Last lesson one of the things we looked as was the Van Halen "Summer 
Nights" 
lick:

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|—————————————————|————————————————————————————————————————————————————|
|——————————5—4—0——|—7—4—0——4—7—12—/14—\12——7———————————————————————————|
|—————————————————|————————————————————————————————————————————————————|
                               T  s   s

We're going to start off this time by developing this idea of 
right hand slides.

Start of with a simple one fret slide:
              
|—12—/——13—\—12—————|   
|———————————————————|           
|———————————————————|   
|———————————————————|   

Make sure that you can play this in time, at pretty much any tempo. 
If your no 
carefull this could turn into a sort of reflex action where you 
have little 
control over how long you spend on each note.

Now try sliding two frets:
                            
|—12—/——14—\—12—————|   
|———————————————————|         
|———————————————————|   
|———————————————————|   

The control becomes more important here, as you have to make 
sure that you go 
from the low note to the high note without overshooting, at the 
tempo YOU 
require, not the speed your fingers want to. Sometime you'll 
want the note 
between to be heard in passing, other times you want to move between 
the two 
notes as quickly as possible.

Finally try a minor third:
            
|—12—/——15—\—12—————|   
|———————————————————|        
|———————————————————|   
|———————————————————|   

Once you've got the up slides, try sliding DOWN these intervals:

|—13—\——12—/—13—————|   |—14—\——12—/—14—————|   |—15—\——12—/—15—————|   
|———————————————————|   |———————————————————|   |———————————————————|   
|———————————————————|   |———————————————————|   |———————————————————|   
|———————————————————|   |———————————————————|   |———————————————————|   


Now lets put those slides into a musical context:

This is the bass/rhythm part to Satriani's "Always with me, 
always with you".

|———————————————————|——————————————————|——————————————————|———————————————|
|o——————13/14\13————|——————13/14\13————|——————11/13\11————|—————9/11\9———o|
|o———14——————————14—|———14——————————14—|———11——————————11—|———9————————9—o|
|——7————————————————|—7————————————————|—0————————————————|—2—————————————|

                                                                
|————————————————|——————————————————|—————————————————|———————————————||
|——————9/11\9————|——————11/13\11————|———————9/11\9————|—————8/11\8————||
|————9————————9——|———11——————————11—|————9——————————9—|———9————————9——||
|——4—————————————|—0————————————————|—2———————————————|—2—————————————||

In actuall performance, I probably would only slide the first 
two bars, and 
then use what we've called the right hand 9th position to play 
the rest. 
However the bigger intervals should make good practise :—).


So far I would guess that you've been using your middle (or index) 
finger to do 
most of the work, so go back, and work through the examples using 
each finger 
in turn.

We can now put these multi—digital skills into practise on the 
Stu Hamm riff 
from "Flow My Tears" (Free Radio Albermuth(?sp?)).

|————————11——————————19—|\16—————————————14——————||
|o—————9————17——————————|————14———————12————————o||
|o———7—————————17/19————|———————15\14———————————o||
|——0————————————————————|———————————————————8—7——||
   p ^————^                                 ^—^
    left Hand                              Left

[transcription originaly by George Dibos. I've adapted it 
for Non—Ex—Factor 
Basses — Kubicki Users can drop the piece 1 tone, to return it 
to the original 
key]

The open string is played as a pull of following the repeat — just 
slap it 
(gently!) with your thumb first time around.

I've marked the left hand parts, the rest is played by using three 
fingers of 
your right hand. Use your index finger for the A string, middle 
finger for the 
D string, and third finger for the G string. It's quite easy — 
just make sure 
you place all those sldes cleanly, moving quickly (but NOT rushing) 
between the 
notes with no overshoot.

keep practising...