How to Hold the Slide Dampen Strings and Volume Knob Fade-Ins

Hey everybody! Neal here from the Guitar Tricks Channel at guitartricks.com, we’ve got your lesson of the week and your tip of the week. Tip of the week is on helping your guitar if you have troubled tuning it and you get that a little popping sound where you’re almost tuned there and then the string just kind of pops and doesn’t go into tune. Using a pencil, the lead has graphite in it. So, if you rub some of that graphite underneath the string right here on this while piece which is called the knot. And then pop your string back in, that will help it flow a little better when you tuning your guitar, so it help keeping into.
Onto our lesson of the week, taken from Andy Gabrys’ Lesson on Slide Guitar, this guy is awesome, he put chills down when I heard him play. I’m going to go over some slide basic with you, I don’t play slide very often so hopefully we kind to be on the same page and I will give you the basics to get started. The tuning kind of slide that you’re generally used with the glass slide it on the brass slide. I prefer this one thus heavy and it kind a rest itself on the string. I think the tone to me is a little bit thicker too which I like. So, when you put the slide on your hand, the ring finger is a good place for it to be because these two fingers some kind of drag behind it and mute the strings, cuts down on your background noise which I picked up from Andy’s lesson.
When you place the slide on your string is do it very lightly, you don’t to push down or just going to sound funky. So, face the slide very lightly on the string, strike the string and then, you can move the slide around like that. The position of the slide is very important. You want to be over the fret on top of the fret. Normally, when you would finger a note on the guitar, you will push down between the frets, strike the string and in this case you will notice when your finger is press down at the string, it’s going between the bridge right to that fret. So, if you’re not pushing down on the string and you’ve got a slide just running on top of the string, then you go want to put slide right over that fret because it’s the same place the note is going to be in the fret board. And you made a good point, that the tune of the slide is kind a sound like a human voice which you can really hear.
Here is a cool little trick in use of the volume control. If you start with the volume off, put your slide down on the guitars. Strike the strings, bring up the volume slowly and move your slide, you get that cool sliding kind of sound. Grateful effect! See you right here next week on the Guitar Tricks Channel. Have a great week everybody!


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