Fast Legato Rock Technique #2 (Guitar Lesson RO-012) How to play

Justin's Completely Free, Rock Guitar Lessons. This is Lesson RH-012. Lesson 6.

In this lesson we will learn how to play the 3nps (notes per string) using legato technique (hammer-ons and flick-offs). This is where you can start getting some speed on while making sure you develop a good action with clear and precise movements.

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Taught by Justin Sandercoe.

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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!!!!!