How to Read Legato Slides on Guitar Tabs

Video Transcript

"BRYAN BILLHIMER: In this next step, we're going to talk about a legato slide. So, let's look at our notation and see what a legato slide looks like in tablature. So we see here that we have two notes. We're going to slide from this note down to this note. And we have a tie here. This is called a tie. So it ties these two notes together. So, we're going to be picking the first note. And then you have the tie that ties it to the second note. And this line right here, going down represents the slide down from the 17th fret to the 15th fret. So, we have the tie that ties the two notes together which basically means you only pick the first note and then we slide down to the 15th fret. So, let's look at what that looks like on guitar. So, a legato slide, we're starting on the 17th fret and sliding down to the 15th fret. And this is going to be one pick. And you kinda want it to be a smooth sound. You have to push down pretty hard. So, you just slide from the 17th fret back to the 15th fret. We can also slide up to note. On a slide up, on a legato slide up, that line that we saw going down from the 17th fret to the 15th fret; say we were going from the 15th fret to the 17th fret, that line would be going up."