Hammond’s main acoustic guitar is a Pleinview Guitars Small Jumbo made by the luthier Raymond Morin. And the slide is the closest thing I’ve found on guitar to the human voice, so it’s pretty easy to get lost in the sounds the slide makes and then wake up about 30 minutes later.”. Pledge your support and get bonus lessons! Manx uses acrylic nails on his picking hand, a Dunlop Lap Dawg tonebar, and assorted Elixir strings. If the occasion calls for it, he amplifies his instruments using the Lace Ultra Slim Acoustic Sensor and plugging into either a ZT Lunchbox or Lunchbox Acoustic amp. “That’s what started it for me,” Wamble says. “It’s been all over the map.”. Hammond also plays a baritone lap resonator and a 12-string lap resonator, both by Turkey Tone (luthier Chris Harvey), as well as a Republic resonator guitar for bottleneck slide. “I was playing around in the orchard of our village home one afternoon when my mom gave me a very old Hawaiian [lap style] six-string guitar,” Bhattacharya, a major proponent of Hindustani slide guitar, remembers. Video lessons week by week, Chord by Chord. While the origins might be murky, it’s clear that slide guitar became popular with blues guitarists like Robert Johnson and Son House and Hawaiian musicians such as Sol Hoopii in the first half of the 20th century, to say nothing of country-and-western and bluegrass musicians like Noel Boggs and Leon McAuliffe. Dunlop 285 Preachin’ Pipe (My Top Pick) Shubb AX Axyx Reversable Slide (Best High-End) Dunlop 246 Moonshine Ceramic Guitar Slide (Best Budget) Fender FCSS1 Steel Slide. I agree that a good solid toped acoustic can have great slide tone, but so can an el-cheapo guitar. Within a week he had a gig with Madeleine Peyroux, and he first recorded as a sideman for Marsalis on the bandleader’s 1999 album Big Train. His mother was the house pianist in their Baptist church, and his maternal grandfather, an amateur but dedicated musician, played gospel and country songs on his guitar at home. Though her first loves were country and folk, she began on classical guitar and later studied with guitarist Nina Gerber, who taught her to improvise—an aspect that has remained a big part of her music. Dawson, who estimates that 80 percent of his work involves a slide, plays both in conventional position and lap-style on the Weissenborn; he also does a good bit of pedal steel. He found the music a “sloppy act,” as he remembers it—at least relative to the pristine Indian classical music that was in his DNA—so he worked out a way to reconcile these seemingly disparate worlds. Hammond also plays a baritone lap resonator and a 12-string lap resonator, both by Turkey Tone (luthier Chris Harvey), as well as a Republic resonator guitar for bottleneck slide. He uses assorted D’Addario strings, Planet Waves Nylpro picks, and a Shubb AXYS reversible guitar slide. An asterisk (*) denotes that other sources give different dates, origin, or style. He accepted me as his student and gave me a veena. sfn error: no target: CITEREFHerzhaft1996 (, Learn how and when to remove these template messages, Learn how and when to remove this template message, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=List_of_slide_guitarists&oldid=978225317, Articles to be expanded from October 2019, Articles needing additional references from October 2019, All articles needing additional references, Articles with multiple maintenance issues, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License. Anderson, based in Portland, Oregon, began playing guitar in the early 1980s, when she was around ten. Early on in his musical development, Bhattacharya realized that he needed specialized gear to realize his visions, and in 1978, when he was 15, he made his own instrument. His guitars are strung with various D’Addarios, and he prefers a no-name lead crystal slide for bottleneck and a Dunlop 925 Ergo tonebar for lap-style play. Slide guitarists are musicians who are well-known for playing guitar with a "slide", a smooth, hard object, held in the fretting hand and placed against the strings to control the pitch. “Western influences haven’t confused me, but rather have empowered me,” Bhattacharya says. Marisa Anderson might spend less time on slide than the other guitarists featured here—she estimates that about a third of her current work uses the bottleneck—and she plays acoustic as often as electric. D'Addario Planet Waves Glass Slide. “I took up guitar at the same time as I got into jazz.”. It’s literal and physical, moving an object along the neck of the guitar,” she says. “The raga and improv music lends itself to being able to compose on the fly, and to trust yourself and trust your ears. He also has a National Style 0; a Gold Tone model Banjitar six-string banjo (tuned to open C); and a four-string cigar box instrument (tuned F F C F), made by the luthier Grant Wickland.