This lesson is going to be on bottleneck slide. We are playing in standard tuning, although you can play slide in open tuning. You know Open D, Open E, Open G, which produce magnificent results.
Today, we are going to be playing in standard tuning and I am using a glass slide on my middle finger. Of course, you can wear a slide on your ring finger, a smaller one, on your pinky, but I play on my middle finger in parts that I can drag and mute my index finger behind, and also so that I can be free to create other chords and voicing. So that's kind of an overview.
One more thing I will say about the glass slide, that it does produce a slightly more warm tone than perhaps a chrome or a brass slide would and you will notice with my right hand that I am not using a pick, so I am going to play these lines with my fingers and my thumb and part of what we are doing here is droning the base lines with the thumb and then muting unwanted strings with the other fingers.
We are going to really work a one, four, five progression in the key of A and I am going to work out of this basic A chord shape on strings two, three and four up at the fourteenth fret and you might remember with slide, when you want to play a note, a fret note of course you play in the middle of the fret. With the slide you actually line up right on top of the fret wire. So if I want this line on the second string from 13 to 14, I actually had to set up right on top of the fret.
First fret that starts again with the fifteenth fret on the first fret and then a pull-off from the seventeenth, from the fifteenth fret from the second string. You can then play two beats of F major this time and two beats of C in that second major.
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