"Lap slide guitar" redirects here. For the steel guitar, see Lap steel guitar.
A musician playing slide guitar style; The slide is on his left ring finger. He is playing a metal-body resonator guitar (a National-type) using fingerpicks on his right hand.
Slide guitar is a technique for playing the guitar that is often used in blues music. It involves playing a guitar while holding a hard object (a slide) against the strings, creating the opportunity for glissando effects and deep vibratos that reflect characteristics of the human singing voice. It typically involves playing the guitar in the traditional position (flat against the body) with the use of a slide fitted on one of the guitarist's fingers. The slide may be a metal or glass tube, such as the neck of a bottle, giving rise to the term bottleneck guitar to describe this type of playing. The strings are typically plucked (not strummed) while the slide is moved over the strings to change the pitch. The guitar may be placed on the player's lap and played with a hand-held bar (lap steel guitar).
Creating music with a slide of some type has been traced back to African stringed instruments and also to the origin of the steel guitar in Hawaii. Near the beginning of the twentieth century, blues musicians in the Mississippi Delta popularized the bottleneck slide guitar style, and the first recording of slide guitar was by Sylvester Weaver in 1923. Since the 1930s, performers including Robert Johnson, Robert Nighthawk, Earl Hooker, Elmore James, and Muddy Waters popularized slide guitar in electric blues influencing later slide guitarists in rock music including The Rolling Stones, George Harrison, Duane Allman, and Ry Cooder. Lap slide guitar pioneers include Oscar "Buddy" Woods, "Black Ace" Turner, and Freddie Roulette.
Slideguitar is a technique for playing the guitar that is often used in blues music. It involves playing a guitar while holding a hard object (a slide)...
of creating music with a slide of some type has been traced back to early African instruments, but the modern steel guitar was conceived and popularized...
strings. For this reason, slideguitar and steel guitar playing are very often fingerstyle. Slideguitar or bottleneck guitar is a particular method or...
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Allman (founder, slideguitar and lead guitar) and Gregg Allman (vocals, keyboards, songwriting), as well as Dickey Betts (lead guitar, vocals, songwriting)...
Kekuku, who became known for playing a traditional guitar by laying it across his lap and sliding a piece of metal against the strings to change the pitch...
influential tenure in the band and in particular for his expressive slideguitar playing and inventive improvisational skills. A sought-after session...
they are used in the playing of slide and bottleneck guitars. Many musicians use open tunings when playing slideguitar. For the standard tuning, there...
slideguitar blues, add a sprinkle of gospel and some compelling grooves and you'll get Manx's unique "mysticssippi" flavour." Manx plays the slide guitar...
leadership role. In the course of one night's traveling, he practiced slideguitar intensively in order to be able to cover the majority of Duane's parts...
Sweet Lord", and introduced his signature sound as a solo artist, the slideguitar. He also organised the 1971 Concert for Bangladesh with Indian musician...
experimented with acoustic guitar, slideguitar, effects pedals, fuzzbox, talk box, and keyboards as well as running his guitar straight into a Leslie speaker...
Kirchhoff. By 1967, Schenker, realizing that he could not sing and play the guitar at the same time, invited the 15-year-old Werner Hoyer to take the place...
group originally consisted of lead guitarist and vocalist Peter Green, slide guitarist and vocalist Jeremy Spencer, bassist Bob Brunning and drummer...
vocals and acoustic guitar), John Jeffers (lead guitar, slideguitar, lap steel guitar, vocals), Cody Tate (lead and rhythm guitar, vocals), Jeff Hogg...
electric guitar can be modified by new playing techniques such as string bending, tapping, and hammering-on, using audio feedback, or slideguitar playing...
to record the slideguitar style, in which a guitar is fretted with a knife blade or the sawed-off neck of a bottle. The slideguitar became an important...
Continuum (New York, NY, 2006; ISBN 0-8264-2819-3). Simon Leng, While My Guitar Gently Weeps: The Music of George Harrison, Hal Leonard (Milwaukee, WI,...
Guitar tunings are the assignment of pitches to the open strings of guitars, including classical guitars, acoustic guitars, and electric guitars. Tunings...
contributed guitar, slideguitar, and bass on the albums Fading Lines (2016) and European Heartbreak (2018) by Dutch artist Amber Arcades. Duffy played slide guitar...
1984, Nils Lofgren (guitar, vocals) was added to replace Van Zandt; Springsteen's future wife Patti Scialfa (vocals, later guitar) was also added to the...
accident with a model airplane, so Ry Cooder sat in and played the song's slide part. Lowell's accident is referenced on the cover art of the band's 1998...
such musicians as Ry Cooder, David Lindley and Taj Mahal – Tony added slideguitar, singing and songwriting to his musical toolbox and began leading his...
Tatts played peerless, street-level heavy blues with the emphasis on slideguitar and strident lyric statements". Guns N' Roses, L.A. Guns, Keel, Nashville...
a tone bar, slide bar, guitarslide, slide, or bottleneck, is a smooth hard object which is pressed against strings to play steel guitar and is itself...
videos for Arlen Roth's Hot Licks Video: Electric Blues & SlideGuitar and Acoustic Slide and the art of Electric Improvisation. He discusses his influences...
electric guitar, and violin), Michael Travis (drums and percussion), Bill Nershi (acoustic guitar, lap steel guitar, and electric slideguitar), Kyle Hollingsworth...
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