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Bitchin
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11/15/2003 12:36 am
I just bought a brass slide and I have no clue what to do with it....help!
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11/15/2003 1:12 pm
It depends on what you bought it for , but you can play guitar with it. ;)

Wear it in your fretting hand's pinky and just touch the strings to make a decent sound ... Try to play Pink Floyd's "High Hopes" solo .
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11/15/2003 1:55 pm
OK dude, three approaches to playing slide: 1 tune your Axe to an open chord (I like E) and use it to cover many strings simultaneously. The trick with this style is to keep the slide strait and level with the fret board whilst playing. You also don't kneed to push down very hard. This is a sort of George Thorogood style.


The second is to leave your Axe tuned normally and play run with the slide a la Jeff Beck. This is difficult.

The third is to play runs using open tuning. This will fry your Brain if you try and think about it too much however sometimes just noodling about will produce some nice results !

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11/15/2003 3:07 pm
May I ask why you brought it if you don't even know what it's for??? :confused:
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11/17/2003 4:53 pm
Wear it on your pinky or ring (I prefer the ring), and keep all the fingers of your fretting hand together (as if you were holding a ham sandwich) and align the slide to the actual fret rather than above the fret.

I stole this from a hockey card, I keep tucked up under...

I mean, I stole this from a Dunlop slide package (except for the ham sandwich part, that was my idea!). I have a slide, too, and use it pretty sparingly/unconventionally, although I would totally love to be able to play it like Duane Allman or the like.
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11/17/2003 5:41 pm
Check this out for some slide playing. This is me playing, amongst other things, a 72 reissue thinline tele tuned to open E.
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11/18/2003 12:18 am
I wouldn't reccomend "sticking you peter in it." Just for safety's sake I though I'd put that.

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11/18/2003 10:35 am
i personally use a very short glass slide (about 2 cm long) and i stick it on my middlefinger (!) like you would wear a ring, but not at the base of the finger but on the second joint. that way the tip of my finger is free to play normal runs and such but i can, at any point, switch over to use the slide. i maily use it in a jeff-beck kind of manner - i hardly every play those typical slide-cliche things for i simply HATE the sound of it.

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11/18/2003 10:36 am
oh yes.. i pity those whose thingy is small enough to fit into a slide *LOL*

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11/19/2003 12:36 am
I'm glad I don't have a penis, because I'd probably have a small one knowing my luck.

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11/19/2003 2:57 am
HAHA. You could borrow some of mine if you needed extra.
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11/19/2003 3:20 am
Hmm... well I wonder what he's implying besides he has a big dick. Maybe that he's good at sharing too! Thanks for the friend gesture I suppose. If I ever get a penis, and its small I know who to turn to.

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11/19/2003 6:13 am
It might be worth a shot if he tries it. I got a uncle who seems to think that is the answer to every question about "what to do with something". It's getting my 6 yr old nephew in trouble though, since he's freaking out alot of the gurls at his school.

I'm not commenting anymore since it's already turning into a sausage fest here, one being a chick too (talking about having a penis). BTW, iiholly did you know that you don't smell dogpoop until someone steps in it??
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11/19/2003 6:23 am
NTM,

weird analogy.

I thought you said you'd be coming to the chat now!!

Get your butt in there!!
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11/19/2003 4:47 pm
Sorry dewd, I would have been there if I had gotten it. I'll update my profile so peeps with AIM can IM me whenever.
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11/19/2003 7:27 pm
This may just be me, but before we started talking about chatting, putting your penis in a slide, and letting chicks with penises borrow some of yours, wasn't this thread about slide guitar? Just curious.
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11/19/2003 7:58 pm
Originally posted by Jolly McJollyson
This may just be me, but before we started talking about chatting, putting your penis in a slide, and letting chicks with penises borrow some of yours, wasn't this thread about slide guitar? Just curious.


Yeah chicks who want dicks really like it when I use my peter as a slide on my guitar. :p
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11/19/2003 8:23 pm
Okay, okay, dude, enough with the using the slide as a jimmy hat.
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11/19/2003 11:00 pm

Yeah chicks who want dicks really like it when I use my peter as a slide on my guitar. :p [/B][/QUOTE]

Is that even possible?

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11/20/2003 1:11 am
Originally posted by iiholly
Is that even possible?


No Comment! 'lol'
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