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How to Play Slide Guitar in Standard/Dropped-D DVD by Kirk Lorange
If you really want to spice up your playing, slip a slide over your pinkie and add it to your musical vocabulary. There's no need to re-tune your guitar to an open tuning, just stay in standard or lower that bass string down to D. Kirk shows you how in this 70 minute DVD, talking and playing you through the basics, vibrato, muting, playing single note lines, finding all the chord flavors (they're all there!) and mixing it all into one very neat hybrid style of playing guitar. To order or to find out more, click here. |
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What's the oddest thing you've used as a slide?
Since I haven't went out and bought a slide, I've found myself using odd objects around the house for a slide just messing around. The weirdest thing I've used is a can of old spice body spray... works pretty well
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Shot glass and knife.
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A helter skelter slide, but that was a long time ago in a place far far away. 
I have used a small drinking glass, just messing around, it sounded 'different' mind you as I only have a classical guitar. Which reminds me of the guy from Africa on youtube who uses a teaspoon on his nylon string, I am going to go & try that right now. 
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A helter skelter slide, but that was a long time ago in a place far far away.
I have used a small drinking glass, just messing around, it sounded 'different' mind you as I only have a classical guitar. Which reminds me of the guy from Africa on youtube who uses a teaspoon on his nylon string, I am going to go & try that right now. |
I saw that.... there is also a parody of someone playing the song on a piano while holding a spoon in his mouth.
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Which reminds me of the guy from Africa on youtube who uses a teaspoon on his nylon string, I am going to go & try that right now. |
Well that didn't go very well at all, awkward on the neck, difficult to get the pressure in your mouth & hence on the string right.  I think I will have to buy a properly made one, along with one of those DVDs that someone around here sells, now who was that... 
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A Zippo lighter. 
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used a couple of things like a sawn off section of motorcycle handlebar thick and heavy=good, and a peice of rounded opal potch which is similar to glass
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A Hopkins fishing lure...take the hooks off first!!
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I used a pen once, also used the same pen as a capo by using a boot lace to hold it to the neck. Oh for the money to buy the real thing eh.
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I tried using a chap stick. Kind of dead sounding but effectual for illustrating a technique.
six strings bangin' on a board, (makes it sound simple)
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Zippo's are definetely cool.. 
probably the weirdest thing I 'had' to play with, was a Bic lighter.
sounded like a cat getting clobbered with a bag of rocks. 
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Personally: A pen cap.
A friend used: empty pepsi can.
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Most recent unusual object used for a temporary slide was...A pair of chopsticks tied together with a hair elastic!
Yesterday was history, tommrow is a mystery, today is a gift. I'm moving on and starting over. There are things that have been done and past. You cannot change what's done but you can change what has not been. I will fall down and I'll pick myself back up again.
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a bottle of hedrix electric vodka the small single shot , i felt like he was here lol
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How to Play Slide Guitar in Standard/Dropped-D DVD by Kirk Lorange
If you really want to spice up your playing, slip a slide over your pinkie and add it to your musical vocabulary. There's no need to re-tune your guitar to an open tuning, just stay in standard or lower that bass string down to D. Kirk shows you how in this 70 minute DVD, talking and playing you through the basics, vibrato, muting, playing single note lines, finding all the chord flavors (they're all there!) and mixing it all into one very neat hybrid style of playing guitar. To order or to find out more, click here. |
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