First, great book. I bought at start of covid and just left it lying around. My guitar playing did not improve – at least not in regard to pentatonic fluency. Opened it last week and have been hitting it ever since and I can already tell a difference. It has been especially helpful in getting me to actually pay attention to what note is what. I finally can pick out every A, for example. I plan on writing an Amazon review as well. Good stuff, just have to do it!
Anyway, kind of loath to ask this but couldn’t find it in other questions and, well… on exercise 3, for example, we have to angled lines between 5-3 (E-D) and 5-7 (C-D). These are slides, obviously. But there is a curved line beteen 5-3. Is that a slide or pulloff? I don’t see a pull mentioned in description, unless I’m missing it.
Then in exercise 4 we have the curve over 5-8-5. I’m listening and can’t tell if that’s a pull and hammer.
I know I can do it either way, but just wondering intent so I can nail it.
Thanks,
Hi Tim. Please don’t ever be loathed to ask.
I didn’t even realise until you’ve mentioned it, there’s normally a s, p or h over those on top of the TAB – I’ll have to watch out for that.
You’ve got everything right. The angled line is a slide.
The curve is either a hammer or a pull-off, depending which direction, i.e., hammer going up in pitch, pull-off going down.
The curve over three frets is a legato hammer / pull-off. i.e., Pick fret 5, pull off to 8 and then hammer back onto 5 – you only pick the first note of the three. To be honest, it doesn’t matter how you play it, that’s just what i did in the examples – you could pick all notes or just two, whatever.
I’m currently looking into using Soundslice. If I can figure out a way to create a private area on the Soundslice site for my book readers only, then this is going to be a great place to put all the TABs – perfect for practising.
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