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Performance Techniques For Acoustic FingerStyle Guitar
Gilbert Isbin |
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This month we're going to look at Hammer-ons
Hammer-On (HO): The right hand plucks the first note and the subsequent notes are played by the left hand.
Using your 4 fingers of the left hand gives 10 combinations on adjacent or non-adjacent strings.
1,2; 1,3; 1,4; 2,3; 2,4; 3,4; 1,2,3; 1,2,4; 1,3,4; 1,2,3,4.
The 4 last combinations are called MULTIPLE HAMMER-ONS, a great way to group notes together and play quickly with less effort.
As we are dealing with fingerstyle playing the hammer-ons might appear as fretted notes only or in combination with open strings in the :
MELODY VOICE
MIDDLE VOICE
BASS
Here are some examples of HO's as
A) SINGLE NOTE LINES
In the MELODY VOICE
a) as fretted notes only .......... measures 1-2
b) as a combination of fretted notes and open strings .......... measures 3-4
c) as a part of a picking pattern .......... measure 5
In the MIDDLE VOICE
Part of a picking pattern .......... measure 6
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