What Does this Tab symbol mean?

[Carter York]

Hey y'all,

I have gotten some tab recently and in several songs it uses a tab symbol I'm not familiar with.

It is a fret number followed by a period, with an 'arc' connecting the first fret number to another fret number that follows.


---5.--------10-------

with the arc going from 5 to 10. I know it's not a slide, as some occur on other strings from the start note.

Thanks!
Carter

[Colm Chomicky]

My guess is it has to do with the count.

I have some tab from Neil Flanz. In his tab explanation the fret number with the period can be thought of as a dotted guarter note followed by an eight note.

He also has similar tab with two frets connected by an arc. For that example each note gets a 1/2 count, for example two eighth notes.

I am a beginner so take your chances with my guess.

[Nicholas Dedring]

Tab is usually kind of without timing indications. I would guess that it means that slide into the ten, but that you interrupt/block, and don't slide straight up from the five while letting the notes continuously ring. I have some herby wallace material where the

------5
------5

kind of stuff is referred to as "slide up from some indeterminate point"... pick some spot somewhere, and slide up from there.

[Jim Cohen]

Maybe it's just a typo?

[Colm Chomicky]

Until someone beats me over the head with a ball-pein hammer, I'm gonna stick with my first answer as a reasonable punt. (i.e., it is a tab symbol in one of my books, and I hit myself once with the hammer to make sure I was not dreaming)