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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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January 8th, 2008
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String Height for Slide
I am customizing an older guitar. Adding new pickups, tuning heads, bridge, and nut. What I need to know is what you would recommend for string height at 1st and 12th fret or something like that. Also my fretboard is slightly rounded and not sure how that will effect height settings.
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I asked the samething when I started and I was told that no special setup was required. Maybe just beef up your strings to 11's which will bend the neck a little if you're playing in open E. I heard that Derek Trucks action is quite low even by non slide playing standards. The neck being radiused won't effect your playing since you aren't actually fretting the strings. I would try to get a bridge and nut that are pretty flat to make it easier to play multiple strings with a clean tone.
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11s to 13s will raise the strings plenty. I have 16s on mine for slide. Thick strings, thick tones.
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WOW, 16s !!!  Is that on an electric? if so are you tuning down to open d ? I was afraid to go past 11s with a 12 and the e string.
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March 19th, 2008
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Nope. Standard tuning. I have had that on one of my guitars for the last 4 or 5 years with no problems. Kirk has probably used those gauge strings for decades. A lot of my guitars are strung with 13s for regular playing
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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. |
Click on the screenshot for
an excerpt from the DVD |
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