slide guitar basics

SPOTLIGHT5584 · Post by **SPOTLIGHT5584** » Mon Aug 20, 2007 12:57 pm

can anyone give me tips on just basic slide guitar...i am using an acoustic guitar with a metal slide.

Machtimus · Post by **Machtimus** » Mon Aug 20, 2007 6:04 pm

Keep the slide on either ring or pinky finger.
Keep very light pressure with the slide (you don't want to apply pressure as to lower the string).
You'll want to be right above the fret to hit the note.
Use vibrato.
Use your earlier fingers on the string (I'm not sure where I heard this, but it makes a cleaner sound).

RunsWithBuffalo · Post by **RunsWithBuffalo** » Mon Aug 20, 2007 7:05 pm

Machtimus wrote:Keep the slide on either ring or pinky finger.
Keep very light pressure with the slide (you don't want to apply pressure as to lower the string).
You'll want to be right above the fret to hit the note.
Use vibrato.
Use your earlier fingers on the string (I'm not sure where I heard this, but it makes a cleaner sound).

Yeah, almost as if you are muting the strings with the other fingers, but of course the strings will ring because of the slide.

Also, if you're just starting, its fun to tune to something like DADF#AD. Remember to go down to those notes and not up.

SPOTLIGHT5584 · Post by **SPOTLIGHT5584** » Mon Aug 20, 2007 10:33 pm

intresting alright ill see what i got haha