Republic Tricone Resonator open D tuning slide guitar Amazing Grace

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Recently picked up playing slide, thought I'd put a video up. Hope you enjoy it. (update Dec 2010) It is very humbling to hear so many comments from people who enjoy this video. I have to say, this is really basic playing, and anyone can do it with a little practice. There are a lot of guys on YouTube that play AMAZING slide, Kenny Lee Burgess, Deltablues4761, Bottleneck John and others. You can see them in my favorites that I subscribe to. You really should check these guys out, you'll love it. BTW, since this was recorded I have switched to fingerstyle. I recommend anyone starting out avoid the crutch I used with the pick and just jump in with both feet. (update JAN 2011) for those who are interested in the gear - the instrument is a Republic Tricone. The recording setup uses both an amplified track and a room mic. If you look closely you can see the neck mounted LACE pickup. This is a slim humbucker made specifically for this type of application. It gives what you would expect, a more electric blues sound than natural acoustic tone. This sounds really great through a cranked old National lap steel amp for instance. The electric signal is going into a Behringer V-Amp Pro where I'm adding reverb and tremelo and using a Fender tweed deluxe type of amp setting. The acoustic track is actually 3 tracks, believe it or not. There are 2 pencil condenser mics in an XY pattern overhead and just out of view directly in front of the me is a Studio Projects C1 condenser. The 4 tracks are sent to a TASCAM 2488 NEO digital multitrack where I mixed the final track down. So you're not hearing the audio from the video camera at all. I synched-up the audio and video as best I could in Corel Video Studio. Of course uploading in a low quality flash video doesn't do a lot to help the final result, but you get the idea. The actual audio track sounds a lot better, and in case anyone would like a copy in lossless or MP3 format just shoot me an email, I'll give you a link to download it no charge. Thanks again for all the positive words, this encouragement is much appreciated!