Slide in standard tuning

[jono1uk]

Anyone play slide in Standard tuning ?
On the resos it always in open G or D ...but i usually go standard on an LP or Strat ..i find it really tests the brain trying to work out 
where the slide needs to go to avoid bum notes.

[blueshome]

Often, especially electric but also on Style O.
Straightforward enough to figure out, start around the Long A shape and most of it’s there. Add in playing around a D shape and you’ve got Muddy and Nighthawk covered, what more do you need?

[jono1uk]

Thanks ..and my reason for trying is this;

[Michael Messer]

The slide and fingerstyle solo that Mick Taylor is playing is lovely. The slide part can be played note for note in standard or E tuning. Mick is playing single notes in what sounds to me like a melodic Jesse Ed Davis / Duane Allman / Robert Nighthawk-ish Southern rock / Chicago blues vibe, and it sounds beautiful over that Gram Parsons influenced chord progression. Very cool indeed! I am not in any way putting it down, just being a little academic for you about what is going on.

Jono, the only way, if you want to learn that solo, is to sit with the video and work it out phrase by phrase. It will be really good ear training and very rewarding. If you do a phrase or two each day, in no time you will have it down.

Sometimes it takes me days, weeks, months and even years, to decode what a musician is playing on a recording. At least with this you can watch it too. Mick Taylor is the best person to teach you this one.

Shine On
Michael

[Deleted]

If (e.g.) playing in standard E, one tip is to use a 4 fret range on the 4th string (5-9th) and a 4 fret range on the 3rd string (12-16th).
TT

[jimijames]

Earl Hooker, Robert Knighthawk are the two that stand out for slide in standard tuning. It’s tricky but you have to try to take a less is more approach and make the most of fewer notes. Cause your in standard you can use all the chords and licks you normally would so actually gives you a lot of different options. generally I use a shorter slide ala Fred McDowell on the ring finger to give me the 1st/2nd& 3rd to fret the chords.
Agree too Mick Taylor is an absolute master too, loads of great slide on exile in standard
Jimi

[jimijames]

I don’t know this chap but he’s hitting on the right line and he’s got the vibe going. It’s classic hooker/knighthawk licks ala Anna lee. Wring out maximum feeling on the end lines with the vibrato.
Hope it helps or inspires someone and good on the chap who’s playing!

[creolian]

Jun 19, 2018 16:30:37 GMT jono1uk said:

Anyone play slide in Standard tuning ?
On the resos it always in open G or D ...but i usually go standard on an LP or Strat ..i find it really tests the brain trying to work out 
where the slide needs to go to avoid bum notes.

A while back Deuce recommended learning pentatonic scales playing slide.  That has helped my technique enormously. 

[creolian]

Jun 19, 2018 16:30:37 GMT jono1uk said:

Anyone play slide in Standard tuning ?
On the resos it always in open G or D ...but i usually go standard on an LP or Strat ..i find it really tests the brain trying to work out 
where the slide needs to go to avoid bum notes.

double bump...ooops !

[twang1]

I sometimes play in standard tuning. I started tryin' to play the usual way but with a slide on my finger. So I could insert here and there some slidin' notes. Regarding chords I tend to play the ones that have at least two notes on the same fret.
But the trick, expecially in standard, is....dump, dump, dump!
Frank

[biscuit]

There is a good DVD by Kirk Lorange about slide in standard and dropped D tunings.

www.planetalkguitar.com/bottleneck/

[ken1953clark]

For single notes in standard decide what string you want to play, place your RH thumb on the string above (spatially) and one of your unused RH fingers on the one below and pick chosen string with index and move slide for clean notes. Classical players use a similar technique. An alternative, thumb on 5th, unused on 1st and hit strings 2-4, it a G open, A 1st feet etc etc. Or do what I do tune open :-)

[joephoto]

I like to play Tush in standard tuning.  I actually found a tab online that tells you to tune the low E to D and they never use that string. A guitar magazine I have shows it in some other tuning.  At the last minute I went to an open mike blues jam and for the second time in my life played in front of people. The band was on break and I thought I'd rather try it alone. I put my Danoblaster Innuendo with the built in effects into my Roland Micro Cube amp. I played Wild Night (no singing) then remembered to set up the camera before trying Tush (no singing).  Tons of mistakes but I wasn't as nervous as I thought I'd be.  

[Deleted]

Here's a fairly well known slide tune in standard. I learned it note for note about 6 years back, and it was a good learning curve.

TT

[resotonic]

Does Brian Jones (50 years gone this week - long live Brian!) play 'No Expectations' in standard? I usually play it in open 'G' but sometimes I think it could be done better. Without two guitars...