I made a trip to the music store this week. I picked up a Blues Bottle Slide. Playing guitar with a glass slide is an interesting experience. It gives the guitar a new sound. On which finger are you supposed to wear the slide? I’ve noticed that some modern blues musicians wear the slide on their left-hand pinkie finger. While some rock musicians such as Joe Perry and the dude from Clutch wear it on their ring finger. There is also the matter of tuning. A little research on the Internet reveals that many musicians drop the 1st, 5th and 6th strings by a whole step in a tuning scheme called “G tuning”. This tuning was popular among many delta blues artists.

I also bought a Boss TU-80 Tuner & Metronome. It is great for tuning my acoustic guitar. The metronome does not get very loud. But it does have a cool LCD display. So I can time my playing with the image I see on the screen.