Slide Guitar - Lesson 18
- Thread starter Brian Haner Sr.
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I am legitimately just watching for entertainment....Could listen to Papa Gates all day.
BAD HUSBAND!!! Precisely the reason I use metal slides. I use this one:
Thanks for the link ! Is there a major difference in tone/sound (idk what you call it lol) between the glass and metal ? I just picked the glass because it felt super light......which may be why the heifer broke into a million pieces. Lol
7 months later and I still haven’t gotten another slide lol. I’m going tomorrow to get one though !!!! Gonna play me some Skynyrd 
I got a slide !!! This was my first attempt with it. i got so incredibly frustrated. So much to figure out. Which finger I like, how much pressure to apply, and actually playing over the fret not on the middle, that seems to be the most difficult thing to keep in mind.
You've got the start of the mechanics down, Alicia. Your muting behind the slide is good. I actually just ordered one of those Papa slides. I've been using glass for decades and I just haven't felt inspired by it in a long time, so I'll see what happens. I've always put it on the ring finger too.
Yay ! I was really trying to mute like papa said in the video , the sound is shit but for my first attempt I was excited I atleast got some kind of sound lol. I bought a glass slide many months ago and only got to use it for like one minute literally before I broke it lol. I’m too clumsy for glass objects
I can’t wait to hear you playing some slide guitar ! No doubt it’s going to be fucking beautiful !!!
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Yay ! I was really trying to mute like papa said in the video , the sound is shit but for my first attempt I was excited I atleast got some kind of sound lol. I bought a glass slide many months ago and only got to use it for like one minute literally before I broke it lol. I’m too clumsy for glass objects
I can’t wait to hear you playing some slide guitar ! No doubt it’s going to be fucking beautiful !!!
I have WAY less time in with it than Papa does. I played slide for one song with my old band in the mid-90s. It was a heavier song, and I used the slide full-crunch. I also did use hybrid stuff like Papa talked about, playing fretted notes along with it, but nothing to papa's level.
Question! So, I Know PG talked about open tunings but said that he himself doesn't typically use them.
I've looked online and I can't really find out why open tunings are used, but I was wondering if it makes it sound better?
I know its only my second day trying it, but even when I get a note/slide and it sounds accurate, it still kind of just sounds like shit. Like the tone of the note sounds really ugly, if this makes sense..
Does an open tuning make it sound better ? I saw that open E is the most common tuning for it.
I've looked online and I can't really find out why open tunings are used, but I was wondering if it makes it sound better?
I know its only my second day trying it, but even when I get a note/slide and it sounds accurate, it still kind of just sounds like shit. Like the tone of the note sounds really ugly, if this makes sense..
Does an open tuning make it sound better ? I saw that open E is the most common tuning for it.
It works in the same way that Drop D works for power chords, but with a slide and across all six strings.
thanks Ed ! You’re the best !!!
Yeah. Basically you can play an entire chord with the slide on one fret. There are also some soloing advantages - esp using a G tuning. D G D G B D. (drop the two E strings to D and the A string to G). The big advantage here is there is a minor 3rd between the top 2 strings instead of a 4th. Very musical!
so, it’s been awhile ! I’ll admit I stopped practicing this for awhile because I got ridiculously frustrated. I’m still slightly frustrated but having more fun haha. I am having some issues such as sustaining multiple slides if anyone has a suggestion for that I would love to hear it !
I didn’t post to the riffs because I’ve not seen anyone else doing slide, so I figured this was the best place for my video.
