It'll help your fingerpicking. If you've had difficulty learning fingerpicking, slide is a great way to help you focus on it. You can play slide guitar in any tuning and with any type of pick, but using an open tuning and your fingers will help you get the feel for syncopated bass and melody fingerstyle more easily.

What does a slide guitar do?

Slide guitar, also called bottleneck guitar, a technique and style of guitar playing, whereby a hard object, typically a steel tube, a steel bar, or a glass bottleneck, is pressed across multiple strings and slid along the fingerboard to produce a smooth, whining sound that is in some ways evocative of the human voice.

Is it easier to play slide guitar?

Conclusion. Playing with a slide is as hard or as easy as you want it to be. If you're an experienced guitarist, you'll quickly catch the basics. The hardest parts are working out how hard you need to press with the slide, and remembering to play the notes directly on the fret, which can be confusing at first.