Let us talk about some other things that you can do with your scales. Let us start with slides.
There are a couple of different types of slides. There is a quick slide, where you just quickly go from one note to another. In this case, we are going from the second fret on the third string up to the 4th fret, but we are going to do it as one quick motion. (Demonstration) Once again, you are just going (Demonstration).
If you had a slide where you are just going to play over one beat, it would be like (Demonstration) So, when you hit the second note on the slide, some people think you have to pick that note. You do not. It just sounds all by itself, which is the beauty of doing a slide.
There is also what I call a rhythmic slide which is a slower slide, where you are going (Demonstration) like that. So, that would actually work within the framework of a solo, like this. (Demonstration) Let us try a lick using the slide here. Slide lick number one goes like this. (Demonstration)
We have a lot of slides in there, all doing different things. We are sliding up using the 2nd finger. (Demonstration) Let that note ring, and then we are going to end on (Demonstration). First time, we ended on an E down here. The second time, we ended on E up here, which gave the lick a little bit of variety.
Here is slide lick number two. This time, we are going to be using the rhythmic slide. Last time, we used the quick slide. It goes like this. (Demonstration) Once again, nice and slow, make sure that you try to get those slides nice and accurate. (Demonstration)
Here is the same idea. We are going to change things up a little bit. We will call this slide lick 2A, and once again, rhythmic slides. (Demonstration) That time, I used the slide to hit not one, but two notes. I used my finger. Watch this. (Demonstration) It is great; I just picked the string once. I can hit three separate notes, so it saves you time. Once again, it is (Demonstration).
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