Convert your guitar for Slide
If you want to start playing lap guitar you are going to need to make a few changes. First find yourself a bar or a bottleneck and secondly get your guitar into shape. If you can’t afford a professional lap guitar which has broad string spacing you can convert one of your usual guitars for lap playing by changing the nut, the tuning and switching over to heavy guage strings. This will exert pressure on your guitar over time so it is wise not to pick your $5000 antique Gibson
Learn to slide
Jimmy Heffernan has a fantastic course for dobro guitar called Dobro Handbook check it out.
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