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Post by walshb 🦒 on Jan 6, 2021 23:40:51 GMT -5
This is a nice short tutorial on playing slide in standard tuning. This is the way I've almost always played slide; I don't want to dedicate a guitar to open tuning slide, and it's actually easier for me, due to reasons stated in the article. Several examples are shown, some easy, some not so easy. My wife would cringe when I began learning slide, she remembers those days. I'll never be Duane Allman but I love playing slide and it's just become easier and easier. It took some practice, but not as much as you might think. I post this as encouragement to anyone who would like to learn slide, without learning a new tuning or dedicating a guitar to slide. Standard tuning slide
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Post by Riff Twang on Jan 7, 2021 1:55:02 GMT -5
Some guy that would occasionally post to the FDP (I think) has a short video tutorial on youtube he posted once that was well done and very informative. It covered a lot a lot of the basics in a few minutes.
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Post by ninworks on Jan 7, 2021 8:05:15 GMT -5
I initially learned to play slide in standard tuning as well. When I discovered open tunings my slide guitar world expanded drastically. I never used anything other than standard tuning playing live because I didn't want to bring another guitar to the gigs. Retuning between songs was out of the question.
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Post by walshb 🦒 on Jan 7, 2021 10:58:25 GMT -5
I initially learned to play slide in standard tuning as well. When I discovered open tunings my slide guitar world expanded drastically. I never used anything other than standard tuning playing live because I didn't want to bring another guitar to the gigs. Retuning between songs was out of the question. Totally agree. The only other viable option for me would be one of the robot tuning guitars. I actually think that would be fun, but I've heard good and bad things about them. I know there are a few people here that love theirs, and because of that, I would at least consider one if I wanted to learn to play in open tuning. But I have too much fun playing in standard, and it's less hassle.
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Post by LeftyMeister on Jun 30, 2021 15:48:41 GMT -5
Thanks for this, Bill. I intend to absorb it. I totally suck at slide but it's still on my bucket list.
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