Weird thing-a-ma-bob

[unfy]

I got some sheets from the jazz band director, and I ran into a weird notation doo-hickey. Here's a crude drawing of it.

-|---|----|---
-|---|----|---
-|---|----|---
-|---|---o----
o---/---------

I'm not sure if anyone can decipher that, so I'll explain. In a hypothetical situation, there's a half note, the weird slash-attached-to-a-stem thingy, and another half note. What is this slash thingy? It is some kind of slide? If so, why isn't it written as a slur?

[toast]

Took me a while of looking at it in different ways. Thought the bars were measures, but they're the stem of the note.
To me, it looks like either a mute or a rhythm slash, but I'm not sure...

[unfy]

The guitar player who sabotaged last year's tryout told me it's an 'open note,' which means I can play anything I want. Learning from the whole, 'Ignore the notes in the staff. He just wants you to play the chords over the measure' fiasco, I discredited his claim. Though, a percussive click is probably what that thingy is.

[13noon]

a "click" is usually an "x" with a stem. i would say that it's a rhythm slash, but i'd have to see it. does it have a chord written above? because it might be note-chord-note.

[unfy]

If I could scan it and post a link, I would.

There isn't a chord above. On the actual sheet, It's an eighth note barred to that slashy thing, which is a sixteenth note barred to another sixteenth note that is tied to another note of the same pitch.

That slashy thing is a noodle scratcher.

[jaytee]

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unfy i wondered if you ever found out what this was....
cuz i have come across another weird notation and i wonder if they are the same
the one i have seen looks alot like a percent sign...and it just means to repeat the measure before it