New P/Ups on a Gibson SG?

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toyL
I've been playing slide for years.
I have an old Harmony I use and a fairly new Dean Performer.
The Harmony must be forty years old.
I bought two Dean Performers.
One of the Deans I removed the radial saddle and replaced it with a flat bone saddle. I raised the action about 1/8 of an inch. Now it's really had to finger fret, but the slide doesn't bump into the frets with lower action.
I use those old blackdiamond strings. For slides I use bottlenecks and steel and brass pipes. Hardware stores is where to look for metal slides. Much much cheaper than those slides being sold for $5 to $20 in music stores.
If your interested in making bottleneck slides lemme know and I'll post the best way I know.

Here are a few tunings for slide I use.

Open E
E B E G# B E

Open D is a step down.
D A D F# A D

Open G
D G D G B D

I have a list of about fifty or more tunings but those are the ones I use.

Ya know, that's not a bad idea either, about your fretting hand. If your not familiar with open tuning, here is a set of lesson you may be interested in. The guy talks a lot, but has some good basic in for to help get started, and it's free. One more thing about the lessons, Brian isn't a recording engineer. :)

http://www.bigroadblues.com/

Scroll down about half way and there'll be a heading on the right side about blues lessons. He offers some nice riffs and basic slide theory.

Here is the link to the exact page so ya don't get lost.

http://artists.mp3s.com/artists/280/brian_robertson.html

There are ten lessons in all. They are mixed up in his songs, and the titles are:
Learn Slide Guitar #1
all the way through
Learn Slide Guitar #10.

You can listen to them or download them, they're free.

In the forum is some great info on making slides, techniques, and more. The forum has slowed down but the info is still there.
 
killer sites, badgas...I was a metal-polisher for a semester some time ago...definitely start a new thread--just tell us straight-up how to make "different" slides for various tonal effects...we will all be glad to know...slide-metals 101...& 102 too...
 
and glass...yes, I'm familiar with all the "open" tunings...I recently did the tab for 'a day in the life"--jeff becks version in open G--a real guitar players' rendition--he did two versions...check out the live one in japan...
 
I'll do that toyL.
I'll post it in the acoustics forum. Mainly because I thing there are more acoustic sliders than electric. Or would slides be concidered gear? Lemme know. I don't want anyone yelling and flogging me for posting in the wrong forum, though this site is really good about posting mistakes.

Give me a day or two to get my stuff together. ;)

Ya know, toyL, after I posted that last post, I grabbed my J30 E and slipped my harp holder on and was blowing some blues.
I bet, if you don't already, you could learn the harp too. It's really easy, fun, a great motivater. Also, if your hands become harder to use there isn't much hand work involved other than cupping them around the thing for tone and added effects.
Just an idea. I can't think of my life with out music, and I was imagining my hands going bad. The harp came to mind.
 
toyL,

have you heard of the "neuro" type implants that are being used to control Parkinsons'?
I saw a short segment on TV last night about the system and the results are bloody amazing. Apparently it controls/subdues the part of the brain that causes the problems and it is a reversable process that can be removed if needed.

If you wish I will try and track down the source of the information.

Peace.........ChrisO :cool:
 
ausrock
I saw something about that also.
Since toyL mentioned Parkinson's I've been reading some about it cuz I had no idea what it was. Fact is I thought only the very elderly got it.
From what that article said, it appears to diminish the long term effects of Parkinson's.
I too will look for that article.
 
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