Members hangwire Posted March 28, 2011 Members Share Posted March 28, 2011 Traded a pedal for a '61 harmony Stella acoustic with high action, so going to use it a's a guitar to learn some dirty dirty blues slide technique... Is there a good tuning for this style of music? Never got into this KK d of slide guitar before Thanks! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members hecticone Posted March 28, 2011 Members Share Posted March 28, 2011 Open g dgdgbd Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members who235 Posted March 28, 2011 Members Share Posted March 28, 2011 I like open E. It's easy to find your place since you already know the root notes on the 6th string, plus if you have a bass player he won't get too lost either. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members jorhay1 Posted March 28, 2011 Members Share Posted March 28, 2011 I like standard Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members claytonjohn18 Posted March 28, 2011 Members Share Posted March 28, 2011 DDDDdd Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members hangwire Posted March 28, 2011 Author Members Share Posted March 28, 2011 again... dirty dirty sloppy new orleans ole time blues slide tunings... please clarify Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members A.P. Ryder Posted March 28, 2011 Members Share Posted March 28, 2011 I really like open C: CGCGCE.Many blues players use open G or D (DADF#AD). G was popular with the Delta guys, and D was popular with the Chicago slide guys, with lots of overlap between the two, of course. To take a little pressure off the neck, you can tune to G or D and then capo the second fret to get open A or E.Open D Minor is cool, too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members CS Posted March 28, 2011 Members Share Posted March 28, 2011 Start on DADF#AD. Make up riffs using the open chords and slide on the 3rd fret. Get used to using a slide on the 5th and 7th frets. Listen to Ry Cooder. Listen to Duane. Listen to Seasick Steve. Develop your vibrato, not too much. Work out how to fret a minor chord with and without the slide. Mix and match fretting notes with the slide. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members english_bob Posted March 28, 2011 Members Share Posted March 28, 2011 DADF#AD (open D) is instant Elmore James. You can't *not* play a couple of Elmore tunes when you tune up to open D and put on a bottleneck. It's against the law. DADGAD is fun too... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members JRBain Posted March 28, 2011 Members Share Posted March 28, 2011 I'm afraid I don't know a lot about dirty slide blues. I use a slide quite a bit, but mainly to emulate a lap steel in a Gilmourish sort of way. In standard tuning. Anyway, he's used open E minor and open G. To be honest, I'd try any major or minor open tuning, as any doublestop you try will work. Develop from there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members english_bob Posted March 28, 2011 Members Share Posted March 28, 2011 C6 steel guitar tuning? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C6_tuning Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members hangwire Posted April 11, 2011 Author Members Share Posted April 11, 2011 open E seems the best fit... thanks... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members SnorkelMonkey Posted April 11, 2011 Members Share Posted April 11, 2011 All of them are great fun. My favorite on a round neck, open low G DBGDGD (high to low strings) is great for several reasons. Lots of slide blues stuff recorded on it. It doubles as a good backwoods "country sounding" open tuning when finger picked. Other tunings (including open E) have you tune up the strings from standard tuning, open low G you tune down the strings from standard tuning and also allows you can use a standard guitar set. This helps with less tension on the strings, neck, and less string breaks. The other cool part about learning on that tuning is that open high G which is DBGDBG is the tuning most commonly found on Dobro. You can use all your licks from the high four strings and transition over to Dobro easy as pie, in fact if you notice you actually have two octaves that allow you to repeat the same licks played on the first three strings over to the last three strings to mix it up. So whatever slide licks you learned on the first three strings of the low G tuning you can repeat on both octaves on the high G tuning. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members theboywho Posted April 11, 2011 Members Share Posted April 11, 2011 DADGBD is one I use a lot. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phil O'Keefe Posted April 12, 2011 Share Posted April 12, 2011 I like open G, open E and standard tuning for slide. Open D is cool too. I don't mess with DADGAD much, but I have a friend who really likes it. One nice thing about open G is that banjo chords will work with it, so if you know how to play banjo, you can transition to it fairly easily. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members juri Posted April 12, 2011 Members Share Posted April 12, 2011 Open G [video=youtube;_7VsoxT_FUY] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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