I thought I posted this the other day but I quess I'm losing my mind.
What exactly does this mean /13 ?
Is it some kind of slide? How do you execute it?
Chris
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Since it is just one string and one fret it can't be a slide unless there is a fretted note on the same string before it.
If not and it is the only note on the string then it is probably a bend.
I'd regard it as a slide up to the 13th fret and back down, with undefined starting and ending points. (Yeah, I do that.)
:P
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It looks like it means to slide in and then out of the note.
Yup, quite a common way to start and end a lick. This is just a one-note lick. :D
I have been seeing this type of thing quite often. Even more often are slide ups with un defined begining note.
My question is where do you start and end?
Example /7 any string where do I start my slide? or does it matter?
It looks like it means to slide in and then out of the note.
Yeah its means that. And all done in one pick
On those undefined slides I just assume it goes up or down most of the fretboard from the and call it good. If it's down from an undefined point I start at a spot that'll fit the rhythym.
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It doesn't matter where you start. The reason it doesn't matter if because whatever note that you start at is a "grace" note. Which means that it doesn't sound out long enough to matter.
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Thanks guys I kind of thought that, but I wasn't sure.
"It's all about stickin it to the man!"
It's a long way to the top if you want to rock n roll!
normally on slides it should give you a place to start the slide. Slides do sound different on where you start them.
normally on slides it should give you a place to start the slide. Slides do sound different on where you start them.
I'm guessing, but. the way he showed the /13 on the tab. It'd probably be a fast one, I just did it and there's not really a way to tell where it starts or ends, all you can really tell is that it reached a peak at the 13th fret.
Now maybe if it was a slow slide, it would make more sense to show where the slide should start and end..
Do you know what I mean?
The '/' symbol means 'Slide into from below'
and the '' symbole means 'Slide out of downwards'
Welp, ...there ya go :)
later!
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I am reading in a instruction book about indefinite slides and it says:
on a slide up, begin a few frets below the final note. start with a little pressure on the string but not enough to press it down on the fret.then as you slide toward the final note gradually increase pressure so that when you reach the final note it sounds clear.
slide down is the reverse with the exception ( and don't ask me why) that it should be at least 5 frets.
Again this is from a guitar instruction book.
That raises the question with me, if you start a indefinite slide up with not enough finger pressure to touch the fret, wouldn't that mute the string too much?
Yes, it would, if you picked too early. What it's trying to say, in more words, is that your hand should be moving in the right direction before you actually play the note. That way it sounds like a slide up from nowhere in particular.
