From the course: Acoustic Guitar Lessons: Intermediate
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From the course: Acoustic Guitar Lessons: Intermediate
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- Alright, let's go over sliding now, and this is a very important technique to know for guitar. There's a lot of different ways that you can do it, and it's important to have a lot of accuracy and a good sense of how to slide and keep the pressure down. So let's cover two different topics on that. The first thing is a grace note slide. And that would be where you just slide really quick into a note, sort of as just like an ornament or a way of sort of dressing up a melody. You can just go... (guitar strumming) So there I was sliding between all different fingers, and generally it was just going into the note really quick from either a note below or from a note above. Just make sure to look at the fret that you're intending to end on, and make sure that destination is really precise. Next let's check out another concept called a portamento slide. And here, it's going to be a very distinct note rhythm before and after, so for instance, let's check out this example that uses either half…
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