13 Facts About Slide guitar

Slide guitar is a technique for playing the guitar that is often used in blues music.

Lap slide guitar pioneers include Oscar "Buddy" Woods, "Black Ace" Turner, and Freddie Roulette.

Slide guitar performed on acoustic guitar in a style influenced by Tampa Red.

Slide guitar usually played single notes with a small metal slide on his little finger and dampened the strings combined with varying the volume to control the amount of distortion.

Slide guitar added memorable slide guitar to Derek and the Dominos' Layla and Other Assorted Love Songs album, notably its title track, which was ranked at number 13 on Rolling Stone's "100 Greatest Guitar Songs".

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Slide guitar extended the role of the slide guitar by mimicking the harmonica effects of Sonny Boy Williamson II, most clearly in the Allman Brothers' rendition of Williamson's "One Way Out", recorded live at the Fillmore East and heard on their album Eat a Peach.

Slide guitar, according to music educator Keith Wyatt, can be thought of as a "one-finger fretless guitar".

Open tunings commonly used with slide guitar include open D or Vestapol tuning: D–A–D–F–A–D; and open G or Spanish tuning: D–G–D–G–B–D.

Slide guitar was called "The Lone Wolf" after the title of his most successful song, "Lone Wolf Blues".

Slide guitar played an A7 tuning with a slant-bar style and never used finger picks.

Slide guitar earned a spot in Earl Hooker's band and recorded with Hooker in the 1960s.

Roulette's contribution to the lap slide guitar was to prove that a lap-played instrument was capable of holding its own in Chicago blues style.

Slide guitar used around a player's finger can be made with any type of smooth hard material that allows tones to resonate.