Last month my daughter steered me to a 2 hour training session by Eric Noden about John Lee Hooker’s Open G Tuning. There was no slide playing going on in that session, BUT when I took home that Open G Tuning and decided to try (for the zillionth time) putting a slide on my finger, I quickly starting hearing something I liked.
I had tried open E with the slide quite a few times over the years, but could never get much I liked out of the slide in open E, except for stuff like Rolled and Tumbled, or Elmore’s signature rifts.
But the open G opened a door so to speak.
So I plan to record something and post it in our Shameless Plugs section,
that is, when and if my slide work ever progresses from shameful to shameless.
I can’t find my shiny steel slide I paid over $12 for, so I been using a section of copper pipe, which turned my finger green until I washed the slide inside and out with CLR, that lost the greening effect. I know it is the fad nowadays to go green, but I reckon I’ll find other ways to go green than to sport a green finger.
In the past I’ve used aluminum conduit but couldn’t get it perfectly smooth all the way around, and it doesn’t ring so nice as the copper and certainly not as good as the shiny steel.
I had tried open E with the slide quite a few times over the years, but could never get much I liked out of the slide in open E, except for stuff like Rolled and Tumbled, or Elmore’s signature rifts.
But the open G opened a door so to speak.
So I plan to record something and post it in our Shameless Plugs section,
that is, when and if my slide work ever progresses from shameful to shameless.
I can’t find my shiny steel slide I paid over $12 for, so I been using a section of copper pipe, which turned my finger green until I washed the slide inside and out with CLR, that lost the greening effect. I know it is the fad nowadays to go green, but I reckon I’ll find other ways to go green than to sport a green finger.
In the past I’ve used aluminum conduit but couldn’t get it perfectly smooth all the way around, and it doesn’t ring so nice as the copper and certainly not as good as the shiny steel.
