Playing slide guitar?

[V-Spot]

I've always wanted to learn how to play slide guitar, kind of like how Duane Allman and Gary Rossington did, but I can never find anything on it. It doesn't matter about the tuning it's in, and I've already got my guitar set-up for slide, but it's trying to play it that's killing me. The only slide thing I know is the Freebird intro (though probably the most overrated slide part IMHO), and even then I don't know how Gary wrote it.

Any of you guys slide players? I'd love someone to even give me the slightest clue besides 'tune to Open E and raise your action'. Any advice would be helpful!

Thanks,
Andrew.

 

[Quencho092]

Re: Playing slide guitar?

bump, im interested too.

 

[Peterku]

Re: Playing slide guitar?

http://www.bottleneckguitar.com/

 

[KirkLorange]

Re: Playing slide guitar?

Yes, I'm a slide player ... have been since the late 60's!

Peterku has already put the link to one of my sites ... thanks Peterku ... http://www.bottleneckguitar.com is also the home of the Slide Guitar Forum where there are a bunch of us sliders, happy to discuss the art at length.

I have a slide tune sitting at #1 at Soundclick right now. Check it out at http://www.soundclick.com/pro/?BandID=156391

I have always played in standard or better yet, dropped D tuning ( D A D G B E ) which I have found to be the best of both worlds. You will find some links to a few dropped D lessons.

Cheers,

Kirk

 

[hellrider77]

Re: Playing slide guitar?

try one of the begginner slide books, thats what i did just to learn some tecnique. not really any good songs but it will get you goin.

 

[Armotron]

Re: Playing slide guitar?

Yes, I'm a slide player ... have been since the late 60's!

Peterku has already put the link to one of my sites ... thanks Peterku ... http://www.bottleneckguitar.com is also the home of the Slide Guitar Forum where there are a bunch of us sliders, happy to discuss the art at length.

I have a slide tune sitting at #1 at Soundclick right now. Check it out at http://www.soundclick.com/pro/?BandID=156391

I have always played in standard or better yet, dropped D tuning ( D A D G B E ) which I have found to be the best of both worlds. You will find some links to a few dropped D lessons.

Cheers,

Kirk

Awesome, thats very helpful, Ive been wanting to learn some slide.