If you want to expand the sounds you can get on slide guitar in open e tuning, then check out this tutorial on emulating pedal steel. Pedal Steel is a really cool instrument and can be extremely difficult to learn, carry around, and they are quite expensive.
So what if you want to get that type of sound on slide guitar?
Well I can’t say that you will sound just like a pedal steel, but you’ll be able to fake it good enough to add some variety to your slide guitar playing. In my opinion, this will help you to land more gigs, open up more recording opportunities, and will help develop your slide guitar playing by trying to comp some steel licks.
Listen, anything you can do to add to your knowledge of music will help your guitar playing. By listening to other instruments like steel, saxophone, harmonica, and piano, your playing will take on new creative qualities that you would have missed out on if you were just listening to blues guitar all the time.
Jimi Hendrix listened to all types of music, and you can hear it in his songs. He was very fond of classical music, and I think it comes across in the landscapes he built in such songs as “Have You Ever Been (To Electric Ladyland)” as well as many others.
I myself listen to Chopin, Debussy, and Beethoven quite frequently. Listening to those classical melodies will really put some great music in your head which will in turn translate to your fingertips.
To achieve this pedal steel emulation on slide guitar, I found these things extremely helpful.
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