What does 1/2 in tabs mean?

I was playing ya ali when i came across things like 1/2/3/2/1. What does this mean? Thanks a lot

 

1/2 means you've to slide yo finger from 1st fret to the 2nd ..

Thought this sequence which you provided -> 1/2/3/2/1
is unusual.

 

You can only slide once and let the sound sustain...the sequence which u have provided 1/2/3/2/1 is wierd and not possible as far as i know.

 

yes..uL always come around this while reading/playing tabs

he has just tried to give an illustration/example..hehe

 

hey
you said 1/2/3/2/1 was unusual and another person said it was impossible. But, ya ali tabs(search in this to find the song on this website) have this freq. in them

 

Code:

E----------------------------------------------------------------
B---1/2/3/2/1-0---4/5-7-5---------------------------------------
G---------------2---------4-4-5/6/7/6/5--2-4--------------------
D----------------------------------------------------------------
A----------------------------------------------------------------
E----------------------------------------------------------------
Ya Ali, yaar pe qurbaan hai sabhi.

Ya i too checked out these..What i interpret is that u need to slide ur finger from first fret to third fret and return back to first fret..thats how i use to play...though the significance of the second fret is not obvious to me

 

I think what 1/2/3/1 means is:

Pick teh 1,
slide to 2,
sutain teh note for a while,
slide to 3,
sustain that note for a while,
slide back to 1,
(needless to say - sustain that also for a while)

Actually it is similar to playing 1-2-3-1, but the essence is to get a soft tone (no picking attack), hence use slides.

This is similar to legato technique, where you are supposed to only hammer and pull-off.

 

Just because something is posted here(or anywhere else for that matter) doesn't mean it can't be unusual or impossible.

 

^^^was goin to post the chame

 

hi friend

ofcourse this is a slide sequence , but its annotated in wrong way

the write way would be 1/2/3\2\1 which is very common notation.
/ represent forward slide from 1st note to second note
\ represent backward slide from 3rd note to second note
becuase u cannot slide from 3rd note to 2nd note in forward direction.

 

Now this is what i call observation

 

Who would be an Idiot to think that 3/2 is a forward slide? Its understood that its a backward slide, doesn't matter if you use "/" or "\".

 

^ :RollLol:

Trve!

 

Thanks guys for ur reply. Helped a lot.

 

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