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Kenny Brown · From: Auburn, Alabama, USA

Next question: When reading tabs that look like this:

-----9-----
-----8-----

Does that mean I need to have my bar slanted to cover the 8th and 9th while striking both notes?

George Rout · From: St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada

Sure does, and if the 8 was over the 9, it's called a "reverse slant".
Geo

Kenny Brown · From: Auburn, Alabama, USA

Thanks George. I appreciate everyone bearing with me while I'm starting up. I know some questions should seem obvious, but I've never paid much attention to any tabs unless I really wanted to play what was written.

Now getting to the heart of my instrument--Single coil pickup. Good/bad? Too loud? What makes the difference?

Any info is welcomed as always.

C Dixon · From: Duluth, GA USA

And if you saw a tab where you had two identical numbers; one atop the other; and a third number that was either lower or higher than the two indentical numbers; it would mean you need to use a "split slant"

In other words, the round nose of the bar is used to keep the top two strings straight while the 3rd (bottom) note is slanted right or "reversed"

Jerry Byrd is credited with inventing this incredible "impossibility"

and it is NOT easy to execute without mucho pratice. But once mastered, it brings the non-pedal guitar into the world of myriads of chords; which at first glance might seem to be truly impossible.

"For with God, all things are possible",

carl

George Keoki Lake · From: Edmonton, AB., Canada

Just a couple of tips...You should always focus your bar DIRECTLY over the fret. If you can see the fret, you are not on it. (Of course, vibrato comes into play.) Intonation is so important. Jerry once told me that, when making a slant, if you THINK it is tune, push the bar with thumb a bit further back on the bar and it WILL be in tune.

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