Left Hand - The Banjo Slide
The slide is one of the left hand techniques that gives the banjo its unique sound. Learning to do a slide is easy, you just slide your finger down the fretboard.
The best way to learn is to play, so I’ve included a couple of exercises to get you started.
Exercise one slides from the 2nd fret to the 4th fret on the third string and then jumps into a roll. Use you middle finger for the slide. The S indicates a slide, if I had used an H it would indicate a hammer-on.
to the slide here:
This time we will do a slide on the fourth string from the 2nd fret to the 4th. Again we will use our middle finger.
Hear it played:
Practice these two exercises until you can play them without making mistakes. Make sure and count, 1 and 2 and 3 and 4 and….
When you play this exercise listen for fret buzz, uneven picking, tempo changes and be honest. Slow it down and correct the problem and never worry about it again.
If you do a slide that is only one fret, it sounds the same as a hammer-on. Banjo slides rarely go to a lower note, they all seem to slide up.
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