Types of Slide Guitars

Video Transcript

"On behalf of Expert Village, I'm Reno McCormick and I'm here to tell you about playing the Dobro today. Well, this is the guitar we put the perfect nut on. We turned it into a Dobro. It works exactly like you would play Dobro, only it doesn't have quite the sound. This is more of a blues sound. So, it's fine and when we want to turn it back, loosen our strings, take out that perfect nut, we have our original nut there, and it sounds just like it did before. No changes to the guitar. For blues, it's really the way to go. But if you do like the Dobro sound and want to play blues, all you have to do is buy a round neck resophonic guitar. You can play it like a regular guitar or you could lay it down, put the perfect nut on it, or you could play it without it. If you hear, when I slide I'm going to hit those frets once in a while because it takes a lot lighter touch because our strings are way close to the neck. So it's nice to just lift those up. So it sounds just like a squareneck guitar. If you noticed, it's round, no problems there, you can play it any way you like. And we come back to the squareneck Dobro. You're never going to play regular guitar on this. I'd say that's three-eighths of an inch off the neck and you're going to hurt yourself. So you lay it on your lap. If I tuned this to a lower tuning, we could make it sound more bluesy. Right now it's tuned to a regular G and there's a lot of tension on this bridge so it's got that bluegrass sound, and nice and tight. In blues you want a loose, flowing kind of sound. Bluegrass we want it nice and tight. And that's exactly what we want."