I really think slide playing is a separate art that must be mastered even if you are pretty handy with picking.

Your dog seems to have given new meaning to "guitar lick"

Murray

Don't worry, when you get to a party every one will want you to play some blues. You sound like you live in Canada. Great wine and even greater wine bottles to cut the neck out of to make a "bottleneck" slide. I play most of the time (30 years now) in "D", but "E" is good. You might also try "G" >DGDGBD. Hope your still having "Dog days of Summer" so you can stil get a few "licks" in outside.

If you want to put in a "walking bass", what you can do is figure out what notes you are playing and tune your bass strtings to harmonize with them.

If I remember right, your slide guitar was an Epiphone. How do you like it?

Murray

I have been playing around with open D6 tuning. You tune your strings to make a D6 instead of a D. That is achieved by tuning the treble string to B instead of D. The great thing about it is then you have your "root" along the fretboard of the treble string instead of as an open string--so you can hit it with the slide. I "discovered" it in a piece called "Whistling Blues" by Rev. Garry Davis, transcribed by Stefan Grossman. There is no reason you can't use variants like D7, G6, etc.

Murray