Today, we are doing strumming all day. And someone wrote here, when they are working on tab – now tag or sight reading is pretty much the same. But tag, you are going to have six lines – and the person wrote when you have this—. Well, say that you have a chord here or if it is tab, these are going to be numbers. Let us do two, three, and make this four. I see this and the person says, “What does that mean? It is driving me insane.” So what does this mean guys? All that it is telling you is it is another way of writing music so that you can save hand strokes. So now four, three, two, if I am writing all day or if I am trying to read music, if I am actually performing this and I have to read this, my head is going to blow up. The thing about life in general is always making easier for the next guy. People’s lives are difficult to begin with especially if you are performing music. You are reading the rhythms, you listen to the drummer, you are listening to what is going on, you are working on your guitar, you are doing all these stuff. The last thing that I want to do is have to read all of this. So the way that they do it is they say, “Hey, you know what guys, you do not have to. If it is the same chord, just put the slash in there.” The slash just signifies that you are playing the same chord over and over and over again.
So the way that you play this chord – four, three, two like this. So if I were to play this as a 16th note, it will be C here. The way that you are going to do this four, three, two is you play the 16th notes. So now, hold the fret. The only time you do not hold down the fret or that you do not play the chords or whatever is you go like this. If you want silence, you will simply go one E. If you want to be lifted up on a note, just put the rest in there. This is the 16th at rest. This is 16th that is a slash chord, slash chord and then the actual chord right there. Now, what are this called? I just said it. These are called slash chords. We have these slash chords. It does not matter whether it is treble clef or sight reading or tag, use this. These are called slash chords.
We got another question here and it goes, “There are also same slash chords with no fret juts like an E5 above them.” You got it bro. Okay, another thing that you can do is like this. You might see no note here in a piece of music and you might just see the note or the chord on top. What this is telling you is instead of writing it out like the old way, instead of writing it down as the notes, it is writing it out as the chord. So why look at notes when you can just see the chords and then just rock with it. Now, combine from yesterday’s lesson, if I wanted this to be a palm mute and then just say repeat. So now, all you guys this quick are learning how to read music. And, here we have it. Let us do a palm mute, E5 and then just repeat as eight slurs. Now, if I want to lift up the palm, here is how it goers down. All I did right there was just palm mute on a power chord as eighth notes and then I just repeated it. I am doing a lot of this.
So now, the slashes are the same as the first notes. And, the answer is absolutely. It is the same all the way through only until the person says no. Here we have E5, if I were to write here A5, now what I am doing is this. I am saying E5 here and then on this third note A5. So E5, E5, A5, A5 and that is the only time Bryan that you change again. Now you have this E, A, E, A, E, A. Now the problem that I say to people is that when you are sight-reading, you cannot mistake which note the person is talking about. There is nothing up to assumption. So the problem with this is that if I write E5 here, how do I know – and this is the problem that I have with tab is that when you guys are reading, what is to say there when I write E5 that I am talking about this octave as suppose to this octave? Or if I get technical, how about this octave? So that is the only problem that I have.
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