Description
In the previous lesson I showed you how a lapslide Dobro works. Now let's check out how you can get those sounds if you don't have one of those!
And the first thing you wanna do is to find a way of temporarily raising your action without damaging your instrument. I use what's called an extension nut, and it's a little piece of metal that goes on top of your nut to temporarily raise your action! They are less than $10 and you can get them online.
Alternatively you can take out the little piece of bone or plastic from your bridge and put small pieces of paper or cardboard under it. Thicker strings will also raise the action, but you wanna be really careful with that cause it puts extra tension on your neck. I have 13's on the guitar in this video.
Remember that you can use your regular finger slide to play lap style, simply by holding it instead of wearing it on your finger!
After this we'll get your guitar into the open G tuning (G B D G B D) and break down the melody that we'll be playing at the end of this tutorial!
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