I have been struggling to learn the CBG. Is the fretless slide, fretted fingering / finger picking or just strumming with chords the easiest way to learn. I am not making much progress with the slide. I have no previous music experience
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Try my beginning slide video:
http://www.cigarboxnation.com/video/beginning-slide-by-skeesix
I had no experience either when I started. I built a fretless first cause it was easier to build. I had to build a fretted instrument though before I really felt like I was getting somewhere.
Just my 2 cents
Keep at it and goodluck.
one string diddly bow or a strum stick dulcimer
As a fretless builder and player and someone with no prior musical experience, I cannot understand how finger fretting cords can be easier to learn than the slide. With no frets you only have to get a single object into postion. With frets I have to get five fingers into postions. And learning to push down on the frets correctly is no easier than leaning to use a slide.
Besides, how can you play the blues without a slide. Isnt there a law against that or something.
HI, do not try to learn diddley bow!...you have to be rather talented to make it sound good!...try a 3 string....a diddley bow you will need to a have a good ear for tone and pitch , otherwise you will get frustrated fast!!!
a three string you can let the strings ring open and the instrument will sound good with little effort!
I purposely built my first few guitars without frets forcing me to concentrate on the slide. I rarely even pickup a fretted guitar anymore.
Good advice from Bad Finger here. Figure out what you want to play and build or buy a guitar to suit that style. Even with that, it's still 1% inspiration and 99% perspiration. Anything can be done with enough good, focused practice. Don't get discouraged! Every time you pick up your guitar, you are learning something!
I'd side with those who say slide is more difficult, but only slightly. Frets make it easier to hit the notes, but with a 3 or 4 string slide guitar tuned open, all you really have to do is go from open to the 5th and the 7th fret position. Check out the vids mentioned here and like Oily said, get the 12 bar blues progression down. You learn it once and then you can play about 435,167 songs. That will lead to rock if that's your bag and there is a lot of crossover to country, folk and so on. Don't worry about picking out a melody at first, just get the slide changes down and keep a steady rhythm.
I built a 3 string fretless slide cbg first. I'd never played slide guitar much at all. I messed around with that a while picking up things here n there from Shane Speal, Mike Snowden and Chickenbone John youtube videos. Then I built a one string diddley bow and actually learned more about handling the slide and picking out things by ear. Everyone learns differently. Above all ... Have Fun !!!
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