Get the Delta Blues Sound with these Slide Tricks
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Playing with power doesn’t mean losing control. It doesn’t mean pummeling the strings either. You can make a powerful statement with your slide by mastering a few techniques like the ones covered in this lesson.
Good luck and…
Play On!
John
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I appreciate the way you lay out the purpose of certain scale degrees in your playing. It makes it easy to understand and incorporate into my own stuff. Cheers
Hey John, I was just watching a video of Mississippi Fred McDowell, and there were close ups of his left hand. He was wearing a short (around 3cm – 1.25" in American) glass slide, pushed well down on his ring finger.
He used it for little 'lead' breaks up on the 12th fret, like in your vid, but it allowed the exposed fingertip to fret notes normally, so he had all four fingers to play chords with. He didn't use the slide parallel to the strings either – he had it angled so just the tip of the slide was touching the strings.
I dug a slide like that out, and tried it – it is feasible! But since I've only just started really concentrating on slide, it may be best to stay conventional until I'm more confident. It works with certain tunes though, and it is a very flexible system.
That’s definitely not easy. As a member on the site I have a question? I have a resonator… and slide. Could I from scratch do this?
Great lesson John. What size is hat guitar?
What gauge strings?
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Could you make a playlist of all your open G lessons?
another great lesson! what brand thumb pick is that?
I see you are playing with some space between your fretting hand and edge of the neck. I'm thinking the heavy "V" in the neck of that Gretsch is useful to support the thumb so you can get the end of the slide closer to the high strings and off the middle strings. At first I didn't find the "V" comfortable but now I think maybe slide is where it has its best use. Beside the great tone, is that why you chose that guitar for these tunes?
Thank you, i have the Bobtail and the Honeydipper and i am a complete Newbie. I quickly realized that sliding looks easy, but there is actually much more to it than that. I asked Charlie Parr how he plays his resonators :Charlie say: I usually don’t use an amp with the tricone, I prefer a DI/pre-amp instead (made by tech 21, it has a parametric EQ and is called ’Sans Amp’). If I’m playing the Mavis then I use a Fender Deluxe for an amp. Both guitars have custom pickups wound by Ted Vig from St. Paul Minnesota. I use flat-wound nickel strings, usually starting with 11g on the high end. Other than the EQ on the pedal or amp, I don’t use any other pedals. If you can’t get a Mule over there, you might like National’s RAW series, which are also fantastic guitars.
Hans Theessink (Blues Performer) information:I have quite an arsenal of resonator guitars. Some Nationals Style 0 and tricone, Triolian and Duolian. Also a Selmer from France.
I also have some Dobros (also a 12-string with built in pickups), a Gretsch Sho-Bro (wood) and some other wooden resonator guitars (Regal) and a hand built guitar by Gottfried Gfrerer.
The National Style 0 and National tricone are used the most.
At home I play them acoustically and live over a Fender Princeton Reverb. No pedals or effects.
The guitars have Barcus Berry pickups (very flat and specially designed for dobros – unfortunately they are no longer manufactured).
I use Thomastik Infeld Spectrum Bronze 13 gauge strings. 13/17/26/36/45/57
Nice! I just got a little resonator a Recording King Dirty 30 that was on sale. Now need to get a slide!
Loving the slide lessons
John,fabulous stuff once again,
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