The “wiggle” or vibrato in playing slide guitar is very important! The “wiggle” can make the difference between a sterile, almost out of tune note and a note that almost has a singing quality to it! __(’Read the rest of this entry »’)
For many years, I just used standard tuning on my guitar when I played slide. E-A-D-G-B-E. I mainly used the slide to play the slide-lead guitar part of a song, playing chords during the rhythm parts with my other three fingers or just putting on the slide right before the lead. __(’Read the rest of this entry »’)
Things you’ll need:
1. A guitar (Acoustic or Electric)
2. A slide (made of metal or glass)
Ideally, for slide playing, your guitar should have higher action than normal. Higher action means your strings should be fairly high off the guitar’s fretboard. This allows good clean and clear sounding notes. If you have low action, your slide work could end up sounding like a kid raking an oak stick across a picket fence. Clack, clack, clack, etc. Don’t worry if your guitar has low action and you don’t want to change it. If you use a really light touch, slide work can still be pulled off.
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So you have a guitar now and you’re ready to take over the world. But…wait a second. The guitar’s out of tune and you have no idea how tune it! Never fear! Allegro Music World is here. There are many tunings for a guitar and actually several ways to tune a guitar. In this lesson, we will focus on standard tuning (the most widely used tuning) and just a few tuning methods.
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Who would you rather operate on you? A surgeon with all 4 fingers or one with only 3 fingers? Stupid question, huh? So why then do you refuse to use your pinky finger when you play the guitar? It will add to your speed and your reach and it’s actually alot easier on your hand. A few years back I noticed I was starting to develop a rather nasty condition. My hands, especially my left hand, would go to sleep on me
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