Players... How do you get a clean sound when just hitting top or middle string and sliding the bottom? Everytime I try to add an open string before or after I slide, I get that darned string buzz! It happens on fretless and fretted guitars. It's hard to get a cool delta blues sound when string buzz is giving me the blues!!! It almost sounds like the sound you'd get when a string isn't tight and it seems to "rattle" a bit. Suggestions?
I thank you, and so do the people hearing me practice!
Rick
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ride your index finger behing the slide, perhaps? We'll work on a little technique when you come out, Rick.
Clearly, your instrument is possessed by unclean spirits. I recommend an exorcism.
BUzzing and odd harmonics are kind of part of slide playing. Try damping behind the slide or likely just keep practicing till it sounds the way you want. You really do have to develop a "touch" for slide and it is a little different with each slide type and guitar.
One of the great benefits of building your own instruments is no matter what it sounds like when you play, you can claim that it is supposed to sound EXACTLY like that!!
Excellent, Oily....I am exactly at the stage where that information was perfect for me.
Thank you,
kieta
I've found that timing is everything. If you have hit an open note and then want a rattle free slide note, then you have to damp the string just exactly before you hit it with the slide. I find that I can't consciously make that happen without making a big gap in the sound. You have to sort of imagine the result and let your fingers work it out. It also helps if you slide up to the intended note rather than try to hit it straight on. This way your slide is approaching the note in two dimensions (moving toward the string and up to the intended note position or fret) simultaneously. That sort of eases in the rattle. If your index finger is following the slide, then you get the damping almost automatically.
Hope that helps.
Maybe I mis-stated the issue... The slide over my bottom "thinnest" string is okay and clean, but when I pick at the top string open (fattest) that's when I get the rattle buzz... Am I supposed to have my slide on all 3 strings when doing slow type john mcnair stuff?
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