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New guy saying hi

Posted: Tue Dec 15, 2015 3:41 pm
by SlideNGo
Howdy. So I'm new here. New to slide guitar playing. Not new to playing guitar or finger picking for that matter. Don't use a pick at all and plan to keep it that way especially since I'm already (almost) over the hump. :-)

I would like to solicit a few ideas on some slower openG blues songs.

Gosh, I'm playing Walking Blues from Clapton and I'm having a bit of a hard time to blend the playing with the singing. I don't usually have a problem with rhytm but this one feels almost counterintuitive. Maybe I just need to play it more and get used to it. Separately, singing it I nail it and separately playing it is good enough for now...

Cheers

Re: New guy saying hi

Posted: Tue Dec 15, 2015 4:17 pm
by 12bar
:welcome: to the forum. :wave:

Feel free to share some of your recordings! Many of us don't even sing a note (including me), so being able to sing is already a big step forward. :big_smile:

Re: New guy saying hi

Posted: Wed Dec 16, 2015 9:30 am
by VikingBlues
:welcome: to the forum SlideNGo. :D

I'm with you on the use of fingers rather than a pick. :thumbsup: I've only really dabbled a bit with slide and singing. Singing and playing at the same time on ANY song is a major challenge for me resulting in a recording of guitar part first while imagining the vocal line - then overdubbing vocals - a terrible cheat I know, but it avoids a horror story.

I have also only dabbled in OpenG as far as blues goes, though I have used the tuning for acoustic improvs and old traditional celtic works. I find that bottom string a bit pesky and not much use in that tuning and can see why Keef discarded it!

I reckon that mostly any blues slide I've done has been OpenE. I'll also admit that any of my slide playing is done with no reference to how a particular player does it - my only aim is to at least have it sounding half decent.

So I'm not sure I can bring much illumination to any queries you might have. But feel free to post about specific issues and I will try and make sensible suggestions! :D

Re: New guy saying hi

Posted: Wed Dec 16, 2015 10:17 am
by zimmie
Hi there and welcome friend :))
Newbie myself and enjoying the forum.

Re: New guy saying hi

Posted: Wed Dec 16, 2015 11:12 am
by MichaelRobinson
I'm not as eloquent as many others in this forum so it will be a short welcome and hope you stay.

:welcome: from Sweden

Re: New guy saying hi

Posted: Wed Dec 16, 2015 1:07 pm
by SlideNGo
Thanks for the warm welcome. The skies opened and a miracle happened in the form of a Academy of Modern Music moving into a building 200 steps from my work. So I rented 1 hour twice per week at lunch time! Yay. Going to play today and practice the song again. Will report progress while slowly start looking for another song to learn.

Re: New guy saying hi

Posted: Tue Mar 01, 2016 2:05 am
by MikeL
12bar wrote:Many of us don't even sing a note (including me), so being able to sing is already a big step forward.
I've never let not being able to sing stop me from trying; then again, I only sing in the privacy of my own home. And my singing is only marginally worse than my guitar playing. :away:

Re: New guy saying hi

Posted: Tue Mar 01, 2016 8:02 am
by 12bar
SlideNGo wrote:Will report progress while slowly start looking for another song to learn.
Any progress? :wink:

Re: New guy saying hi

Posted: Tue Mar 01, 2016 11:02 pm
by Blackhorse
Looks like he slid n went! :away: