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I just realized that when I jam with slide, I don't finger at all. How about some rule of thumb about switching between the two. Are there guidelines or just personal taste. What do you do. I use both when I use tab calling for it but, it is not natural for me. I use my pinky a lot in fingering so my mindset turns off the fingers as soon as it is covered with a slide. I am going to play finger style with the slide on til I break that mindset. thanks
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[manwithaplan]

I have the same problem but I think it is all prefrence, I never tried to get past it and I alays thoguht it was part of the way I play.

[Frankenstrat2]

Hmm
I think in order to be really effective as a slide guitarist you should be pretty fluid moving back and forth from fretted notes to slide, even fretting behind the slide.
I think if you have the slide on your pinky it is easiest, giving you three other fingers plus the thumb to work with.
Maybe the best way to start is with a simple fretted rhythm pattern, like a basic blues shuffle with bouncing bass notes and then adding slide accents
Kirks slide videos have plenty of good examples of combinations of fretted and sliding notes.
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[allthumbs]

thanks for that frankenstrat2. I can switch back and forth though it cuts my speed down by a third. I figure playing double stops with the slide and chord fragments will probably take care of the rhythm parts. it is switching during lead lines that I am unsure of. I think maybe I am playing the slide too clean. I tend to just fret notes with it when I switch between fingers and slide which makes it sound dull. I think I will have to spend a lot of time watching Kirks' vids to see when he is choosing to slide or fret and why. It's no good me just learning riffs.,whith my dyslexia , I forget them almost as fast as I learn them which is why I primarily jam over backtracks and make up my own on the fly.

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