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Slide guitar
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These are the brass slides I have made up for me. They are very heavy and really make good contact with the strings, which means a loud clear note. They are available for sale here.

Slide guitar

Slide guitar is played by wearing a 'slide' on one if the fingers of the fretboard hand and sliding notes up and down the strings by contacting the string with the slide. This is also known as bottleneck guitar, as the originators of this kind of playing used real bottle necks to get the sound. It is definitely my favorite form of playing guitar.

The technique is often played in open tunings, where the guitar is tuned to a chord, rather than standard E A D G B E. That way, the slide can move whole chords up and down. I play in standard or dropped D.

I have posted a Dropped D slide lesson at my other site. Click here to go there.

Slide is traditionally played on a resonator type guitar (image on the right) which has a speaker-like resonator fitted in the body to increase volume. These guitars are also known as Dobros, although Dobro is a brand name.

Slide can be played on electric guitar also.

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