DUNLOP GUITAR SLIDES
Someone tell me what is a guitar slide?
I know I may sound like a loser, but I’m learning to play the electric guitar and I was wondering what exactly a guitar slide is and if it is something that I should get. Here is a link to what I am talking about: http://www.guitarcenter.com/Dunlop-Solid-Brass-Guitar-Slide-364058-i1130398.gc
Slide guitar is played by holding a hard smooth object such as a bottleneck against the guitar strings instead of pushing the strings down to the fretboard. Slide guitar allows smooth glissandos (slides) and unorthodox intonations. It is famously used in a number of songs by The Allman Brother’s, Leo Kottke etc. One of the most familiar examples of slide guitar is Lynyrd Skynnyrd’s “Freebird”. If you are presently new to guitar I would not recommend starting on slide until you have learned conventional guitar well enough to play in public: Slide guitar has many challenges particularly requiring the player to have a good ear.
Slide Guitar Blues, Dunlop Uni-Vibe, Marshall – Chuck beckman
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Dunlop Presents The Slide Guitar Book $6.34 Slide guitar is more popular than ever in blues, rock, and country music. This book tells the slide story with bios and photos of the past and present bottleneck masters, technique lessons, and transcriptions of old and new benchmark tunes like: Dust My Broom (Elmore James) · Honey Bee (Muddy Waters) · Layla (Duane Allman) · Thing Called Love (Bonnie Raitt) · Love in Vain (Mick Taylor with th… |