Yes, kind of.
That 10th fret of the D string is hit, and you are immediately sliding (keeping just enough pressure to keep the note from dying) to that low Bb.
And you give up on the slide somewhere around the 7th fret, and then you’re just jumping.
It doesn’t have to be a continuous slide that goes through every note.
You just need enough of a slide to get that awesome feeling of dropping into a low note.
You can ditch out of the slide as soon as you have created that slide feeling (usually after just a few frets) and then you have to get to the next note.
No matter what happens, the slide is unimportant next to the massive uncompromising necessity of hitting the next note in rhythm.
The slide is insignificant next to the power of the force.
I mean, the downbeat.
thank you, that is excellent advise, especially because I skipped the slide so far, don’t even know why. However, my question was about going up from the 1st fret on the A-string to the 10th on D one bar earlier. There are only eighth notes there, and there is also a slide, that I skipped so far.
For that little slide into the 10th fret:
When you see that notation, the curled like (rather than a longer, straight line connecting two notes) it means you don’t need to slide all the way.
You’re just scooping into the note.
So that 10th fret is just being slid into from the fret below it.
To practice it (since there isn’t enough time to prepare for it or get in position) I’d forget about that scoop entirely, and focus on just getting from that 1st fret on the A string and landing on the 10th of the D (or at least in the neighborhood).
If you miss a note, fine, just try and stay in rhythm and get back on track as soon as you can.
If you get good at the instantaneous shift from that low note to the high one, you can do a slight adjustment to slide into it rather than jumping right to it.
But the little slide/scoop articulation is a bonus-feature-cherry-on-top of the bass line.
The real challenge is that huge position change, and staying in rhythm.
Song number 50!! Feels good to be done and to wrap up with such a fun one to play. I’m thankful to everyone who organized and participated in the challenge, it really made it feel like a community thing (even though it’s 4 years later).
To anyone looking at the challenge and thinking “I can’t do that”, I was in that boat too. Just go for it
