Hey I've been contemplating picking up playing slide, but don't really know what guitar would be a good fit for me to do so (what with the raised action and irregular tuning). Just wonderin what gear you guys that do play slide use.
Hey I've been contemplating picking up playing slide, but don't really know what guitar would be a good fit for me to do so (what with the raised action and irregular tuning). Just wonderin what gear you guys that do play slide use.
I play mainly on an Esquire Fender Telecaster (MIJ) with the acution slighty higher and level flat I use 10-52 Fender strings and a glass bottleneck. I mainly play in Open G and Open D.Originally Posted by Mike90
If you want to use lower tuning lie Open C or C6 it's better to have bigger strings imho
Guitars:
1978 Fender Telecaster Thinline Custom USA, New Nash TL-72 Thinline Telecaster, 1965 Harmony Meteor, H71, 1986 Fender Telecaster Esquire MIJ, New Martin J-41 Special, 1933 National Duolian, 1941, New Eastwood Mandocaster 12 strings
Amps:
Tweed Vibrolux Custom Denis Manlay, 1976 Fender Deluxe Reverb Silverface
I attended an Ovation Gathering in NJ recently, Matt King gave an excellent clinic. One of the things he showed us was how fast we can convert a regular guitar to a slide, by using a nut extender.
Detune,
Slip the nut extender under the straings and over the existing nut
Retune
Maybe 3 minutes total.
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Guitars:
Gibson: '08 Longhorn DC HS
Martin: '09 OM-1
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Fender: '91 Stratocaster Plus; '69 Mustang Competition; '08 Squier Telecaster CV50
Other: '77 Bradley Les Paul Custom; '03 Michael Kelly Patriot Q
Bass: '08 Dean EABC
Effects:
MXR Dyna Comp; Dunlop Crybaby; DOD TR3R; Ibanez MT10; Rockman Soloist
Amps:
Genz Benz Shenandoah Jr.; Peavey Studio Pro 110; Tascam MP-GT1
I've always sucked at slide on a 'regular' guitar, probably cuz I haven't been patient enuff to devleop the right left hand touch. I picked up a nut extender that auriemma mentions, but it's too wide at 1 7/8" (47mm), since all my electrics and all but 2 acoustic 6's are all around 1 5/8".
It's some kind of 'pig metal', too.
Instead, I keep plugging away tryin' to play on a lap steel and dobro, with their more 'forgiving' action.
In the never-ending quest for better excuses, though, my local store is ordering one of these for me the next time he places a Peavey order. He'd gotten one in a few months back, but I was too broke (not that I'm not now, but ...) At about $200, not much to lose giving it a whirl...I like that it can be strapped on to play 'lap style' or 'conventional':
Peavey Power Slide
On the page showing the white model, there's a demo video.
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I pretty much play with a glass medium wall dunlop slide on my strat. I like to use open E or standard but I'm not much of a slide player either way.
I noodle also,but I have discovered if my wife has her friends over and I want them to leave,I just turn my amph up alittle and play some slide,works every time.Sumi
Guitars,Warmoth Tele,90's Fender Strat Plus/Fender CV 50's Tele/Parker p-36/Fretlight/Custom Strat(Fender body/warmoth Clapton neck,tonerider pups)Larrivee L03 mahogany acoustic
Amphs/66 Super Reverb/60's Bandmaster head and 2/12 cab/Blues jr//epi valve jr/supro super/ ZT lunchbox/Mahaffay Little Laneilei 3350/Pignose g40v
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Depends on what kind of tone you're looking for, huge and beefy, stringy and penetrating, something in-between. Literally anything will work for slide, and you don't need real high action or huge strings. I like a slightly high action on acoustics, as I like to be able to hit the strings pretty hard when I want to and not have it fret-out. I set up all my slide stuff the same way, as I like to be able to fret at-will. I have two electrics I can't get low without rattles, so I just leave them up a little and put 12s or 13s on them. Could even do it with lighter strings, though some use a fairly light set and just put on a thicker high-E string. I play in a D tuning and try fooling with G sometimes, though I'm never comfortable with it. I've played slide on anything from Teles to Strats (Sonny Landreth, Bonnie Raitt) to LPs (Warren Haynes). Some people like SGs for slide, too (Derek Trucks). Dave Hole (the Aussie) uses a 335, but most use solidbodies, and practically any pickups will do something great. The incredible Ry Cooder uses a Strat with some old lap steel pickup at the bridge and a Teisco pickup in the neck. I've heard compression is good, and drive is great.
Originally Posted by bek
Pup is from a Supro lappy which I have 2 of (whole lapsteels not just pups)
As for slide ,I use glass.and guitar(currently a sg with WCR Fillmores):
Last edited by mrmudcat; August 11th, 2009 at 07:17 AM.
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'Lectric slide, huh? Washburn semi-hollowbody HB-32DM with humbuckers.
Action high enough so that I can slide without buzzing but low enough so that I can fret. Standard tuning....strings 2-4 gives you your major chords...strings 1-3 gives you minor chords.
As to slides......I use bronze (AcoustaGlide), glass (custom made by forumite Yerdugliness) and/or lead crystal (Diamond Bottlenecks). My bronze and glass are right around 1.5 inches; my lead crystal slides are around 1.8 inches in length (one has a wall thickness of 3mm; the other has a wall thickness of 7mm).
If I want to do an Open tuning....I use Open E, Low Open G or High Open G (Dobro tuning) on a lap steel.
HTH
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