From the course: Acoustic Guitar Lessons: 2 Scales, Walking Bass, Hammer-Ons, and Pull-Offs
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From the course: Acoustic Guitar Lessons: 2 Scales, Walking Bass, Hammer-Ons, and Pull-Offs
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- The final flat picking embellishment that we're gonna cover here is called the slide. And the slide technique is great for lots of things. I use it a lot for connecting different notes up and down the neck. Once again, a lot of these hammer ons, pull offs, they actually allow your right hand a little bit of a rest from the consistent rapid picking. You can use slides, hammer ons, pull offs to not only embellish what you're trying to play but you can also use them for physically connecting things on the finger board. And also, we talked about when you think about consistency of volume of these things, it's an actual useful tool. Sometimes if you're hammer ons and pull offs are synced up you can play things faster than you thought you could because you can start employing some of these things. So, it's all the same with the slide and show you basically what I'm talking about starting from second fret on the G string, (strums G note) slide up to the fourth fret. (slides G note) And…
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