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Location: Stow, Ohio | I have recently started messing around with slide.
Tune the geeter to open G and pretend I am Sleepy Liver Rivers...oh wait I am.
anyhoo. Since I since I aquired the Celebrity, I now have two acoustics. go figure I never was one for acoustics untill recently. so I pretty much leave the Samick tuned for slide. mainly because it has the higher action as well.
So if anyone has any slide tips for a slide noob, I would appreciate it. |
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Location: Scotland | Slide guitar has been discussed very recently. Try using the search function between directory and FAQ, at the top of the webpage |
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Location: Sunshine State, Australia | Originally posted by Paul Templeman:
Slide guitar has been discussed very recently. Try using the search function between directory and FAQ, at the top of the webpage Words of wisdom from the unofficial OFC slide man! :) |
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Location: GA USA | Yes. Try the search, and go to
Big Road Blues
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Also, search Youtube. |
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Location: 6 String Ranch | Yes, slide on over to Big Road Blues. The big decision will be to put it on your pinky or ring finger. Decide early and stick with it. I vote for pinky. |
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Location: Scotland | It's the only way. Unless you happen to be Bonnie Raitt. |
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Location: NJ | Try as I may t'stick with it on my pinky, I keep having better success on the ring finger . . .
My hand just feels more "natural" and "comfortable" muting behind the slide when it's on my ring finger.
I think I just need more tequila . . . |
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Location: Phoenix AZ | Cliff, YSBT !!!!
We did a lot of slide at the Dowling clinic. I was torn at first ring vs. pinky. Definately I felt more comfortable with it on my ring, but we did a lot of mix slide and non slide on the same few bars. Rethinking how to finger a simple D chord shape for example, withOUT using your ring finger was a bit of a task. Since the clinic I have been practicing (8 hours a day, right students?) with slide on my pinky. Chording is much easier with my three "main" fingers and I'm getting more control of the slide by kind of "pinching" it with my ring finger. You gotta hear some slide on my baritone uke!
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Location: NJ | THANKS for rubbing it in, Dave!!!
You should REALLY consider doing uke concerts at the local Hospice Centers . . dressed as the GrimReaper . . . |
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Location: NJ | I just gotta practice with the pinky more
(ACTUALLY, I just gotta' PRACTICE more!!).
I might just try a smaller/lighter slide as well.
I've got one of those hand-blown Nunwell's from Matt, and I LOVE the "tone" of it, but the only one that "fit" me (at the time) was rather large & hefty. Wish he was gonna back this year so I could get another.
btw:
My partner Rick LOVED that slide so much that last year I picked one up for him from Matt.
A couple weeks ago, he "dropped" it at a gig (on a tile floor) . . .
I don't think I've EVER seen anything shatter into SO many "little" pieces as that thing!!!
If y'got one of these . . . DON'T drop it!!! |
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Location: Phoenix AZ | Originally posted by cliff:
I might just try a smaller/lighter slide as well. I've got one of those hand-blown Nunwell's from Matt, and I LOVE the "tone" of it, As with anything that slips over a part of your anatomy, fit is very important. Hand blown is good.
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Location: Indiana | I move the slide from finger to finger, depending on what I am doing during the rest of the song. Sometimes even on middle finger. When I play out however it is always in the same place (at home). I'm the bass player in the band.
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Location: 6 String Ranch | Only Bonnie can use the middle finger. Sonny Landreth uses the ring. Maybe Duane did too? For electric at big volumes this offers a good way to damp both in front and behind the slide. For acoustic the damping in front of the slide really gets done with the other hand(the right hand) so it's not an issue and Dave's points above about having your three main chording fingers available make a lot of sence.
Been working on a new slide tune today. The Nunwells come in all interior sizes Cliff, next time you're up we can go see him, he's only 10 miles from Mountain House. They have the best tone for acoustics that I've found. |
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Location: Capital District, NY, USA Minor Outlying Islands | Look up books dealing with landreth's style. He may even have one; he had a recent article in Guitar Player. Seems the most accessable. |
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Location: GA USA | Elliot, Go HERE. I've been enjoying videos by this guy, Keni Lee Burgess. Now he has lessons on youtube.
Hope your sliding is progressing. |
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Location: nyc area | Just got a new shipment of Nunwells... Eme if interested... matt at mattsmithsworld dot com |
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Location: Sunshine State, Australia | Originally posted by Captain_Lovehandles:
I've been enjoying videos by this guy, Keni Lee Burgess. Now he has lessons on youtube. Thanks for that link cap'n. I've dowloaded all of his lessons and I'll get stuck into it at a later date. |
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Location: Campbell River, British Columbia | Originally posted by Tupperware:
Hand blown is good.
Dave But a bit of an oxymoron. |
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Location: Flushing, MI | Here's a sample of my slide playing. Scroll down to "Wartime Blues" to hear my slidin' in open G tuning on a Celebrity CS257.
I use either a copper slide, and sometimes heavy glass on my middle finger. I can't make it work on my pinky for some reason. I use standard, open G, and D tunings.
My Stuff |
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Location: GA USA | Trag, that's awesome. I sampled a lot of your songs. There are often people who point you to their Soundclick pages to hear their music. Most of the time, I'm thinking "if I can't say something nice..."
You've got a really rich quality to your voice. Very nice. And the guitar work was inspiring. |
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Location: Flushing, MI | (blushing) Thank you so very much! |
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Location: GA USA | You may have seen the post at Big Road Blues, but the concensus over there is that if you're looking for a beginner resonator, you can't go wrong with THIS ONE .
$150.00! My apologies to my very good OFC friend with whom I've been discussing what reso to buy. I know we were gonna work together, but I went ahead and bought a green one. I figure when I upgrade, I can sell this one for $100 and I'm still good.
Looks like only the green and blue are still available. |
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Location: Central Massachusetts | Jas, you are trying to get me in trouble. |
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Location: 6 String Ranch | Yeah, that reso looks pretty good. Gotta take it out in the back yard and drag it around for 3 hours in the dirt and drop it a few times. One or two carefully placed dents on the face and take some 60 grit to where you strum. NOW that will be lookin real fine and will have much mo blooze tone. |
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Location: GA USA | Oddly, DVD and I were in exactly the same boat as far as what we were looking for. Stand firm, bro. I may be Capt. Compromise, but we all know you're a better man than I.
This wasn't EXACTLY what I wanted to start with, but so darned cheap it was close enough for now.
Thanks for the encouragement, Bill. That may just be the ticket. Or I could stencil the Capt lovehandles logo big on the back. |
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Location: GA USA | Whoops, I just read your PM. Like I always said, you're a weak minded lemming. :) |
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Location: GA USA | Update... mine came today. It's at home, but the Adman opened it, tuned it to open D and started sliding. Said it sounded good with the Moonshine ceramic slide. I'll see it in 4 hours.
DVD won't get his until Monday...hahahaha |
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Location: GA USA | In case you thought you heard something thru the grapevine, here it is.
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Location: Central Massachusetts | Jas, I'm not sure this is the appropriate venue for showing off our Johnsons. But since you started it.. here's my blue johnson, freshly polished.. (more pics in my gallery)
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Location: GA USA | I suppose your neighbors have been calling to ask when Temp showed up for a visit? I know mine have. Or maybe not, but I was playing in the bedroom last night and my dog started barking outside the window. |
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Any slide players here?