The slide is awesome to play with, but hard. Do you all have any suggestions on slide guitar kind of things? Im going to get my pick ups installed in a couple of days. Cant wait, and any help with the slide stuff would be appreciated.
I played a lot of blues for a while, if you want to have some real easy fun with your slide...tune down to open D (DADF#AD) and just pump out a twelve-bar in D and flip some licks down on your bottom strings near the twelfth fret. It's pretty easy to make decent sounds from that, so you'll have fun right away.
Sheryl Crow has some songs with good slides in them (I forget which song I am thinking of, but she has a frew). A lot of blues, country, and old rock use slides. Ben Harper does a great slide on his version of Strawberry Feilds Forever. Check out some Emmy Lou Harris as well as Johnny Cash.
Matty Boom wrote:I played a lot of blues for a while, if you want to have some real easy fun with your slide...tune down to open D (DADF#AD) and just pump out a twelve-bar in D and flip some licks down on your bottom strings near the twelfth fret. It's pretty easy to make decent sounds from that, so you'll have fun right away.
it is really easy to play slide in an open tuning. but use your pinky cuz it will give you the most options. i'll explain later. to play I IV V blues. the I is open. you can accent it by playing around at the 3rd fret cuz that's where a lot of the blue notes show up. the IV is at the 5th fret and the V is at the 7th. now the trick is transfering all you know about open tunings back to standard and finding places to play slide in standard. open is nice but you really open up what slide guitar can do when you play in standard.
like you can bar the three high strings and that will be a minor of whatever the high E is. it's like moving an E minor chord around. then like A shape can be your major.
if you get really good (i am so close to being able to do this while jamming that it scares me) you can push down a string behind the slide and fret at the same time as you play slide. like if you have your slide at the 12th fret 3 high strings that's be a Em. but if you fret at the 11th on the b string and have the slide still at the 12th, that is a C7.
