useful bottleneck trick -- overpinky fretting

[pogo97]

I don't know anybody else that does this, so here it is. The demo's a bit rough because I've been using a not-bottleneck slide the past year, but I think it's clear enough.

 

In short, you use the bottleneck on your pinky and *reach over* it to fret higher up the neck.

[Mikeo]

 

I'm a pinky slide player, and I may try that later. Then again I have a hard enough time playing slide.

[Freeman Keller]

I'm a pinkie slide player and I would find that almost impossible to do within a song. First, I use the fingers behind the slide to dampen slide noise and as sort of a gauge of how much pressure I'm applying with the slide. Second, I almost never play slide in standard tuning except maybe noodling around on an electric. Third, my hand just doesn't bend that way.

 

I would love to see a vid of you actually using that in a song however

[pogo97]

[video=youtube;lnKmIEM0y-0]

first song.