Slide Guitar!

I'm no slide master, but I've heard most slide guitar is done in alternate or open chord tunings, so I guess that would be the first place to start. I think open G and E are the most used.

Check out -I know, shut up already with it Taso- clapton's layla. Cool slide guitartowards the end ofthat song.

Not sure of your level but try this one:

https://www.guitarnoise.com/article.php?id=66

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Here is where you need to go for a quick intro to slide in oopen G:

http://www.tle.se/slideguitar.html

Good luck and let's hear how it's going!

Mathew

That is SO weird. I nearly posted exactly the same thread on here yeasterday as i am interested in learning it too.

Whoever said open tunings work well gave good advice, try open E tuning D A D F# A D, play around at frets 5, 7 and 12.

There is a nice bit about slide guitar on the Slowhand Blues website, its worth checking this out, with the added plus of a lot of good tabs of Clapton stuff.

And wear it on your pinkie to leave other fingers free to play notes / chord shapes.

I wish you luck, be interesting to hear how you get on.

Cheers

Matt

try open E tuning D A D F# A D

That would be open D. :) Also try DADGAD.

You can slide to any note in the key from two frets below it and it will sound good. Also use a lot of open strings.

Don't put one of those raised nuts on it. That's only for lap (or Hawaiian) style playing with a steel. For bottleneck it should still be frettable. Heavier strings and a slightly high action are advantageous for better supporting the slide so you don't knock into the fretboard as much, but it doesn't take any special setup to play slide. My teacher usually grabbed random new guitars off the music store racks, tuned 'em to Open D (occasionally E, G, A, whatever) and took off. It does take finesse with the slide to do this.

I took David Hodge's advice on this one......took the "old cheese-slicer", as he called it, used a fair bit of duct tape on it to stick it all together, raised the action and voila......a practise guitar!!! I usually keep it tuned in open G.......D G D G B D, from 6th to first, so you can see strings 2 3 & 4 aren't changed, while strings 1 5 & 6 are just tuned down 2 semi-tones. Next time I change strings on it, I'm going for a heavier gauge....the heavier the better seems to be the general consensus of opinion.

There are a couple of lessons on here worth a look......"If not for you" is a good introduction, with a couple of very useful tips......

And a couple of songs to practise?

Lookin' out my back door - CCR
Stand by me - Lennon
In my time of dying - Led Zep (sounds ambitious, but the main riff is pretty straightforward)
Little Red Rooster - Stones

Lookin' out my back door is particularly useful...try working out the solo in normal EADGBE tuning and playing it normally, then try playing it using slide....it'll give you a few pointers as to the different techniques required...

Vic.

The only slide guitar song that comes to my mind is "In My Time of Dying" by Zeppelin. Overall it looks like it'ed be a good place to start learning slide...

https://www.guitarnoise.com/led_zeppelin/physical_graffiti/in_my_time_of_dying_tab.txt