Remember the term legato means long, connected notes. Most often, you don't pluck the string again when you reach the end note. When you arrive at the end note of your slide, there are two possibilities: don't pluck the end note, or pluck the end note.

Rhythmically this slide is too short to write as a connecting slide, but the starting note is too defined to write as a simple slide into a note.Īgain, we'll go into grace notes more later. Ī grace note slide is like a really quick connecting slide typically from a note a whole-step or half-step above or below a target note. Grace notes are often played as hammer-ons or pull-offs on the bass, but can also be played with slides. Grace notes are brief notes leading into some main note. Grace Note SlidesĪnother type of slide is a grace note slide. Where you start this slide is left up to you and how long of a slide sound you want.įor this type of slide, to avoid hearing the starting point of the slide you need to be sliding as soon as, or before, you pluck the string. But in this slide you hear the slide and the ending note. Remember, on a connecting slide you clearly hear the starting note, the slide, and the ending note. You don't linger on or emphasize the starting point of the slide. What makes this slide different from a connecting slide is that the starting note is undefined. Leading Slides/Slide InĪnother type of slide slides into a note either from above or below.

But, slides can also help give a bassline more of a 'singing' quality and may connect more melodic notes from the scale. Since slides bring attention to notes, they often lead into strong notes in a bassline like chord tones (roots, 3rds, 5ths). Some slides on bass, like from the fifth to the root, are really popular. The slide might span one note or many-it depends on the bassline. You hear the starting note and the ending note clearly with a slide through the pitches in-between. The most common type of slide connects two distinct notes. Let's look at the different types of slides, then I'll follow with tips to make them sound good. Slides can connect a pair of notes, they can lead into a single note, or follow one. To slide means to glide across or between multiple pitches. The exercises and songs of Slides Part 2 will address other types of slides. On this Slides Part 1 lesson page I'll explain everything about the slides, and the exercises and songs of part 1 will address a certain type of slide. Since there are many types of slides and nuances to them, there will be many exercises and song examples accompanying this lesson. In this lesson we will discuss another common articulation: the slide.

How to do slide in trilian bass