Tunings for Slide guitar

Tony Dingus · Post by **Tony Dingus** » 22 Dec 2003 5:46 am

What's your favorite tuning for lap steel to play slide guitar? I've got in G and recently
I tuned one to E.
Tony

Terry VunCannon · Post by **Terry VunCannon** » 22 Dec 2003 7:09 am

Hi Tony...I use E or one step down in D...That's the tuning that David Lindley uses the most.

Christer Fredriksen · Post by **Christer Fredriksen** » 22 Dec 2003 11:12 am

Hi!
In case you haven't already found it: http://www.well.com/user/wellvis/steel.html
Plenty of tunings there..

Christer

Chris Scruggs · Post by **Chris Scruggs** » 24 Dec 2003 3:56 am

Slide guitar? Isn't it still a steel guitar?

Tony Dingus · Post by **Tony Dingus** » 24 Dec 2003 4:00 pm

Right Chris. I refer to the term "slide" as using a glass or metal tube on a acoustic or electric guitar, clean or distorted. I can't play slide the tradional way, so I use my steel. I have a pedal,2 lap steels, a 24" electric guitar with the strings raised, a True Tone small body acoustic with the strings raised and 2 resonaters that I use and some tunings work better for this style than others. I was listening to Dan Dugmore
play slide on a couple tunes the other day.
I think he was using G tuning. To me different tunings are almost like using effects. One might sound better than another
for a certain song. I hope I made sense with this. Merry Christmas, Tony