Door French Glass Sliding Style
There's nothing quite like the sweet sound of glass, steel or pipe making a guitar string cry. No other sound immediately identifies blues music like slide guitar. There are almost as many different playing styles and sounds as there are variations in the tools of the trade and like all truly great art forms, it's fairly easy to pick up but difficult to master.
For the most part, a player chooses to wear a slide on the ring or third finger, which offers a good degree of control whilst leaving the other fingers free for chord shapes, escapes or stops. There are notable exceptions of course - Australian slide master Dave Hole pops his slide on his first finger and plays over the top of the neck. King of the Delta slide, Robert Johnson, wore his on the pinky or fourth finger, as did Hound Dog Taylor (even though he had five fingers and a thumb on each hand). Some musicians have opted not to wear a slide at all, instead using a flat horizontal slide laid across the guitar's strings (like Robert Randolph) or a small bottle (like Black Ace).
Bottleneck and the Blues
The technique of altering the pitch of a string in this way is sometimes referred to as bottleneck slide guitar as many slides were made from the necks of bottles. Glass gives a wonderfully warm, sweet tone to the strings and is favored by acoustic players, but is not the only material from which slides are made. Steel, brass and copper tubes find a perfect match in the distortion favored by electric players and offer a nice sharp bite as metal contacts with metal. If a material resonates, it will probably have found its way into the hands of a slide guitar player at some point.
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