slide guitarist

Steel-string slider specialist

A slide guitarist is a musician who plays guitar using the slide technique—pressing a smooth tube of glass, metal, or ceramic against the strings instead of fretting normally.

This produces a gliding, vocal-like tone associated with blues, country, and rock music: Duane Allman was one of the greatest slide guitarists in rock history.

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fretboard · twang · lap · blues · glissando · blues licks · tone · crying tone · vibrato · delta · acoustic · electric · strings · fingerpicking · open tuning · country · Nashville sound · Hawaiian

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guitar technique/playing method

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Musician playing fingerstyle acoustic repertoire

shredder · flamenco guitarist · jazz guitarist · lead guitarist · rhythm guitarist

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Top 500,000
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Used worldwide · Timeless · Concrete · Rated G