Bottleneck blues

Antisocialiser

Hey just bought a heavy wall 4.5mm pyrex glass slide and was wondering could anyone suggest any tablature or musicians to check out to help me learn with it? I play electric and acoustic by the way.
Thanks in advance

bonzai bob

Any blues guitarist should have a nice bit of slide music somewhere, check out Running On Faith by Eric Clapton, it's on the Unplugged album.. Great song!

Also check out Ry Cooder, ''Available Space'' isn't bad.

PersonalJesus

Muddy Waters
Robert Johnson

Doctor J

There's a band called Big Blues playing the Mezz bar tonight if you're in Dublin. Their lead guitarist uses slide a fair bit.

Antisocialiser

Thanks but im in antrim. Btw is all slide in an open tuning? And also is there any music other than blue that use it any1 can think of? (i think i saw kirk hammet playin with one once)

bonzai bob

yeah he plays one on S&M for about 20 seconds. You can use it in any music and it doesn't have to be in open tuning, the one it suggested(running on faith) is in standard tuning.

Doctor J

And Jimmy Page is a rather nifty slide player too, chech out the Led Zep DVD for In My Time Of Dying. Tasty

Keyzer

The Allman brothers....
Duane Allman played with Eric Clapton on the layla album thus inspiring Clapton to learn slide...

PersonalJesus

And Jimmy Page is a rather nifty slide player too, chech out the Led Zep DVD for In My Time Of Dying. Tasty

hang on didnt i say Muddy Waters.


slide can be used in any tuning and in any kinda music. I play slide stuff pretty regulary and some lap steel duites on alt-country stuff. You can use it with reverb and delay to get really atmospheric sounds as a backgorund to whatever else is going on. Then you can turn on distortion and have dirty walls of noise for a lead section. Really expreimenting is the order of the day.

Saying that i havent really heard much metal that uses it, as there is often all that legato and glissando in it through tapping and stuff. I would make some country suggestions but if ure a metaller, you may well hate them. Anyways bear in mind metal is blues with the gain turned up!

bonzai bob

also ''Bad Obsession'' by GNR, not exactly mind blowing but he uses a slide:)

DamienH

Robert Johnson is your only man

jinxed

joe perry uses one sometimes, and johnny winter

McMalley

"Mama Nature Said" by Thin Lizzy is a great demonstration of how to play with a slide,Eric Bell at his best.

0utshined

White Stripes - Seven Nation Army
Red Hot Chilli Peppers - Scar Tissue solos
Lynnrd Skynrd - Freebird intro

daram

Bonnie Raitt is a fantastic slide player. For a girl that is.

redfender_man

Don't forget George Harrison one of tne finest slide players on record.

juno75

90% of delta blues is in open G

Apart from lead lines its hard to play effectivly in standard tuning , particularly alone. When you are open tuned you effectivaly play rythem and lead.

Open G is most common (imo most satisfying)
Standard tuning with G tuned to G# is great for playing in E
DADGAD is also good for slide, more celtic feel than blues though.
Regular D tuning is good to.

I started slide a few months ago, initial learning curve but its starting to flow now. Its so goddam expressive you have to concentrate to not get carried away. My guitar is tuned to open G mostly.

It has givin me an excuse to buy another guitar now and set my current one up for slide - Very high Action, Set of .12's and a P90 in the neck.

Im really looking forward to doing some recording with the techniques described above. Intend to be a pale imitation of Ry Cooder