Slide Rules books
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Slide Rules:
Tunings for Lap Steel, Bottleneck, Resophonic, and Indian Slide Guitar
- For 6, 8, 10-string Guitars -
Designed to fit in your guitar case, Slide Rules includes over 70 of the most popular and useful tunings for acoustic & electric lap steel guitar, bottleneck slide guitar, resophonic guitar, Weissenborn® and Hindustani slide guitar as used by the greatest players of the past and present. The book features tunings & string gauges for Rock, Blues, Country, Hawaiian, Western Swing, Folk, Celtic, Bluegrass, Jazz, Pop, Cajun, Ambient, Classical, Raga and every genre in between.
Presented in an easy-to-read, graphic manner, the strings, notes, & musical intervals for each tuning are shown along with comments about the tuning; its uses, advantages and the players who’ve used it. A string gauge chart helps you set-up each tuning with the proper gauge strings.
Slide Rules: Tunings for Lap Steel, Bottleneck, Resophonic, and Indian Slide Guitar, by Andy Volk
Frequent FJ contributor Andy Volk has complied an excellent guide to the various tunings used on six, eight and ten string slide guitars.The book includes a guide to string gauges, which is invaluable for setting up your instrument; a brief history of the slide guitar; and a section on Hindustani slide styles. It's only 38 pages long, but just about every page contains information that is almost impossible to find anywhere else.
- Michael Simmons, The Fretboard Journal