat Jul 24, 2004 9:22 pm

I basicly just mess around with it.
If you didn't know, easiest finger to use it on is your pinky. Just ask around for some good slides songs. Then just basicly play. I believe you're supposed to play more over the actual fret then the space inbetween them though..i don't know

Davy28 · Post by **Davy28** » Sat Jul 24, 2004 10:13 pm

Yeah. You play durectly over the fret, not in between them as you would with you fingers, kinda like doing a harmonic. I usualy put the slide on my ring finger, and lightly press it to the strings, but not so much that it touches the frets as you slide it. Then it sounds like crud. Slides are very sensitive, so be gentle with your playing.
They're great for using natural major and minor progressions. An example of a song I use it expressly on is rhyme and reason. the humming noise in the background(on the red rocks version, in this case) is timmy playing fills for the Gm scale. The same is true for his solo later on. Haynes does similar slide part with his verse backing for jimi, in this case the key of E major.
As you get better and get a feel for the orientation of scales, you can play multiple string and different scale fills like Ben Harper. Of course he uses a Dobro lap guitar in an open tuning like stefan's for GIG, but you can recreate this sound with a normal guitar and slide without much difficulty.

Ranting Thespian · Post by **Ranting Thespian** » Sat Jul 24, 2004 10:40 pm

Slides:

Glass - the best, great tone, grip, and just is the best. The problem, they can break easily, mine broke inside my guitar case because I threw things ontop of it (had to vacume it)

Brass - good, has a bit more high tone to it, and more of a metalic/steel guitar sound, but doesn't break. I have one since my glass one broke so easily (tim has a brass one as well).

Steel - very metalic sound, should only be used on an electric, it just sounds horrible on acoustic, IMO

i like tictacs · Post by **i like tictacs** » Sat Jul 24, 2004 11:42 pm

Tim used a glass slide at the D+F I was at.

lyrics101 · Post by **lyrics101** » Sun Jul 25, 2004 12:15 am

It's best to use a slide on your pointer finger, in my opinion, because it allows for you to use the other three, which become very useful.

Learn some Robert Johnson. He's a great slide player.

dmbguitar718 · Post by **dmbguitar718** » Sun Jul 25, 2004 11:16 am

lyrics101 wrote:It's best to use a slide on your pointer finger, in my opinion, because it allows for you to use the other three, which become very useful.

Learn some Robert Johnson. He's a great slide player.

.....or your pinky....

Davy28 · Post by **Davy28** » Sun Jul 25, 2004 4:29 pm

Which finger depends on the size of your hand.

NJPearce22 · Post by **NJPearce22** » Sun Jul 25, 2004 5:09 pm

There is a new bone slide in the musicians friend catalogue.

Ranting Thespian · Post by **Ranting Thespian** » Sun Jul 25, 2004 8:41 pm

NJPearce22 wrote:There is a new bone slide in the musicians friend catalogue.

I havn't gotten one of them in the mail for a while. I wonder if they just stopped sending them to me.

NJPearce22 · Post by **NJPearce22** » Sun Jul 25, 2004 9:42 pm

Ranting Thespian wrote:
NJPearce22 wrote:There is a new bone slide in the musicians friend catalogue.
I havn't gotten one of them in the mail for a while. I wonder if they just stopped sending them to me.

I got an email newsletter telling me I'd be getting one soon...next day it was in the mailbox. Maybe if you signed up for the mailing list you'd get some!

Thomas · Post by **Thomas** » Mon Jul 26, 2004 12:44 am

Ranting Thespian wrote:
NJPearce22 wrote:There is a new bone slide in the musicians friend catalogue.
I havn't gotten one of them in the mail for a while. I wonder if they just stopped sending them to me.

yeah, they stopped sending them to me too

maybe it's cuz i never ordered anything

HCHaikuWarrior · Post by **HCHaikuWarrior** » Fri Feb 11, 2005 4:44 pm

tim uses a steel one on the dvds i've seen (acoustic)

filmdude100cms · Post by **filmdude100cms** » Fri Feb 11, 2005 4:54 pm

yeah tim uses a steel rant, ive got many videos of him using it, and yes he can use a steel because hes the shit. i use my glass slide on my pinky so i dont have to set it down to use my othjer fingers, but usually i just hold it with my fingers for quick changes.

HCHaikuWarrior · Post by **HCHaikuWarrior** » Fri Feb 11, 2005 4:58 pm

so u just press it down very lightly? i wanna learn this very badly