Guitar tab help!!! arrows on tab???

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Guitar tab help!!! arrows on tab???

hey, im learning 'Highway to Hell' by ACDC n on the lead guitar solo there is a terminology that i dont understand; it is an arrow that leads north over the tab lines and says full on top of the arrowhead, then later on it says 1/2 and shows arrows pointing down. What is this and how do i play it?

Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: This is likely NOT a strum pattern.

It is likely a bend. up meaning you bend the string up (if it says full, then it means until the 'bent' note sounds a full step -two frets - higher than the fretted note unbent; and 1/2 meaning the bent note should sound only one fret higher).

A down bend means to START the note bent (at 1/2= 1 fret; or full=2 frets higher than the note unbent) and release it.

Example - if you see "12" on the tab, with an up arrow and "1/2" near it - you play the note on the 12th fret, and bend it until it SOUNDS like a note on te 13th fret. It sounds like direction of stroke and intensity, are there numbers on the strings like you are holding a cord position when you do these?
It could be muted strum. Tablature is different for everyone there is no standard, what means something on one may mean something else on the other. Is there no Tab key in that book you have?
It does mostly seem to be stroke direction and intensity to me. Without seeing it, I'm only guessing, but I'd guess that it represents a FULL strum (all 6 strings) in an upward direction (usually performed as a slow drag across the strings upward which gives a very definite downward arpeggio effect). The downward arrow with 1/2 represents a strum downward using only 1/2 the strings (which ever three strings actually have fret stops indicated).