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Originally Posted by Kami no Hikari
aah, i thought as much 
did a great job on it sounds very "new-year'ish" hehe 
But there's one thing i still don't understand, the concept of slide-guitar (sry, don't know how to better put it) but is that brasspipe something like a barré-help? why is it neccessarily put on the pinky? and how do you grab chrods with that thing on, is one supposed to play chords with a slide? apologize if the questions sound a bit unsmart but i haven't quite got a straight mental picture of it yet |
It is not really like a bar since you can only play notes behind it with your finger with it on your pinky.Some people play it on their 3rd finger and very few play it on their index finger.You use the fingers behind the slide to damp unwanted string noise though in Kirks' style ,the right hand does the bulk of the damping.
Your pretty much limited to playing bits of chords that line up across the fretboard for chord parts. I am talking about playing in standard and dropped D. Open tunings are easier to play whole chords since all six strings are tuned to a chord like A,D etc.,but that kind of restricts your freedom IMO so it is too easy to just play generic slide riffs.
An example of a part chord in standard would be an Am7 chord. Place your index finger across the 5th fret. The intervals from top string to low are 1,5.b3,b7. A four string chord.You can see you need to be able to find those "line em ups" all over the fretboard to play well though you can do single note runs. That is one of the things
Plane Talk teaches you, how to find what you need on the fretboard.