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Posted by: Niko Fran Aug 6 2008, 12:09 AM

Often when I read tabs, I find these Ls in the tabs. What are they!? What do they want from me!?

Thanks for responds

Posted by: JeroenKole Aug 6 2008, 12:11 AM

They are there to take over the world!!!

Good question though, I'm not very sure about it myself

Posted by: Caelumamittendum Aug 6 2008, 12:11 AM

Legato slides, I believe

You slide from one note to the other note, but you do not pick the second note.

Posted by: Bogdan Radovic Aug 6 2008, 12:13 AM

It would be a tied note

Here is the complete list :

Tablature Legend
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L - tied note
x - dead note
g - grace note
(n) - ghost note
> - accentuded note
NH - natural harmonic
AH - artificial harmonic
TH - tapped harmonic
SH - semi harmonic
PH - pitch harmonic
h - hammer on
p - pull off
b - bend
br - bendRelease
pb - preBend
pbr - preBendRelease
brb - bendReleaseBend
\n/ - tremolo bar dip
\n - tremolo bar dive
-/n - tremolo bar Release up
/n\ - tremolo bar inverted dip
/n - tremolo bar return
-\n - tremolo bar Release down
S - shift slide
s - legato slide
/ - slide into from below or out of upwards
\ - slide into from above or out of downwards
~ - vibrato
W - wide vibrato
tr - trill
TP - tremolo picking
T - tapping
S - slap
P - pop
< - fade in
^ - brush up
v - brush down

Posted by: Caelumamittendum Aug 6 2008, 12:17 AM

I failed then!

Posted by: Niko Fran Aug 6 2008, 12:18 AM

I found that list in Andrews teory lessons my self, but then I was like (whats a tied note?) As I remember they can be found in Dejans Raindrops lesson and in Gabriels reggeae lesson...

And whats a legato slide xD?
I'm not very familiar with all those terms

Posted by: Bogdan Radovic Aug 6 2008, 12:18 AM

Don't worry it was a good a logical shoot

Posted by: Daniel Robinson Aug 6 2008, 02:06 AM

A tied note has to do with rhythmic value of the note. Typically music is broken down as such.

Whole note
Half note
Quarter note
8th note
16th note
32nd note
64th note

When you see a tied note it just means the note value is lengthend by another value. For example if you "Tie" a Half note to a quarter note that means the note length would have a value of 3 beats and it is not a separate note. So you would hit this note and it would ring for 3 beats. Generally speaking though tied notes are either usually really long or really short to get fractions of a beat. You typically wouldnt see a tied half note and quarter note in 4/4 time signature.

Normally in this circumstance you will have a dotted note. When you add a dot to a note the dot denotes half the value of the note that is dotted. So if you have a dotted half note, a half note has 2 counts and the dot adds 1 count to the beat because 1 is half of 2. So a dotted half note has 3 beats in 4/4 time signature.

A legato slide means that you slide up, or down but the location you do the slide from is a hammer on or pull off and not a picked note.

Hope i explained that well enough.

Daniel

Posted by: Caelumamittendum Aug 6 2008, 11:38 AM

Not sure the first note is a hammer on or pull off. Could be a picked note, but the location you slide to is not to be picked. Explained with video by someone here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z5JRcPG9dj8&NR=1

Posted by: Muris Varajic Aug 6 2008, 12:03 PM

Yeah,so shift slide is probably when you pick
both notes but you slide in order in shift position of the left hand.
Those 2 slide types are always confusing me kind off,
not sure which name represents what.

Posted by: Caelumamittendum Aug 6 2008, 12:08 PM

Yes, I believe shift slide is the slide between two positions on the neck, but playing both notes.

I think I learned the many terms and ways to play by fooling around with Guitar Pro. Then you can kinda hear what it is supposed to be (i.e. legato slide from 17th fret to 15th fret) and try and emulate that

Posted by: Muris Varajic Aug 6 2008, 12:11 PM

Oh yeah,I listened through GP a lot as well
but somehow it sounds wrong here and there,
per example legato sounds like played with hammer, a real hammer.

Posted by: Caelumamittendum Aug 6 2008, 12:12 PM

Ahaha. I have never played my guitar with a hammer! You have?!

But yes, you are right, some things are severely off, but I at least managed to get the impression that it was only the first note being played and the second coming from the slide to the note.

Posted by: Muris Varajic Aug 6 2008, 12:14 PM

No I haven't but it might sound just like that,give it a try

Posted by: Caelumamittendum Aug 6 2008, 12:16 PM

So you want me to use the hammer as the pick or as a fretting tool?

Posted by: Muris Varajic Aug 6 2008, 12:20 PM

Fretting tool,it's legato after all

Posted by: Caelumamittendum Aug 6 2008, 12:23 PM

Sure, I'll look into it!

Posted by: Daniel Robinson Aug 6 2008, 07:00 PM

Quite right, thanks for the correction. The problem i think stems from the fact that most TAB writers don't notate this properly, and hence the confusion. Almost all the time they notate both Legato slide and Shift slide with the same shift slide notation.

Thanks for the clarification though!

Daniel

Posted by: Ivan Milenkovic Aug 6 2008, 07:58 PM

I think it would be wise to use GP legend and have it by default in complete tabs. After all we are using Guitar Pro software - why not using it's legend as well ?

Posted by: Caelumamittendum Aug 7 2008, 08:46 PM

No problem. Feels good to be able to correct an instructor!



Indeed, that would be wise!

Posted by: Niko Fran Aug 9 2008, 12:18 AM

Thanks for the answers, but i have a tab where its like

E:----L-----

Does this mean i should play the last note again, just tied? I would understand if the tab looked more like E:--3L---

Actully I've once used a butterfly knife as a slide, close enough ?

Posted by: Ivan Milenkovic Aug 9 2008, 12:19 AM

Yes it means you should play this L with a last note tied. It represents the same tied note of the previous one.

Posted by: Niko Fran Aug 9 2008, 12:20 AM

Great, I understand now, thanks Ivan

Posted by: Ivan Milenkovic Aug 9 2008, 12:22 AM

No problem man here to help.

Also in GP sometimes that L goes into the next line by itself and stays alone so to speak, so that may cause some confusion.
In the future lessons there will be GP legend in complete tab so yo can check it out as well.