Slide playing

[msteurbaut]

If you had to choose 1 open tuning for slide, wich one would it be?

[captain gorgeous]

errr that depends.

what key are we in?

[petebradt]

Open G and use a capo for other keys.

[Rob Rent]

it's pretty close between G and D...on acoustic
A and E on electric...same intervals just a bit more tension on the strings..........

[WickedGTR]

E for blues and G for major mode country(ish) style. Also I like standard tuning for slide when it's single note lead stuff...It's easier to remember where all the damn notes are.

...oops- that's three, sorry.

[Rob Rent]

I do a solo gig where I might do a song in..oh let's say standard tuning and play it in E...tonight...tomorrow I might do it in G in G tuning....I might be noodling around at the end of a song in A in standard tuning and...it just somehow seems right to drift into another song or two instead of finishing one first, effectively creating a medley on the spot and now I'm playing my usual E song in A....I've played enough in the few tunings I use to be comfortable in playing in any of them....so if I say G right now.....you could get a completely different answer later today...

[KC]

I start with open E, always. But then I go in several different directions: a quick retune to open A for a while, back to E, detune one string for E minor or detune the high E string down to C sharp for a cool VI feel for the "Bottlerockets Hawaiian Boogie."

By the end of the set, there's no telling what's in tune. I rely on vibrato and beer to cover up as much as I can. One of these days I'm going to try one of those Trilogy tuning bridges & see if that works.

[Rob Rent]

...as I said I do a solo thing....I tune the guitar to itself....and it seems as the set wears one..the tuning gets lower and lower....not much of a problem doing a single act...big problem with a band....about 10 years or so ago I read an interview with Ry Cooder where he had the same thing occur when he plays alone....I've also found that different guitars like different amounts of tension...for example...I have 2 of the same model Gibson acoustic guitar...one rings the best when it's got light gauge strings and is tuned down to G or D the other sounds best when it it has 13s on it and is tuned up to concert pitch....same models...same construction, two entirely different animals....

[KokoTele]

I know 4 licks in open G and 3 in open E. Sometimes in open E I play 2 extra licks that I don't know and can never do it on purpose.

[Tele295]

E7 - EBDG#BE (low to high)

[Tim Bowen]

I guess I'm weird. I like standard, dropped D and double dropped D, and for the key of G, this funky drone thingy, from low to high: G-G-D-G-B-D. I've never gotten a heckuva lotta mileage from open E tunings, but I'm sure that's all about operator error.