Yea so I got a glass slide by Dunlop - http://accessories.musiciansfriend.com/product/Dunlop-202-Pyrex-Glass-Guitar-Slide?sku=364042&rec=product_A :D
I have the Yamaha Steel String (F310) whose action stays a little higher than usual. So, I am thinking of starting to learn some slidin' on it.
Any tips, suggestions on how to start will be helpful.
Thanks,
Rahul
Guitar is an individualistic instrument -- you can do anything you want with it -- but with slide it's even more so. This is what has helped me:
- Learning to mute strings with both hands makes single'string playing easier. Mute back of the slide with the sliding hand and with the palm of the picking hand.
- Try different slides. They are cheap, compared to guitars anyway, and different weights & materials will give you different information from the strings.
- For a couple weeks or so, play everything with the slide. Everything in your repertoire. Sometimes it will work, sometimes not, but you'll learn how to handle the slide.
- Put the picks down! At least try playing with bare fingers/nails. This lets you mute strings with your picking fingers & gives different sound possibilities using flesh, nail or a combination.
- Listen to every kind of slide playing you can get your hands on.
As always, your mileage may vary. Have fun!
"You can't write a chord ugly enough to say what you want to say sometimes, so you have to rely on a giraffe filled with whipped cream." - Frank Zappa
There are likely some basic slide lessons on this site.
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