While working on blues music I am running into a lot of slides with a slash in front ot the note without a starting note. Example: /10
Where do I start the slide from? Do I pick the open string then try to slide? (This sounded terrible)...
Thanks
If it is in front of the fret, you slide from anywhere you want into the note.
If it is after the fret, you slide after the note is picked.
/ = up the neck
= down the neck
So yeah, anywhere you want. Do you want a short slide or a long slide, it depends on the sound you are after.
Mike
Edit-
Sorry, in your case, pick a fret and slide up to the 10
Thanks mike...
Now I'll just have to figure out what sounds best.
usually one slides two frets. its pretty standard..and perhaps too common. long or short slides have thier place.
/10 start on fret eight. it'll sound right.
Mike, what setting on your v-amp do you use for blues?
Roy
"I wonder if a composer ever intentionally composed a piece that was physically impossible to play and stuck it away to be found years later after his death, knowing it would forever drive perfectionist musicians crazy." - George Carlin
My teacher always said that it doesnt matter much where you start from but it matters alot where you stop. The ear just hears the slide and focuses on that final note.
Slide away
GEoo
“The hardest thing in life is to know which bridge to cross and which to burn” - David Russell (Scottish classical Guitarist. b.1942)
This is what I was trying to play...just a blues intro most of you probably know already...
e--------4---------------3-------------------2--------
B--------------------------------------------------------
G---/4------4-----3------------3-----2-------------2---
D---------------------------------------------------------------------
A---------------------------------------------------------------0----1----2---
E-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
The first "4" was the one in question. I started at the second fret and slid to the 4th and it sounded just like the recording...
rparker...
I'll PM you the settings when I get home. I use a couble different ones depending what I am playing.
