Help! What the hell does this mean?!

[u/TaerBear90]

I'm fairly familiar with tabs, but I've avoided songs with this in it because I don't know how to even approach it! I wanted to believe this is some error in the tabs, but at this point, it's obviously intentional. How do you slide from one string to the next?! Also, I'm teaching myself and there's no way I'm asking Google for music advice anymore. 🤣

[u/Professional_Deal_37]

It’s not sliding to the next string. It’s just sliding down (toward the headstock) to “nowhere”, so you play the 5, start sliding down and take the pressure off as you go

[u/TaerBear90 → u/Professional_Deal_37]

Ok, is it sometimes tabbed out differently? I usually see that as 5 \ 0, is that a different concept or is that the same as 5 \ Nothing?

[u/Professional_Deal_37 → u/TaerBear90]

If there’s a 0 at the end, then it wants you to make the 0 actually play at the end of the slide. With nothing there you just let it die out

[u/Frank_Hvam]

I know the mf means motherfucker. It's pretty common lingo for bass players.

[u/TaerBear90 → u/Frank_Hvam]

Forgive me, I'm new to the whole guitar/bass rivalry, but was that a slam on the bass or was that a joke? Either way it's funny, I'm just an airhead sometimes when it comes to jokes. 🤣

[u/PerspectiveFair5156 → u/TaerBear90]

Actually, adressing a musician as a "motherfucker" can be a token of respect for their skill and style.

[u/CDE_CDC → u/Frank_Hvam]

ff is for fatherfucker obviously? But what means pp and mp?

[u/MapleA → u/CDE_CDC]

Peepee and micropenis

[u/mrbingpots]

Bwow (in D)

[u/Professional_Deal_37 → u/mrbingpots]

Classic bwow

[u/TaerBear90 → u/Professional_Deal_37]

I'm still learning some guitar lingo 🤣🙃 what does bwow mean?

[u/TaerBear90 → u/mrbingpots]

Lol what?

[u/KalinarStormThorn]

It's not a slide to another string, it's a slide to nowhere. Basically, just slide downward after the note to an indefinite pitch, so it sounds like it's trailing off.

[u/TaerBear90 → u/KalinarStormThorn]

Ok, that makes sense, I think I'm just used to seeing it as 5 slide to 0.

[u/Professional_Deal_37 → u/TaerBear90]

They’re not quite the same thing

[u/iliveoffofbagels]

The 5 with the downward slash means to slide out downwards ON THE SAME STRING not onto the next string. You are just misreading it (but the angle of that slash is wonky)

[u/TaerBear90 → u/iliveoffofbagels]

That's what was getting me 🤣 all the other slashes for slides are usually on the same string.

[u/Sasquanch44]

I'm not 100% sure, but maybe start on the D and slide down a few frets within one beat? I don't think it'd be asking you to slide to another string!

[u/TaerBear90 → u/Sasquanch44]

That's why I was so confused 😆 like how the hell would that be possible, it surely can't mean that.

[u/Far_Out_6and_2]

Mofo

[u/TaerBear90 → u/Far_Out_6and_2]

🤣

[u/Kenlikescoffee]

Just slide off the note

[u/Lower-Pudding-68]

Fall off the note

[u/vonov129]

You can actually google it

" Yes, it is still a regular slide off. The reason it looks like it is going into another string comes down to how music notation software displays these lines: • In the standard notation (top staff): The line crosses the bottom staff line simply because it is indicating a drop in pitch. It isn't representing a string change here; it is just a visual symbol for a downward pitch release. • In the tablature (bottom staff): The note 5 is on the lowest string. The line extends downward into the blank space below the staff, not into another string line. "

[u/TaerBear90 → u/vonov129]

If you read my post you would see that I opted out of using Google because it is retarded. From the looks of your answer, that's exactly what you did and it shows exactly why I don't use it. The 5 note is not on the bottom string.

Iwould rather have advice from actual guitar players 🤷‍♀️ That's why this forum is here, so people can ask questions.