This assumes you have chromatic frets like on a guitar. For songs that have minus signs, you can't use the open string as a "zero" fret because the melody includes pitches lower than zero.
For Clementine, pick some fret in the middle of the string and call it your zero fret. Then for "-5" move 5 frets lower than the zero fret. for "4" move to 4 frets higher than the zero fret. etc., etc.
To be honest, I've never seen it done this way (and it won't work if you have dulcimer-style diatonic frets), but all music notation systems are just coded systems for writing down the pitches. I guess one system is as good as another if you can decode it.
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http://didgeridoo4u.com/media/Diddley%20Bow%20Riffs.pdf
Scary selection of titles, but, at least on the tunes I know, they look to be correct.
Nope, not slides. Those are minus signs.
This assumes you have chromatic frets like on a guitar. For songs that have minus signs, you can't use the open string as a "zero" fret because the melody includes pitches lower than zero.
For Clementine, pick some fret in the middle of the string and call it your zero fret. Then for "-5" move 5 frets lower than the zero fret. for "4" move to 4 frets higher than the zero fret. etc., etc.
To be honest, I've never seen it done this way (and it won't work if you have dulcimer-style diatonic frets), but all music notation systems are just coded systems for writing down the pitches. I guess one system is as good as another if you can decode it.
It may mean that you slide to that note. 0 slide to 2 slide to 3. Try that and see if it does any thing for the song.