Slide (guitar technique) | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 2019-01-23

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00:01:49 1 History
00:06:04 2 Influential early electric slide guitarists
00:06:44 2.1 Robert Nighthawk
00:08:10 2.2 Earl Hooker
00:09:26 2.3 Elmore James
00:10:42 2.4 Muddy Waters
00:12:11 3 In 1960s rock music
00:17:25 4 Technique
00:19:59 5 Resonator guitars
00:21:08 6 Lap slide guitar
00:23:03 7 Lap slide guitar pioneers
00:25:53 8 Slides and steels
00:27:48 9 See also
00:28:00 10 Footnotes



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Slide guitar is a particular technique for playing the guitar that is often used in blues-style music. The technique involves placing an object against the strings while playing to create glissando effects and deep vibratos that make the music emotionally expressive. It typically involves playing the guitar in the traditional position (flat against the body) with the use of a tubular "slide" fitted on one of the guitarist's fingers. The slide may be a metal or glass tube like the neck of a bottle. The term "bottleneck" was historically used to describe this type of playing. The strings are typically plucked while the slide is moved over the strings to change the pitch. The guitar may also be placed on the player's lap and played with a hand-held bar and is then referred to as "lap slide guitar" or "lap steel guitar".
Creating music with a slide of some type has been traced back to primitive stringed instruments in African culture 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 Nighthawk, Earl Hooker, Elmore James and Muddy Waters popularized slide guitar in the electric blues genre and influenced later slide guitarists in the rock genre including the Rolling Stones, Duane Allman and Ry Cooder. Lap slide guitar pioneers include Oscar "Buddy" Woods, "Black Ace" Turner and Freddie Roulette.