Now for a slide down: on the G string put your 3rd finger on the 5th fret pluck the note and then slide down to the third fret. Made sure to do it smoothly and don?t pluck the note once you arrive at the 3rd fret.

If you combine the slide up and slid down you get cool legato sliding effect. Try this combo using the b string and your 3rd fret. Pluck the note at the 5th fret slide to the 7th fret then slide back to the 5th fret. Pluck again and slide up to the 7th fret, hold the note a bit and then slide up to the 11th fret. Then pluck at the 11th and slid down to the 9th. Cool!

Try sliding a chord, a power chord for example. In this tab form a C5 chord and slide up to the D5 Chord. This is done a lot in modern rock songs.

Sometimes you may want to pick a note and just slide it down until it fades out. In this example just pluck the note on the 9th fret of the A string and then slide down with no end spot. This is done to added color and a fade sound to your playing. You can also reverse this and do a slide up.

Now is the best part. Practice doing all kinds of slides you don?t need any book or rules, just make things up that sound cool to you. Practice combining all the legato techniques along with muting and you?ll be ready to start rocking in no time.

Bill McRea is the publisher of http://www.guitarwarehouse.com/blog/ and http://www.kansasfans.com. Bill has owned his own music store and tough guitar for many year.