Sunday, December 16, 2007

Beginner’s Guide To Guitar Slides

If you want more color and texture to your playing, then investing into a guitar slide is a great option! A guitar slide will help you get that down home gritty dirty sound evoking country and blues all at once. Slides will enable you to get whines and screams. You are not bound by the rigid rules of fretting 12 pitches an octave.

Sliding simply refers to pressing a cylinder tool across the strings from one fret to the other creating a flowing continuity with the notes. Using a guitar slide allows the player to change the pitch by sliding up and down the neck.

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