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Any players play slide in standard "E" tuning?


onewilyfool

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BK that was a good vid…thanks!

 

 

 

It does cover a real lot of territory!

 

 

A couple of other points for standard tuning slide:

 

 

I trained my pinky to be the slider with a lot of effort, so I can easily grab 3 note chords also....you can of course still do this if you slide with the ring finger, but it looks a lot more contorted!

 

 

Guitar action needs to be a tad high and strings thick, or tinny, fret banging sounds will occur.

 

 

I like emulating Albert King '2nd position blues box riffs' with the slide instead of fingers - more a lead guitar technique, but can be used in standard tuning slide to great effect. In E blues - frets 3 and 5 on the high strings...

 

 

That archtop with the bow in the neck (see my avatar pic to the left) is the perfect standard tuning slider!

 

 

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