What does this mean... (image included)

I'm pretty much a newbie to TAB and as far as i know this thing i circled on the image is suppossed to be a slide, but how on earth does one slide from a string below.. So i guess it means something else.

What does the thing mean which i circled on this image...

thanks :mrgreen:

http://i39.tinypic.com/1f8vgh.png

I would play the open note on the third string then slide into the fretted note on the fifth string.

I'm guessing it's a slide down to C on the A string. Slides can be between two notes (like a slur) or an effect on one note (sliding up or down into a note). When it's an effect it doesn't really matter where you start because you only want to hear the pitch you're sliding into.

yea, it doesn't mean slide from the previous note, but rather, slide into the current note. whether you slide from 1, 2 or more frets away is up to you depends on what sounds best.

Thanks :mrgreen: That cleared up some stuff lol

Yes, look at the 5th string: you should still be fretting it at the 5th fret, so it's a slide from the 5th to the 3rd fret.

+1 with Big Daddy. and...if I had been writing it out I would have a 'hold count' written above the 5th fret, 5th string D note.,....or have another 5th fret D not with that open G string aand then notate the slide down to the C from that. I woul dbe handy to have some time measurement and a bar in there, right? The tab I grew up with had some kind of rhythm/note duration notations.