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[cur]

So I am screwed for a while.



Figure I can at least mess around with a slide. Any tunings better than others for slide guitar?
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[blacktaxi]

Go with any open tuning, like G or D, or maybe C. Basically, it's easier to do with an open tuning. You might even come up with your own.
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[Haze]

DADGAd is always good to mess around with. standard tunings good for me because i don't have to translate any chords or scales.

[Gavin]

Too much finger banging will do that.

[cur]

It was a real shocker when it happened.
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[Freddy V-C]

DGDGBD is my favourite.
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[Gavin]

[aen]

It turns out Aenstandard (DADAAE) comes courtesy of a Keith Richards slide tuning. But I think Aenstandard sounds better.
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[Rhysyrhys]

My standard slide tuning is DAFFAD. It's really nice for some cool droney bits and does a faux 12 string with the Fs in the middle. Good for blues and really pretty all round.


John Butler uses some crazy tunings, might want to check his flow man.
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[samuelcotterall]

That sucks, dude.

I normally have one guitar in DGDGBD, which slide or no slide, is a nice tuning.

[twangster]

Keith Richards used "open G"(DGDGBD) for songs like "Honky Tonk Woman", "Brown Sugar", and many more. He learned it from Ry Cooder. Bonnie Raitt uses the same tuning up a whole step to make "open A"(EAEAC#E) Muddy Waters and Robert Johnson also used this tuning as well as others.

"Open D"(DADF#AD) or "Open E"(EBEG#BE) is the Elmore James "Dust My Broom" tuning. Also used by Muddy, R. Johnson, and Hound Dog Taylor.

DADFAD pronounced Dad-Fad is used by a lot of songwriters without a slide and can give a droning celtic vibe.

I had the same problem once and bought an old lap steel and metal bar. It was easier than trying to play slide. If you get a really heavy bar you want have to push down with a lot of pressure which helps too.

Good Luck!

[George]

I believe Keith actually uses 5 strings, no bottom E; hence his methodology, "five strings, three notes, two fingers and one arsehole to play it". I've certainly never heard the bottom D on Stones records but I may just not be that well trained. Having tried it myself the low D muddies his riffs up and makes the lowest note a 5th which isn't too helpful.

Personally, I like open G but leaving the bottom E as E (EGDGBD). As it's the relative minor you can get some nice voicings come out with it (but don't use the string all the time!)

Also look at this...

DGCGBD - it's open G with a dropped D string to C, very nice and spatial. It's actually banjo open C tuning but on a guitar.

[twangster]

You are right Keith takes the 6th string or bottom D off of the normal DGDGBD tuning that the blues player used.

Also, I forgot! Dobro "G" tuning that the bluegrass dobro players use is "GBDGBD".

[George]

[George]

Hahaha sorry cur but I've just realised how fucked off you're gonna be switching between all these tunings without your left hand.

Hope there's enough guitars to go round sir.

[millagurnzie]

DADF#AD is my fav


wrote this song using it:

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