From the course: Acoustic Guitar Lessons: 2 Scales, Walking Bass, Hammer-Ons, and Pull-Offs
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Beginning hammer-ons
From the course: Acoustic Guitar Lessons: 2 Scales, Walking Bass, Hammer-Ons, and Pull-Offs
Beginning hammer-ons
- We're gonna jump now right into what I feel are key elements of what really defines flat picking as a style onto itself, and certainly defines the way I play, and things that I think are important, and key things that I work on all the time and continue to try to improve. We've talked about different picking patterns, and we've talked about different ways to think about the pick, and the rest stroke, and all that kinda stuff. This is gonna move into more left-hand techniques, if you will. When you hear a lot of flat pickers, and you hear the rapid fire of notes, the cascade of notes, there's a lot of fast picking going on that defines, but as, the left hand is working as equally as much as the right hand, especially in my approach to the style. The first thing we'll work on is what's called hammer-ons. The reason it's called a hammer-on is that you're literally, you're not playing a note, you're playing a note, and then the note after that subsequent note is hammered on with a left…
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