Sliding chord producing device for a guitar and method of use
View Patent ↗The present invention is a sliding chord producing device and method of use for a user playing a guitar with a neck, a plurality of strings and a plurality of frets. The device has a generally tubular metal handle with two metal support rods that can be grasped by the user that are perpendicularly attached to the handle. There is also a vertical generally tubular metal slide and a diagonal generally tubular metal slide that are in movable contact with the neck, the strings and the frets that are perpendicularly attached to the handle by the support rods at a fixed angle forming the device. The device can also be made of glass.
1. A sliding chord producing device for a user playing a guitar with a neck, a plurality of strings and a plurality of frets, comprising:
a generally tubular metal handle with two metal support rods that can be grasped by said user, said rods each with a proximal end and a distal end that are perpendicularly attached to said handle; and
a vertical generally tubular metal slide and a diagonal generally tubular metal slide that are in movable contact with said neck, said strings and said frets that are perpendicularly attached to said handle by said support rods at a fixed angle forming said device.
2. The device according to claim 1 , wherein said proximal ends of rods are weldedly attached to said handle.
3. The device according to claim 1 , wherein said distal ends of rods are weldedly attached to said vertical slide and said diagonal slide.
4. The device according to claim 1 , wherein said fixed angle is approximately 56 degrees.
5. The device according to claim 1 , wherein said device allows said user to play standard and open tuning music without having to retune said guitar.
6. The device according to claim 1 , wherein said device serves said user as a built-in guide to achieve a more accurate and higher melody range than without said device.
7. the device according to claim 1 , wherein said device can play a vertical angle chord shape and a diagonal angle chord shape.
8. The device according to claim 7 , wherein said device can morph said vertical angle chord shape into said diagonal chord shape while keeping a fulltime sustain of chords being played.
9. The device according to claim 1 , wherein said device does standard tuning and open tuning.
10. The device according to claim 1 , wherein said user can move said device in any angular direction.
11. The device according to claim 1 , wherein said user can perform hammer-ons, trills, sliding hammer-ons and trills, simultaneously lengthen and shorten an interval between two or more notes being played and play a major chord, a minor chord, a major seventh chord and other chord forms.
12. The device according to claim 1 , wherein said vertical slide and said diagonal slide can be interchangeably used while said user is using said device.
13. The device according to claim 1 , wherein said device allows said user to play higher in pitch and position on said strings and maintain pitch and tuning better than a regular slide.
14. The device according to claim 1 , wherein said device, said tubular handle, said support rods, said vertical tubular slide and said diagonal tubular slide are made of glass.
15. A method of using a sliding chord producing device for a user playing a guitar with a neck, a plurality of strings and a plurality of frets with a vertical slide and a diagonal slide bar, comprising the steps of:
moving said device that includes playing two types of chord shapes, one said shape being at a vertical angle and one said shape being at a diagonal angle and performing hammer-ons, trills, sliding hammer-ons and trills and simultaneously lengthen and shorten an interval between two or more notes being played.
16. The method according to claim 15 , wherein said moving said device includes morphing said vertical angle chord shape into said diagonal chord shape while keeping a fulltime sustain of chords being played.
17. The method according to claim 15 , wherein said moving said device includes playing more chords and more than one said fret at a time with said device and playing a major chord, a minor chord, a major seventh chord and other chord forms.
18. The method according to claim 15 , wherein said moving said device includes allowing said user to play standard and open tuning music without having to retune said guitar and moving said device in any angular direction.