Quick Slide Question

well, i assume it would work, but wouldn't it be alot harder to play slide on a 12 string?

slide will work fine on a 12 string

well, i assume it would work, but wouldn't it be alot harder to play slide on a 12 string?

Yeah, what I was thinking is that maybe the neck would be too thick for the slide, so I'd need a longer one...

that too, but i was thinking about hitting the actual strings, cuz you would be forced to hit every string you want, and its double underneath it

There's quite a bit more rattle and buzz when you play 12-string with a slide, but it's part of the tradition. The noise comes in part from the way the octave strings and setup - oO - so the slide will make contact with the thicker string more than the thinner one. Unless you have the action up a bit and press down further.

Didn't Kottke have his 12-strings setup differently, like with the tops of the strings level and the bottoms - toward the fretboard - uneven?

Anyhow, you might also get a concave brass or pyrex slide (Dunlop makes some) that more closely follows the radius of the fretboard.

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Slide works great on twelve string. Give a listen to Leo Kottke's Six & Twelve String Guitar.

He wrote the book on twelve string slide. Start with Vaseline Machine Gun.

There's quite a bit more rattle and buzz when you play 12-string with a slide, but it's part of the tradition. The noise comes in part from the way the octave strings and setup - oO - so the slide will make contact with the thicker string more than the thinner one. Unless you have the action up a bit and press down further.

Didn't Kottke have his 12-strings setup differently, like with the tops of the strings level and the bottoms - toward the fretboard - uneven?

Anyhow, you might also get a concave brass or pyrex slide (Dunlop makes some) that more closely follows the radius of the fretboard.

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Thanks alot man, that helps... :)