Slides

Sliding on the guitar is a technique used to ornament a note, usually by 'sliding' into it. Ornaments are used to spice up your playing. Without ornamenting notes, your playing could sound stale or dead, but by adding ornaments, such as a slide, your playing sound much more interesting overall.

To play a slide, first play a fretted note (no open strings). It does not matter how you play that note. You could pick it or you could hammer on to it, whatever you want. Once you play that note keep your finger fretted on the guitar neck and slide it up to another fret on the same string. DO NOT lift your finger off the guitar neck, simply just slide it across the neck do a different fret. Take the following example.

In tab, a slide up the neck is notated with a '/' and a slide down is notated with a '\'. The above example clearly shows to play the 5th fret on the G string and then slide up to the 7fret. Then later you play the 7th fret and slide back down to the 5th fret.

Remember to always keep your finger on the guitar neck and to not pick into the note that your sliding into. Just pick the first note, and then slide into the second.