Fingerstyle Patterns using Hammers & Flicks (Folk Guitar Lesson FO-109)

This is the last lesson in the folk fingerstyle series unless you bought the DVD! :) hint hint! It shows you some cool ways to use hammer-ons and flick-offs into your fingerstyle patterns... can be pretty tricky but well worth the effort. TAB is on the web site!

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Taught by Justin Sandercoe.

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Hi, how'ya doing, Justin here!

Welcome to this last lesson in the
Folk Fingerstyle Module,

where we're gonna be learning how to add
hammer-ons and flick-offs into our patterns.

Now, this is quite tricky. The first time
I learned it, I really struggled with it,

so, expect it to take a little bit of time
to learn, but if you are going to continue

your path into folk fingerstyle, and you're
gonna learn some James Taylor, or

Tommy Emmanuel, Andy Mckee, any of those
kinda complex guys, you're gonna need to

learn this technique. It's gonna take some
practice. What I'm gonna do in this lesson,

I've written out four patterns, which use
some of the common kind of ideas and

I'm gonna take you through each one and
explain what's going on. So, when you

come across them in the real world, you'll
understand how to go about practicing them

and the difficulties that you might face.
It's a lot of fun and you don't wanna

always have to pick every note that you're
gonna play. So, using hammer-ons and

flick-offs is very-very common. So, what
we're gonna do is we're gonna have look

at the right hand and then the left hand
(the fretting hand and then the picking hand)

for each one of the patterns and hopefully
you'll get it, you'll sort them out and

you'll be able to incorporate these into
your playing as well and of course,

remember, that once you've learned this,
you might wanna think back to when you

made up your own patterns, and maybe
make up some of your own patterns that

also use these hammer-ons
and flick-offs too.

So, let's get to a close-up and
check out pattern 17.

♪

OK, that's the first pattern. Now, what
what we've starting-off here is with our

little finger on the 3rd fret
of the 2nd string. (♪)

And it's flicking-off onto the
1st fret of the 2nd string.

♪

Now, the trick here is, that it has to
flick-off exactly at the end.

1-and-2; and then we're playing
with the thumb. So, 1-and-2-and-3

Now this one, the part on beat 3,
we've just played the open 2nd string,

lifting our 1st finger off, and we
hammer it down at exactly the same time as

our thumb plays on the 3rd beat.
So: 1, and, 2, and, 3

And we're not playing that one.
Make sure you recognize it,

that's a hammer-on.
1, and, 2, and, 3, and, 4

And now here: and-4
So you're flicking this off,

little finger's flicking off,
at exactly the same time

the thumb is playing the 4th string (♪)

Which feels really weird
when you start-off with;

this stuff's gonna feel awkward, you know.

but just do it like this slowly.
Really slowly.

1-and-2-and-3-and-4
1-and-2-and-3-and-4

That's how you're gonna have to do it.
Just real slow

♪

Ok, I want you to see clearly now,
how little this hand is doing

for that seemingly quite complicated
pattern. Thumb and 2nd finger together,

flick-off, thumb, 2nd finger, thumb,
3rd finger, thumb; and that's it!

So: ♪

It's really part of the trick here
is getting the...resisting the urge

to go: ♪

because your fingers gonna
naturally wanna play it.

Flick.

And here: just the thumb.

And hammering the 1st finger down.

♪

Ok, we've got a few interesting things
going on here:

♪

Playing the thumb and the 2nd finger,
we're now on the G chord of course,

we've moved from C to G;
flicking-off little finger to 1st finger

Thumb, playing the open

Now we've got thumb and
2nd, or 1st finger-doesn't really matter

Flick-off, then: ♪

We've got little finger going down,
so we're changing the bass note

instead of ♪
we're now going 1-and-2-3-4

We're adding this F note in there.
It makes it like a G7

♪

So, it'll be thumb, playing that note
there, the F, 3rd fret of the 4th string,

♪

It's just a really cool little pattern
I want you to see the idea, that

sometimes the bass notes can change.

As well as incorporating your flick-offs
and hammer-ons as well.

♪

Ok, let's check-out the picking hand.

Ok, so we're starting here with our
2nd finger, and the bass note being played

flicking-off, thumb, 2nd finger, thumb
and 1st finger, flick-off, thumb, 1st

♪

OK, this is pattern 19.
This is a fun one, because we're

now using our travis picking;
5th string, 4th string, 6th string, 4th string,

So, on our C: ♪

When we're doing it in open position,
make sure, use your 3rd finger to move over.

Don't: ♪

Of course there's enough fingers to
hold all of the strings down, but then

♪

It all just flows together.

You want that kind of definition that
moving the finger gives you.

And we're adding in the
hammer-ons and flick-offs.

♪

So, here hammer your little finger
in the 2nd string 3rd fret

♪

Bass, open, bass, 3rd finger playing
the 3rd fret of the thinnest string

and then that's gonna flick-off at exactly
the same time as you pluck the 4th string.

That was really hard to do slow,
but anyway:)

♪

Thumb and 2nd finger start-off here.

With a hammer-on, thumb, 3rd finger,

thumb on the thickest string, 3rd finger
playing the thinnest string and then the flick-off

happening at exactly the same time
as the thumb-

♪

Really think when you've got the flick-off
try and connect the moving of your thumb

with the flick-off; so it's almost like
it becomes one movement.

♪

'Cause thumb's just playing that one note.

But you have to connect
the thumb with that

flick-off movement,
'cause if the flick-off comes

too early, or too late,
it'll just sound wrong.

Ok, and pattern number 20

♪

We've got here we're on G;

Pick, flick-off the 1st finger from
the 1st fret to the open

♪

then 1st finger, open, 2nd finger, open.

♪

Works nice kind of to see that one.

♪

Let's look at the picking hand.

♪

Starting with thumb on the thickest string,-
we're on a G chord of course,- 3rd finger,

playing the thinnest string, flick-off,
thumb, 2nd finger, then thumb and 2nd,

flick-off, thumb and 1st, flick-off.

♪

Incorporating your hammer-ons and
flick-offs into your fingerstyle patterns

is most likely gonna be difficult and require
quite a few hours of practice.

I do think it's worth it
and you'll find that

all of the great fingerpickers
use this technique.

The thing that you probably wanna do now
is go back and try and make up some of

your own patterns that use it. That's
probably the best way to go about it now.

Either that, or have a go at learning some
James Taylor, or Tommy Emmanuel, or

one of the great fingerpickers;.

Chet Atkins maybe,
or Merle Travis and see,

if you can actually work out their tunes
and see the way they're using it

and putting it into practice. Those that've
bought the DVD version of this series

will have the bonus material, where
I'm gonna do some actual songs

and incorporate all of the ideas that
we've done in this course, so

some of you are probably gonna be
checking that out now, which is good for me

and good for you, buying the DVD really
helps support all of the free stuff, so

if you've enjoyed this, you wanna
check out the bonus material and

go and pick up the DVD off the website and
check out the extras, I'm sure you'll dig'em.

Hope you've enjoyed the course,
take care of yourselves and

I'll see you for much more guitar lessons,
licks, riffs, tricks, songs and all that stuff

I can't speak now, my mouth has gone dry
I've been doing all that,-I've actually done

nearly all of these lessons in
one run-through,- and just a funny little

insider thing, doing this last little intro
has taken about 5000 gazillion takes,

which I find funny, 'cause most of the
rest of it's been plain sailing, like 1, or 2 goes

on all of these and they've just
sailed through.

Ridiculous how life works sometomes
anyway. Take care of yourselves,

have a lovely time with these fingerstyle patterns
and I'll see you for much more very soon.

Take care, bye-bye!