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WahooSlide Approved
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im just starting to learn slide guitar and my teacher has told me to find some songs with the frets, letters or numbers w/e you use. ive looked up a horse with no name http://www.guitarcamera.com/video.asp?video=97 but i cant understand that, i was wondering if anyone knew were i could find begginer songs with the frets or knows any songs and could give me the frets my teacher write it like wild thing - 00 - 55 - 77 - repeat, and i can understand that or in the letters, ee - aa - bb Last edited on Wed Jan 23rd, 2008 05:39 am by WahooSlide |
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Will Approved 
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WahooSlide wrote: im just starting to learn slide guitar and my teacher has told me to find some songs with the frets, letters or numbers w/e you use. ive looked up a horse with no name The web video is for regular guitar, not slide guitar. Some of the chords played for "A Horse With No Name" (such as D6) are not easy to play using a slide guitar. To play easy slide guitar, the tuning should be changed from EADGBE to an open tuning, so that a major chord is played when all the strings are strummed, such as open-G, which is DGDGBD. To get open-G tuning, lower the tuning on the 6th (bass) string from E to D. Lower the 5th string from A to G. Lower the high-E string to D. Then, you can play by using the slide tube on your left hand to "fret" across the strings to get major chords. Try this web site: http://www.slidingzone.de/
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reggie miles Approved 
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Wahoo slide, I think the most difficult thing about playing slide might be what Will was hinting at in his reply to you. The challenge becomes finding material to play that works well using your chosen slide technique and tuning. Unless you already have a specific slide artist or artists that you are wanting to emulate, taking songs that were not originally written or arranged as solo slide guitar pieces and working them up as such may become difficult. Perhaps first you should decide who plays the type of slide guitar that you would like to play like. Is it a master old time acoustic blues player like Robert Johnson? If so, then you've got a fairly good source of material to listen to in order to begin to understand his approach. Or do you enjoy the style of more contemporary artists that play rock&roll, blues/rock, electric style stuff. Again, there is a great deal of material by these modern artists that is readily available to gain inspiration from via careful study. While there are many simple three chord songs like "Wild Thing" that can be worked up with a basic chordal slide technique, as with most everything musical, the devil is in the details. All of the more complex movements (riffs) that make your personal style of playing or any style of playing interesting to you and others, beyond those basic chords, should also be on your agenda for assimilation. Ask your teacher for help discovering simple three chord songs that can be converted easily to your particular slide approach that you'd like to learn. Then don't forget to ask about all those extra added tidbits that will make your playing sound so much richer. If you are going to use the open tuning suggested by Will to play slide, know that it is a very popular approach that has been used by many players of the past and is still widely used today. There is another very similar tuning that can be used, open E tuning. Your string tuning should look like this, Low string EAEG#BE High string. This approach to open tuned slide playing is the one that I've used for the last 30+ years and it continues to fascinate. There are many folk type songs that can be played using three chords and that will sound good with a minimalist open tuned slide approach applied to the melodies, "This Little Light Of Mine", "Amazing Grace", "Will The Circle Be Unbroken", etc. Gospel songs are especially good candidates as many were designed to have simple melodies that could be easily learned. If you're a church goin' sort, perhaps you could inquire of any of these being used in your services or meetings. Your teacher probably knows a bushel of them. The concept of any appraoch to learning a technique of playing is to start simply and slowly and then progress to the more complex. That's what makes these very familiar melodies such good tools to use. Once learned, you'd be surprised at how often these basic structures are used in other songs. The very best to you on your first steps into this very rich realm of slide guitar playing techniques. Reggie Miles
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