Im giving slide tuning a go in open G tuning. ive been messing with it for hours now but i totally suck!

Most of the youtube lessons are of little help or benifit. anyone got any tips that helped them learn slide?

Two small tips, light touch with the slide and fret right on top of the fret. Takes a lot of time to get the right feel. Have fun with it.............. Mike

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Guitar world magazine just had a slide dvd on the magazine rack . you might be able to find it still. A bunch of tunings and techniques

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First tip
Put the slide down for a while and just get used to the open tuning. Learn where all the notes are and what sounds good with your fingers first. Then you can make it sound killer with the slide.

Worked for me mate.

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Thanks all. Nikninja, your tip in particular has been helpful. been playing for about 30 mins without the slide, figuring out where the dominant 7ths ,b3rds are and some movable shapes and i have a basic blues boogie now down in open G. thanks a mil! bringing the slide in will take time though. listening to johnny winters "Dallas", and its awesome but will take me a while.

Open G is what worked for me. I did finally put it aside because it was taking away from my regular tuning practice time.

Left hand vibrato is very important when playing slide. Even a note held in exactly the right place can sound wrong without vibrato. An example of this is the slide work on Freebird. No vibtrato on that song and to my ears it sounds horrible and "off".

Here is Lowell George talking about slide. I figure him and ry Cooder as two of the best:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n0NvDUta ... re=related

Eric Sardinas is my favorite slide player......
Watch any of his you tube stuff and you will learn something guaranteed
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EBpa2CADNJA

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Ah mate, you could be leaping before you look with Johnny Winters. A very underrated player.
Try some simple Elmore James, or My favourite Jeremy Spencer stuff. Very easy to control stuff. Thats really what slide is all about, control. Anyone can be wild on slide. The greats all excersized tremendous control.

Elmore James
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SsgZ5IDQu80&feature=related

Jeremy Spencer
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H1jNhuxccZo&feature=related

Both use very small often repeated phrases, and dont do much else. Both those guys played in open Emaj, but the principle is the same. You can play Shake your moneymaker in open G it works fine.

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