Originally Posted by: hunter.kaneI have been playing for a long time and I'd like to think I'm pretty good, but when I use a slide it sounds awful, I'd just like some advice on how to use one.
I won't be the one to give advice on this subject. I'm terrible at slide.
Over the last few years, I've become a big fan of Tedeschi Trucks. Derek Trucks being a slide master. When I pick up the slide, I sound terrible and what I've noticed is; I think of slide like how I play without it. I've read that is a bad thing for slide.
Things to consider, often great slide players use alternate tunings. Also, the technique involves a different touch of both floating above the fretboard and connecting with the string. I've found that I wrestle with the absence of tactile connection with the string to the fretboard.
So these are my identified personal issues. Junk I've gotta work through.
I've also watch Derek Trucks very closely (see below) and watched how he slides. Where he stops, how he holds the slide and how he slides from one place to another. Some of it is having authority in the slide. I'm terrible, so I'm weak when I slide. Practice, practice, practice...
...and I've been pretty close up ;)
