Slide & Reading Guitar Tab

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MICHAEL PLUNKETT: Hello. This is Michael Plunkett on behalf of Expert Village. The next topic we're going to look at is what we call a slide on a guitar. It's basically where we take our fingers or pressed down on a string. We plucked the string and then we quickly bring our fingers up or down to another fret. So, it might sound something like this. There are four different types of ways that we use slides on the guitar. You might see it notated like this. Now, in this case, they use a slash, a forward slash to indicate that we're going to slide from the 5th fret and we're going to slide up to the 7th fret. That was actually the first example I showed you. Start on the 5th fret, we press down, we pluck it on the 5th and then we quickly slide up to the 7th, so it would sound like. Now, another thing that you actually might see commonly is just a forward slash up to any given fret in this case is 7th again meaning that there's not really a particular starting place or note that they want you to hear before that, but just that you want to end up on the 7th. So, I could really start anywhere and just kinda make sure I end up on the 7th. So, you kinda hear just that kind of like coming up to it sound. There's not really a particular starting note though. And then the other way that you might see it is a back slash and that's telling us that we're going to slide down, so in this case 7 down to 5. And then, of course, a back slash without a number in front of it indicating that we don't know exactly where we're starting but we're going to end up there at the 5, and we just really want to hear that resolution at the end. So usually, I'll just come up kind of fine just. You just want to make sure you can hear that at the end. So, that's 5 to 7, and here's just coming up to 7, and then just down to 5 from unspecified. So, four basic types of sliding that you'll see in guitar tablature.

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