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2007-01-13 09:17:52 · 8 answers · asked by MzMarquesHouston_225 1 in Education & Reference Quotations

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It is African-American slang for doing something all the way. It comes from the times when slaves stepped over a broom as a sign of marriage. There was no 'half-stepping' over the broom and into marriage it was an all the way commitment and the expression has come down that way

2007-01-13 12:49:19 · answer #1 · answered by Thomas G 6 · 0 0

Half Stepping

2016-12-15 18:32:47 · answer #2 · answered by ? 4 · 0 0

Half Steppin

2016-10-21 09:46:41 · answer #3 · answered by kawamura 4 · 0 0

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It means that rather than having the strings tuned to e, a, g, d, b, and e, they would be tuned to e flat, a flat, g flat, d flat, b flat, and e flat. So yes, you do have to tune each string down a half step. You can check this by matching the pitches with a piano, a tuner, or a pitch pipe.

2016-03-28 22:03:21 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

Means "You gotta commit"

You can't walk anywhere with half-steps, right? You gotta take full steps to walk..

2007-01-13 09:25:48 · answer #5 · answered by MikefromKingston 2 · 1 0

It means tune each string down by one semitone. This is easy to do if you have a chromatic tuner - E would become Eb, B would be Bb, G would be Gb, D would be Db, A would be Ab. Easy really. If you do not have a tuner, then simply tune them down by tuning them relative to each other in the normal way, relying on ear.

2016-03-17 23:47:55 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

no halfstepping means no screwing around just do something with 100 % commitment

2007-01-13 13:41:31 · answer #7 · answered by ShellyBelly 4 · 0 0

yep, no half- steppin means if you aren't going to do it all the way, then don't do it!

2007-01-13 09:47:42 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

in black slang it means not doing something to the full extent.

2007-01-13 09:25:42 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

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