Anyone play with a slide?

[Eric Cioe]

Anyone? What sort of material do you prefer? I dinked around on my 7 string a long time ago with a metal one, and dug it up and started playing fretless with it yesterday. Fun stuff - I can pretend I'm Duan Allman!

[mothmonsterman]

i often use the side of a beer bottle, when the band gets too drunk to be effective.

[MikeyFingers]

On a bass, a slide is hard as hell to use effectively (for me anyway). I've messed around with it on a guitar and had a lot of fun with it. I especially like laying the guitar on my lap (strings facing up) and playing it like that, I'm suprisingly good playing that way when I use a Bic lighter as a slide....what's that style called again?

[doormatt]

yea, but not very well. Anyone change the tuning on their bass and do chords?

[JoshB]

I use a slide for a few intros and solos along with a wah or a phaser pedal. I've tried a few diff. slides and finally settled on a nice big brass one. It sounds great and produces some nice harmonics as well. The other slides I used (mostly glass) just didn't produce much for me in terms of tone and feel.

[Passinwind]

Originally Posted by Eric Cioe

Anyone? What sort of material do you prefer? I

I had a friend make me one out of soft (freemachine) brass. It looks more or less like a pedal steel bar, and is very heavy. I mostly use it in my right hand, using it like a bow, but moving it to harmonic nodes all over the string length. It works great on a bright fretless bass like my Travis Bean, especially with fuzz and ping-pong delay.

[poor_gear_whore]

Originally Posted by Passinwind

I had a friend make me one out of soft (freemachine) brass. It looks more or less like a pedal steel bar, and is very heavy. I mostly use it in my right hand, using it like a bow, but moving it to harmonic nodes all over the string length. It works great on a bright fretless bass like my Travis Bean, especially with fuzz and ping-pong delay.

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Why you ask? Because you can say "my" and "travis bean" in the same sentence. You suck.

[MickeyMickey]

Originally Posted by MikeyFingers

I especially like laying the guitar on my lap (strings facing up) and playing it like that, I'm suprisingly good playing that way when I use a Bic lighter as a slide....what's that style called again?

I believe it's called Dobro guitar, or something similar.

[Eric Cioe]

Originally Posted by MikeyFingers

I especially like laying the guitar on my lap (strings facing up) and playing it like that, I'm suprisingly good playing that way when I use a Bic lighter as a slide....what's that style called again?

Lap steel.

[Kroy]

Originally Posted by Eric Cioe

Lap steel.

That, or Dobro, they're both played like that.

[HaVIC5]

I used to use a slide while tapping. I put the slide on my pinky and then tapped out lines beyond the fretboard. It actually sounded like crap but looked pretty cool.

[oathbass462]

i do slide syd barrett style: with the side of a zippo. it just looks too cool.

[Viviuos]

I've dinked around with one at home but it dident turn out very well. It did sound better on my fretless then my fretted though.

[superbassman2000]

Matt Till had that interesting music video of him playing with a slide...it was pretty neat