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If it is held normally then the player puts a covering on one of the fingers on his or her left hand and makes sound by sliding the left hand up and down the strings.Guitar Pro 5 Tabs The object covering the players’ fingers is often referred to as a bottleneck because that was the first material used. If the player holds the guitar horizontally then the player uses a steel, which is similar to a bottleneck but, not surprisingly, composed of steel. To play the guitarist will slide the steel up and down the frets of the guitar. This is referred to as playing a “steel guitar”.
The slide or steel guitar is an essential part of popular music. While it is true the genres of soul, country and jazz have had their share of great slide guitarists throughout the years, legendary slide guitarists always seem to gravitate towards the blues. Robert Johnson, Muddy Waters, Eric Clapton, B.B. King, for example, Name a blues luminary and chances are he is an accomplished slide guitarist. So if you want to play blues guitar or soul or country or any of a number of other genres you’d best learn how to play the slide guitar.
The slide guitar can be played on either an acoustic or an electric guitar as long as it doesn’t have nylon strings. For a slide guitar to play correctly it must be set up differently from a traditional guitar. The instrument must be strung with heavier strings (no super-slinky) and a high action. With respect to tuning there are two options; standard and open. A player who has enough guitars to dedicate one exclusively to playing slide should experiment with open tuning. Otherwise it is easiest to use standard tuning for slide playing.
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Through the years different musicians have made their slides in many different ways. The most common materials are glass and metal though some early musicians used a bone or a knife. Different materials make different sounds; it’s a matter of preference. Slides can be purchased from your local music store or they can be made at home. Copper tubing and the tops of glass medicine bottles are the most popular homemade slides. Duane Allman, considered by many to be the greatest slide guitar player ever, used a Coricidin medicine bottle. The company and medicine are now defunct but replicas are still made for guitar players.
The slide can be placed on the second, third or pinky finger. The second finger is the largest and gives you the ability to hold down all the strings with the slide. If you play with the slide on the second finger you have hold the third and pinky fingers in the air, which makes it unnatural to most guitarists. Also, it leaves only one finger to mute the strings, which proves difficult. The third finger gives you a little less fret coverage and not quite as strong sound but it also gives you two fingers to mute the strings. This is how Duane Allman played.
The last option is to put the slide on your pinky finger. This allows you to play normally with your first three fingers and consequently is the choice for those desiring to combine slide and normal playing. The pinky slide is much smaller and generally don’t cover all the strings. Eric Clapton and Muddy Waters play using this method. Slide guitar playing has been around for over a hundred years and has been used by countless celebrated musicians. It is a great technique for any aspiring guitarist to learn.
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