Black MountainBlack Mountain Slide Guitar Rings - Made From Tungsten Steel. Acoustic Guitar Slide, Electric Guitar Slide, Bass, Ukulele, and More. Almost as Hard as Diamond, Smooth Surface Finish, New Invention

I purchased this for my guitar-playing husband. He loves it! He says the sizing is perfect and is easy to use, even with his very large hands. A good-looking, nicely-made slide -- highly recommend!

Playing slide on a bass gives you three things:1) Clean fretless-like slides on fretted basses, and;2) Bow-like vibrato and tone on long droning whole notes, and;3) A new tone to add to your arsenal of tones.I use mine on both fretted and unfretted basses because I've found I get an even cleaner slide on unfretted bass if I use the slide rather than just my finger (I know it may sound crazy, but it's true).Here's why this particular slide is the perfect slide for bass guitarists: Playing slide on a bass guitar is a very different thing than on 6 string guitar.First, we need to be able to quickly transition from slide to fretting. Second, we're grooving rather than soloing and only throwing in the slides as an occasional flourish rather than as our dominant tone. Third, we're typically only playing single notes - or at the most double stops - rather than chords.Full-finger slides tend to "take over" and make it so the ONLY style that you can use while it's on is slide. As a result, a traditional full-finger slide isn't the right choice for us. (trust me I've tried - it sux!)We need something more like a knuckle slide. But there's a problem there too: Most knuckle slides are too wide for the string spacing of most basses and too loose to give us the level of control that we need over our sliding. In addition, ALL traditional slides - be they of ANY length - take out one of our fretting fingers thus inhibiting our ability to fret efficiently.This slide fixes all those problems. Furthermore, the tungsten steel that they use cuts down on string noise on full-wound strings (which is all that I use - I hate flatwounds).Trust me I tried them ALL before I landed on this slide - the rest are a waste of time and money. THIS is the slide that you need if you play bass.I bought three (including the previous generation egg-shaped one) and I use them all.P.S. This slide comes with some great tips on how to slide - read them, they're "gold". Even better is the video that they recommend in those tips, it's superb!

It took a while to get used to it. I like it to add, add some flair to my playing. However, I should emphasize it does take some time to get used to it. I've been using it for around 4 months now, it's still a bit hard to get the exact pressure. But it is extremely fun! It does not replace a regular slide, but it does allow you to do things not possible with any other slide I tried.

When ordering, please read the sizing chart very carefully. I bought this for my ring finger and using the standard ring size. However, the spring seemed to not hold enough pressure, and it would move around. When I asked support if they had anything that could tighten the springs, they informed me that it was meant to be placed on the middle finger. When I tried to add it to my middle finger, it fit much better, but the width was just a bit too wide for me to really use that finger and bend it for playing (when not using the slide).Additionally, I lost 115 pounds since I bought the slide. So now I have to go back and repurchase the smaller size. Well worth the investment.However, it works, and it works great. I love the sound. You do not get the full bar slide sound, but it is not designed for that. You really get to concentrate on specific strings to emphasize the slide with full accompanying sounds.My only suggestion are:Please change the sizing from "small fingers, regular fingers, large fingers" into something more specific. My fingers are small compared to my father, but regular compared to my friends. So it was a toss-up of what size to actually order. Also, for the smaller size, if you could take a millimeter off the width to help the fingers bend, that would be awesome.