thanks jay. youre gonna keep whippin me bout that slide huh, lol. well ima take a cue from you, and set my old yamastrat up for purely slide work. raise the action on it and leave it in open E tuning. part of the reason hadnt been practicin the slide is havin to change the guitar around, now i dont have to.
yeah i left the Ovation at the store and asked them to put lighter strings on it. I wish acoustics were as easy to play as electrics, lol. watched a clip of SRV playin a 12 string acoustic on MTV unplugged....cats fingers have got to be some of the strongest ever. probly from playin on 11's so long.
I doubt you'll regret having a slide-dedicated guitar around. Really opens up the musical ideas. Besides, you can always go back to regular.
What I do is remove the nut, and cut a piece of business card to fit under it. Slap some Elmer's glue on there, and reassemble. Then, adjust your bridge for the feel.
If you're fancy, I guess you could use a small shim of thin wood, but the business card works fine for me (unless you've got a medium height setup anyhow, and aren't clumsy like me--if mine is too low, I fret out all over the place).
I also use 11's for slide. I like the Dean Markley Nickel Steels since they come with a plain 3rd and a wound 3rd. I like the wound 3rd... nice, bottleneck-y tone.
However, if your Yamaha has a trem on it, you'll have to adjust the springs to up the string gauge.
Let us know how that works out.
Now, I've only got about 40 others on here to convert to sliding' bwahahahahahaha *thunder in the background*
Sorry. Please, continue the topic lol.
