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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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Might play some slide for my jazz band solo
So we're playing a rockin' 12 bar blues in B flat major and I got a solo again! I have never played slide before and I'm doing it on a shred guitar in standard tuning. I'm just wondering how will I switch between slide and normal fretting. Especially in the middle of a jazz band solo.
Sorry I"m a newbie at this.
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All I know is that sliding is not easy - lots of things to learn and get right, but it's great that your band is choosing you again to solo, and encouraging you to do new things on your guitar. I hope there will be a video of the performance.
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You may want to put the slide idea on hold for a while. Remember, a lot of the tone comes from the usually thicker strings. I believe Kirk has his strat set up with a heavier string gauge since he uses that a lot for slide work. (somebody correct me if I'm wrong!)
A thinner string will work, but , to me at least, the tone is a more shrill, almost whiny tone and can be unpleasant at times.
As for fretting, you probably know, the slide itself stops directly above the fret for the note. As for switching back & forth, watch a couple of Kirk's videos on slide and you'll see him switch back & forth....but that takes lots of practice.
If it was me...If I had a few weeks before the show, I might try it with lots of extra slide practice. If it's sooner...I'd focus on getting my amp settings correct so I could hit the pedal, jump from a rhythm setting, to a bit louder lead, then back and make sure I nailed a normal lead. On the last vid or two, you played some nice stuff, Jess, make it a bit stronger and then the next time, maybe try the slide
But hey, that's just my opinion, FWIW HA! Good luck !!
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Cool. Jess. Go over some of the slide lessons on the forum. make sure you damp the strings behind the slide to control over tones. Develop a light touch. You will have to use fx to fatten up your tone if your using skinny strings with fast action.
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I could just do the sliding parts with my finger instead. I'm pretty good with fingersliding and I don'tlike to play in my jazz band using my GNX3. Plus, the teacher didn't like me using that big ol' steel box o' buttons.
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jazz bands just don't like the guitarist toys....... i run into that all the time.
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I guess I'll stick with fingersliding then! Nothing wrong with that.
In the symphony of life, nobody gets a program.
"Even through the darkest days, this fire burns always." - Killswitch Engage
"The door is locked now, but it's open if you're true." -Metallica
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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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an excerpt from the DVD |
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