slide

my dear friend nick sent me a guitar slide
in the mail. i've never played with a slide
before, but today i decided to give it a
shot. i used it with the classical acoustic
guitar that i play, which is probably not
how you're supposed to use a slide. but it
was fun! i liked two things about it a lot:
1) it made the guitar more of a continuous
instrument, versus the normal discrete fretted
version of the guitar. 2) it made the guitar
more percussive; since i couldn't really do
much with my left hand, i started strumming
with my right hand, which i almost never do
any more.

i'll give one caveat -- it gets a little
crazy at the end. i decided not to edit it
out though, because i think it's interesting
that all those sounds were just being made
with an acoustic guitar and a slide! i
thought it was lots of fun. thanks nick!



enjoy!