https://guitarnoise.forum/slide-and-alternate-tunings/n-yet-another-noob/ Guitar Noise Discussion Board en-US Thu, 04 Jun 2026 07:26:04 +0000 wpForo 60 https://guitarnoise.forum/slide-and-alternate-tunings/n-yet-another-noob/#post-111394 Fri, 15 Jul 2005 04:16:41 +0000 Slide and Alternate tunings Ricochet https://guitarnoise.forum/slide-and-alternate-tunings/n-yet-another-noob/#post-111394 https://guitarnoise.forum/slide-and-alternate-tunings/n-yet-another-noob/#post-111273 Thu, 14 Jul 2005 19:32:40 +0000
Try playing with the slide on the 2nd and 4th strings, ignoring/muting the others, up high beyond the 12th-fret.

First just do the usual parallel straight-slide deal, moving up 'n' down.

Then find good sounding slants where the 2nd-string is a half-step lower than the 4th-string. Like, over the 13th and 14th frets.

Alternate between straight and slant slide-positions, as sounds good to your ear. You'll be going between minor and major intervals, etc., so that it sounds "in tune" and "in key" with whatever key-center you wind up in.

After getting comfy with that, try adding some fretted bass-notes on the 5th-string at the same time as the slide-notes.

When you've got a few miles under your belt there, try letting the bass-notes on the 5th-string alternate with slide-notes on that same string, along with the slide-notes on the 2nd and 4th strings...

I have a little instrumental ditty in Am that uses the specific moves outlined in my previous post, going on down the neck. I'll have to finally record it again, and post it here...

:idea: The trick isn't the trick, so's t'speak, but to make it sound like it ISN'T a trick, but just music! :)]]> Slide and Alternate tunings Caevan O'Sh!te https://guitarnoise.forum/slide-and-alternate-tunings/n-yet-another-noob/#post-111273 https://guitarnoise.forum/slide-and-alternate-tunings/n-yet-another-noob/#post-111258 Thu, 14 Jul 2005 18:16:30 +0000
Thanks!
:lol:]]> Slide and Alternate tunings Ricochet https://guitarnoise.forum/slide-and-alternate-tunings/n-yet-another-noob/#post-111258 https://guitarnoise.forum/slide-and-alternate-tunings/n-yet-another-noob/#post-111194 Thu, 14 Jul 2005 08:38:17 +0000 yoyo286!

The link is in the signature-line below; it should be working.

Hey, Ricochet, good to see you here!

Say, f'r instance, that you slant the slide so that you're playing the "C" and "E" over the 13th and 14th frets on the 2nd and 4th strings, respectively, with an "A" fretted by your 1st-finger on the 5th-string at the 12th, outlining a finger-picked "Am" triad; then move down to "B" and "D" on the 2nd and 4th strings over the 12th-fret with the slide, and fret "G" on the 5th at the 10th for a "GMaj", and slip in an alternate "A" (over the 12th-fret with the slide, by lifting your fretting-finger up and letting the string contact the slide) on the 5th and back to "G" with the 2nd and 4th still ringing... that's what I'm talking about there. It's actually MUCH simpler in practice than it is to explain in writing! The concave-radiused, flared brass slide I have makes this stuff easier than with a straight-walled slide, too.

Hey, you've got to get Lee Flier over here; y' ever hear her playing slide on her '52 "gold-top" on the song, "For Love, Or Money"? (Her band is the trio, What The... ?.)]]> Slide and Alternate tunings Caevan O'Sh!te https://guitarnoise.forum/slide-and-alternate-tunings/n-yet-another-noob/#post-111194 https://guitarnoise.forum/slide-and-alternate-tunings/n-yet-another-noob/#post-111172 Thu, 14 Jul 2005 07:06:13 +0000 Slide and Alternate tunings yoyo286 https://guitarnoise.forum/slide-and-alternate-tunings/n-yet-another-noob/#post-111172 https://guitarnoise.forum/slide-and-alternate-tunings/n-yet-another-noob/#post-111166 Thu, 14 Jul 2005 06:52:58 +0000
Welcome!]]> Slide and Alternate tunings Ricochet https://guitarnoise.forum/slide-and-alternate-tunings/n-yet-another-noob/#post-111166 https://guitarnoise.forum/slide-and-alternate-tunings/n-yet-another-noob/#post-10253 Thu, 14 Jul 2005 06:46:53 +0000
I play a little slide now and then, always fingerstyle (slide or not), in either Open-D or standard tuning. I love what can be done with a few "Benders", but I've yet to find just the right mechanical unit for me.

I really like playing slide (and fretted, or both) in Open-D, but I also like how you can play very melodically in standard, and the way you can use a slanted-slide position in standard to play diatonically harmonized double-stopped intervals on the 2nd and 4th or 1st and 3rd strings, and even throw in fretted or slide-stopped bass-notes underneath on the 5th or 4th strings.

I currently play on either of two Gibson Les Pauls, one of which is eqipped with P-90 "soapbars" and set-up and strung for Open-D. That one used to have three Epiphone E-Z Bender units on it, but I've taken them off. (You can hear me playing that guitar, in Open-D, both clean "rhythm" and overdriven "lead" lines, if you clonk on my signature below; no slide, but me on that guitar with just a little 'Bender work. I'll have to get some slide-work up sometime...)

My overall favorite slide is a bell-brass Dunlop "Harris Slide", which has concave-radiused sides and a flared shape that is bigger with more mass on one end. It sounds warmer than any other metal slides that I've used, and the concave-radius allows both a lower action with less fret-crash, and more clearence for behind-the-slide-fretting a la Sonny Landreth.

I also love my ceramic "Moonshine" and big Pyrex slides (same one as Sonny Landreth), also Dunlops, though they're straight-walled. I can get a very, very similar tone with the brass one, but if I could have the same radiused/flared shape in those same ceramic and Pyrex materials, I'd be very happy!

And I love DR "Pure Blues" strings, .011" through .050" for standard, and a mixed-gauge set of .012" through .052" for Open-D.

Glad to come by!]]> Slide and Alternate tunings Caevan O'Sh!te https://guitarnoise.forum/slide-and-alternate-tunings/n-yet-another-noob/#post-10253