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Location: 6 String Ranch | Russ, If Matt has some of the Nunwell slides at NAMM they will be in his pockets. If you make the deal ahead of time I'm sure he can do something for you. Nunwell doesn't show at NAMM, they probably don't even know about NAMM. They are a husband and wife team who have a glass blowing show in their back yard and make all kinds of things, the smallest of which are these slides. They are true artists and what they can do with glass is amazing!
Hizzz, They can be tight or loose, your choice. I started with a tighe one and still use it. On the pinky, ikt fits over the first knuckle and stopps at the second. I find that as I play more slide and get more comfortable with it the looser ones work just as well. What is important is the designs in these slides, each one is a work of art. I like the ones with the little candy cane looking things and the ones with red and yellow bubbles. They are hand signed and run $40.00 |
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Location: SoCal | can order them through Matt's web site.
course, if he reads this, he'll probably email you. |
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Location: Scotland | Ok, some slide pointers, once you have a guitar, a tuning & a slide you're comfortable with.....
Lose the flatpick, really good slide guitar requires fingerstyle (Lowell George being the exception)
Make sure you damp behind the slide (rest your spare fingers lightly on the strings behind the slide to kill the resonance between the slide and the nut)
Use only as much slide as you need to cover the strings you're playin' on
Aim for the centre of the fret with the slide, not behind like when you're fretting.
Work on your vibrato. Then work on your vibrato some more. Go on a Bhuddist Vibrato retreat for 10 years, then come home and continue to work on your vibrato.
Learn to play a major scale & a minor scale on one string. How many ways can you slide around those 8 notes? Try Ry Cooder for classic & peerless single-string slide. John Hiatt's "Lipstick Sunset" has one of Cooder's finest slide guitar solos ever, mostly played on one string at a time
Diads, (double stops or 2-notes at a time) can imply lots of harmonies, so it's worth investing some time on chord theory
The really subtle stuff is in the right hand. Right hand muting is the key to really good clean slide guitar. |
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Location: puerto vallarta, mexico | Originally posted by Paul Templeman:
Ok, some slide pointers, once you have a guitar, a tuning & a slide you're comfortable with.....
Lose the flatpick, really good slide guitar requires fingerstyle (Lowell George being the exception)
Make sure you damp behind the slide (rest your spare fingers lightly on the strings behind the slide to kill the resonance between the slide and the nut)
Use only as much slide as you need to cover the strings you're playin' on
Aim for the centre of the fret with the slide, not behind like when you're fretting.
Work on your vibrato. Then work on your vibrato some more. Go on a Bhuddist Vibrato retreat for 10 years, then come home and continue to work on your vibrato.
Learn to play a major scale & a minor scale on one string. How many ways can you slide around those 8 notes? Try Ry Cooder for classic & peerless single-string slide. John Hiatt's "Lipstick Sunset" has one of Cooder's finest slide guitar solos ever, mostly played on one string at a time
Diads, (double stops or 2-notes at a time) can imply lots of harmonies, so it's worth investing some time on chord theory
The really subtle stuff is in the right hand. Right hand muting is the key to really good clean slide guitar.
i didn't realize how basic my slide must be till i read this paul. i told you all you need to know was a few I IV V progressions to get work here. i have the guitar and if i can get a slide from matt i will take the rest of the list to the bhuddist vibrato camp to practice after vibrating classes. (co ed?) i'll let you know if it all helps in 2014.
do they have agave in bhudda land? i might pack some copper tubing--- |
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Location: Bromsgrove, Worcestershire. U.K. | Hi all,
We may be able to help you in your search for a custom slide, please take some time out to browse our website over here in the U.K. http://www.diamondbottlenecks.com & take a peek at our range of glassware - it'd be great to hear from you sliders!
Many thanks,
Ian. |
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Location: Scotland | I sell Ian's slides & tonebars over here, they're highly recommended.
www.reallyusefulmusicco.co.uk |
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Location: NJ | WebPage is lookin' good there, Master Templeman!
Can't wait'll it's up & running (f&^% eBay!).
I'm considering getting a pair of tablas.
We'll have to talk after the Holidays . . . . |
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Location: SoCal | A f%$#%ing Taylor on the logo page????? |
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Location: Scotland | actually no, it's a Chinese rip-off. Retails at around 1/4 of a Taylor 300 series, plays and sounds about as good. Comes with Shadow electronics. We sell tons of them.
Cliff, Tabla are incredibly difficult to play & even more difficult to tune. Take a look at these, they sound kinda similar to the smaller of the Tabla pair and play just like regular bongos
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=47088&item=3770154781&tc=photo
These are exclusive to us, you won't find 'em anywhere else. |
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Location: NJ | ". . Cliff, Tabla are incredibly difficult to play & even more difficult to tune . ."
I know Daddy!, but I still WANT one!!! :p
Actually, the wood bongos look kinda cool too, and appear to have the potential of being equally annoying . . . |
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Location: Victoria BC | For what it is worth i use the end of a beer bottle for Sustain and a chunk of hollow brass for tone.Both home made.
I am too lazy to re tune to anything but drop D so I do not play alot of slide...to much right hand work in these 2 keys.
Love the sound of those who do re-tune especially G finger pickers/slide..WOW!!!
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