This is something that I discovered on my acoustic guitar just a little while ago while sliding my finger down the fret board.

If you do it just right, you can actually "walk the sound" down the frets by "surfing" the vibrations, which means the sound continues without strumming the strings. According to my Dad this is a technique for playing the " blues" and "electric" style of rock music.  This is rather sort of difficult to do as you have to get it just right, not to mention the fluid filled pocket on my index finger from practicing for more than an hour ... :/  

So does anyone know the correct term for this technique ?

slide....

So it's called just sliding ? ... Well to be honest I like strumming on an acoustic guitar better than using riffs and licks (I think that's what you call those rock n roll guitar techniques right ?)because I think I'm more into song writing... This doesn't mean I don't want to rock out on an electric guitar though ... :/ Thanks though SkyBlue1 Lol

Developing a blister?
Alison

I stand corrected, LOL

Should I just pop it open ? It's pretty damn huge!......

Legato techniques?

You can use hammer-ons and pulloffs or slides to produce sound without ever plucking/strumming at all.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legato

Actually this is a Guitar Slide but that wasn't what I was talking about, except of sliding down three frets quickly like the guy was doing in the video, I was sliding down the fret slowly and sort of surfing the vibrations to walk the sound down to the bottom last fret ....

That is still a slide, no matter how many frets you cover.

If you use one of these, you can get a smoother slide. Very common in blues and rock. It's somewhat more difficult, because you can't really do much in the way of chords without using an alternate tuning.

That'd probably save me from getting blisters on my fingers if I had a couple of those ... My dad believes in practicing on an acoustic guitar before moving unto electric because you build up calises and I guess that builds up endurance or something like that ...

When I used to play, I found that my electric was harder on my fingers than an accoustic. Maybe he has something there.

I'd still learn the fundamentals before you start playing slide guitar, unless you plan on doing exclusively that. Some of the big names, like Bonnie Raitt, Muddy Waters, and Elmore James, have done that.

I already know all the basic notes so all that's left to do is to learn rhythm ... I want to learn to properly switch between notes because I still have that "beginners" lag sometimes. The only problem is that the guitar I'm practicing on has a warped neck and is a little loose at the base of the neck and the only way to play a note properly on the guitar is to use bar notes in E which I'm having a load of trouble doing because I can't seem to keep my fingers in the right position ....  :/

Well according to my dad, I come from a long line of guitar players on his side of the family so why not keep up the tradition ?

That's a different kind of "slide" from the technique - personally I call the device a bottleneck and the technique a slide to make things clear. The technique is where you literally just slide your finger from one fret to the other and it's very important if you want to get a smooth sound while playing lead.

Rock and blues solos are pretty much impossible without using the technique, but the device (the bottleneck) is mainly used for blues. It's also used by nutters like me in black metal, but that's a different subject.......

As for the blisters, this is normal for beginning players - your skin will harden with practice. I would recommend that you get a different guitar too, even a cheap and crappy one would be better so you can learn proper technique - otherwise you'll get used to playing on a broken guitar and be unable to play on others.