General Music Chat

Talbot, if you practice with the low action you'll get it. I play a Strat with low action and I can play the sh!t out of the slide on it in standard tuning! If I can do it anyone can! The action on my Strat is as it was when I purchased it in 97.

Talbot, if you practice with the low action you'll get it. I play a Strat with low action and I can play the sh!t out of the slide on it in standard tuning! If I can do it anyone can! The action on my Strat is as it was when I purchased it in 97.

My Acoustic has low action (If you mean that the strings are closer to the fret board) ... In my attempt to learn some Robert Johnson... the Ring finger seems the best for the slide...

I've got a glass slide and an e-Bow but rarely use them. I only use Fender Heavy picks.

My favorites alternative pickers:

Stuart Adamson using the e-Bow

Jimmy Page using a violin bow

Jimi Hendrix using his teeth

Richie Blackmore using a large metal bracelet on his right wrist for string scrapes

Jeff Beck using nothing but his fingers (and an occasional slide)

I have the standard glass slide, but I've also found that it is easier to have a compound slide configuration , fretting with the other remaining fingers if I use a cap from my Martin's guitar polish spray bottle. It basically only covers a little more than the first joint on my little finger and allows my other fingers to bend for fretwork. Also allowing for selective silencing. In the eighties, I used to have a half length brass ring type slide. Don't know if I still have it, Don't care. Brass is soft, easy on the strings, but does wear and will create tiny metal particles, not user friendly. Fender bottle caps work nicely also. One is longer than the other. I don't know which is which. neither are on the bottle, but in my pick cache.