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Beginner Guitar Lesson – Hammer-Ons/Slurs

In Beginner Guitar Lessons | on December, 14, 2009 | by | 3 Comments

This lesson focuses on the fret hand technique of hammer-ons. It is basically the technique of playing notes on the guitar with the fret hand only.

The sound created by performing this technique accurately is very smooth and legato and helps create a completely different sound than the percussive sound of picking each note.

Make sure you watch the hand and finger positions closely in the video, and keep your fret hand fingers arched and relaxed.

Try to keep your fret hand wrist as straight as you can while keeping it relaxed. You don’t want any tension to develop when practicing this exercise.

Here is the PDF download for this lesson.

Beginner Hammer-On Exercise PDF

Tomorrow we will work on the completely opposite technique of pull-offs. See You Then!!

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Hammer-Ons/Slurs

3 Responses

12.14.09

thanks for all of your tutorial…but can you please arrange your lessons by the date you post it….i am having trouble with it…..thanks again!!!:)

12.14.09

Thanks Carl,..i whas doing this so wrong,with a lot of tension!!!

12.14.09

In some ways didactics are a kind of art. Their tools are love to the subject and patience. I think that you really can work with both of them… thanks from germany!

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