Can anyone suggest some fairly easy slide guitar tunings I could use? I'm just learning to play slide, and I don't know any tunings except for open E and open G. I really don't want to dedicate a guitar to each tuning, so I'm looking for any shortcuts anyone can offer. Any tips will also be appriciated. Thanks!

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Really open E and G are good ones to use,especially E for 3 chord boogie type tunes....think Duane Allman and Statesboro Blues.
If you use many open tunings to play in the same key as the song...say G in a G tune,it starts sounding very similar no matter what tuning you're in because people tend to play the licks in the easy places where the same chords are.
I've played slide since the early 70s and found that on electric guitar,open E and standard tuning is a good basis for most keys...and it's easy to tune the guitar back and forth between the two when you get the hang of it.
For acoustic Delta type stuff,open G is a really good one and also a Dm tuning....Sonny Landreth uses that on a song called Congo Square.
The basics are the key to slide,where to play the note to be in tune and how to control the noise so it doesn't sound like somebody killing a cat.

Vestapol is an open D Major tuning for the guitar. If a guitar tuned in Vestapol is strummed without fretting any notes, it will sound a D Major chord (D A D F# A D).

Elmore James used Vestapol.

If you stick to open Emaj it quickly becomes easy to use fingers for chords in the I,IV,V sequence. Also it's simple solo on a major pentatonic.
I strongly recommend it.
Open Gmaj is the easiest to initialy grasp. Difficult to master though

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Guitar World magazine just had a dvd on slide as a thing you could buy for ten bucks. Open A,D,E,& G as well as standard, plus scales and styles of great slide players. Check the magazine rack at your local bookstore, they might still be out, if not you might be able to get it offf their website. Andy Aledort is the instructor in the dvd.

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