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Originally Posted by Kami no Hikari
does the fact that due to a slide one is limited to play only chord parts at best, mean that one can't play every song in 'slide-guitar' without having to bend some notes?? |
You can in fact play just about every chord flavor using a slide in standard tuning, but as allthumbs says, nothing stops you from playing with your fingers as well. You're not confined to just playing slide if you wear a slide ... you can use the other fingers in the normal fashion. It takes a bit of getting used to, of course, having a tube stuck on the pinkie, but 'getting used to' is what learning to extract music from a wooden box with high tension wires attached is all about.
The other important thing to always remember is that just because guitars have 6 strings doesn't mean that chords are not 6 note entities. They're not. Plain old major and minor chords are 3 note entities; the different 7th chords are 4 notes. Some jazz chords are bigger, but there again, you don't need to play all the notes of a chord to express the flavor of that chord.