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Good for you, I've never had the patience to sit down and learn properly... I remember when I had the fanciful idea of buying a pedal steel, sold my Les Paul and had the cash I needed for a nice Sho-Bud from Rhodes Music... Got talking to the guy in there, he asked if I'd ever played one and I said no, then asked if I'd ever played lap steel, again I said no... Then he asked if I played slide and I said I did but I was shit at it, he told me I'd be an idiot to buy it...
I bought a Casio FZ-1 sampler instead... I couldn't get rid of that thing in the end, had to leave it in the street for the bin men... What a waste... I'm an idiot after all!!
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Spent some time practicing playing slide at the weekend. Not sure why, just did. Slide is something I've dabbled in since day one but never really devoted any time to practicing properly.
Been trying hard to concentrate on muting behind and in front of the slide properly and getting a few nice little bluesy 1/4 note bends sounding clean. I'm still on an early ZZ top jag and trying to cop a few licks from the Just Got Paid solo. The persistence is starting to pay off and it's definitely sounding less shit-busker-on-the-tube than it previously has.