Hi justin here again
This is part 2 of the speed development
And what we are gonna look up now is hammer on and flickoffs
something you might be familiar with this already.
But Im gonna pretend you dont know what hammer on and flickoffs are
So, the idea of the hammerons is to play one note
and then hammer the finger down very hard further up the string
So , it creates the second note without having to pick it
So, if i play this first note g using that 3 note string scale
without using this hand
I can hammer the note down and you can hear that just by hammering the finger down really hard
I can get that second note
Thats a hammer on!! and its really important that you "hammer it on"
Yeah? Thats the whole point. If you just press on you dont get a very clear note
The other thing that we are gonna look at today is flickoff
Now sometimes it is called a pulloff, but i think it is more of a flicking action
So, flick off is exactly the reverse of a hammer on.
So if we start with those three fingers down and play this note with our little finger
And then flick off the little finger. To release the note onto the second finger
And flick off your second finger and then leave the note onto your first finger
So, Thats the two techniques that we are gonna be covering
What we r gonna do is be playing the scale up and down using these techniques.
We are gonna focus just on the hammer ons first and just at pulloffs and then next, we take then togethar
So, lets get to a close up now and then I will take you through doing the scale
Ok, so here we are with the G major scale
Starting off: we are gonna be looking at hammer ons
Make sure your fingers are roughly in the right positions already
You're gonna pick the first note
Then hammer the next note down with your second finger
Then next one with your little finger
Now we are gonna keep playing the scale now just to get the technique concept
Pick, Hammer hammer, pick,hammer hammer, pick,hammer hammer, pick hammer hammer
Hopefully you can see that the action of hammering is quite really hammering it down really hard
as you can. The idea is to try and get the second two notes, The notes that you hammered on to be around the same volume as the first note
You should be able to achieve that. Do that sometimes by picking a little less hard and sometimes by hammering hard (ADVICE) .
Thats the two options you have got to even it up,
So, what i'd recommend that you practice now is doing each string four times before you move on
And doing hammer ons as well on the way back down
So you do this
Once you have got that fast, May be move it to two
If you wanna just have a mock around one time on each string , you can go.
(Chuckles) that kinda thing!!
That kinda exercise going on
Now we are going to look at flick offs
So in flickoffs we have little finger and all three fingers rougly in positions first
(Pick,flick flick)*6
Make sure you get the flicking motion
Now try and do the four on each one . The same that we did for hammerons
And you do twos again
And if you wanna do..Then..
Just mocking around with it!!
hey, Hope that you all got that cool.
Remember that one of the keys to playing fast is by playing slow ( A GREAT ADVICE)
So,Please when you are starting to do those hammer on and pulloffs try and do it really slowly.
The coolest thing about the fastest guy ,about full on dead metal guitar players is if you slow down their stuff using half speed
Or slowing down machine..
EVERY NOTE IS ABSOLUTELY PERFECTLY CLEAN
Do not try and learn with your fingers wiggling around really fast
without the notes sounding clear coz that will just sound shite
Make sure you keep each note 100% clear
If it is not clear ,if you are doing it too fast, slow down.
The speed will happen by itself. May be not by itself but probablt with a little bit of help of a metronome(HUMOR)
But generally, the speed will come if you keep things really really clean
So, Have fun with that i will see you in a little while for cycling. I dont mean on a bike!!!!!