Reading tablature

Tom Margulies · Post by **Tom Margulies** » 20 Oct 2022 9:13 am

I'm playing delta blues on an acoustic lap steel. I understand the symbol for sliding up to a note but I see it occasionally before "0". What does this indicate?

Thanks for you time.

C. Eric Banister · Post by **C. Eric Banister** » 21 Oct 2022 6:23 am

Hey Tom, That is an open string. For example, if it said on the first string 2 and then 0, then you would play the 2nd fret and then the open string.

Tom Margulies · Post by **Tom Margulies** » 21 Oct 2022 5:42 pm

The slide symbol precedes the 0. This would imply a slide "up to" the open string. I found this on a Bob Brozeman tab transcribed by John Roberts. So I mystified as to what
/0 means.