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SESSION 14 – Giving Your Playing Some Style
B o n u s R e s o u r c e s
RESOURCES
Key Concepts
Bends & Sliding to Notes Hammer-Ons & Pull-Offs
Palm Muting Jazz Octaves
Using a Capo Harmonics
Skills Gained in this Session
Knowing Proper Bend Technique Building a Fluid Hammer-On & Pull-Off Technique
Understanding How to Use a Capo The Ability to Incorporate Various Style Techniques
The question is whether a noble song is produced by nature or by
knowledge. I neither believe in mere labor being of avail without a
rich vein of talent, nor in natural ability which is not educated.
- Horace (65 -8 BC), Roman poet
Session Overview
This session covers how to play numerous helpful guto your playing will give a variety of ways of expression to your approach to the guitar.itar techniques. Adding these elements
Each of the techniques described use a physical motso that the muscle memory in the fingers can be developed. Some effort will be needed to ion that needs to be learned and rehearsed
obtain the physicality of each technique.
BENDS involve playing a note and then bending the spitch. Normally, your third or fourth finger would be the finger that would be bending the string. tring, either a half or whole step, to another
Developing finger strength is important to doing benote from above or beneath, usually from a half step or whole step. Sliding can be done with nds well. SLIDING involves approaching a
any finger and is one of the easier techniques to p lay.
A HAMMER-ON is a technique where you pick the firststrongly on the fretboard you get the second note to sound without picking it. A PULL-OFF is note then, by hitting your fretting finger
where you pick the first note then pull off your frsounds without picking it. Both hammer-ons and pull-offs require some diligentetting finger so that the remaining fretted note practice to
master the physical motions involved.ons and pull-offs but also incorporates another tec TAPPING is a great technique that combines hammerhnique of reaching over with your picking -
hand to hammer on a note on the fretboard.
HARMONICS involve lightly touching the string brieffret that has a harmonic on it and plucking the string simultaneously. There are natural ly with a fretting hand finger directly above a
harmonics for all of the open strings at the 12th f ret, 7th fret and 5th fret.
All of these techniques will add color and expressiuntil the physical issues of playing them are workeon to your playing. Each should be practiced d out. Keep up the great work!(^)
Always bend to a
specific pitch.
The physical
motion of each
technique must be
practiced
repetitively so that
proper muscle
memory in the
fingers can be
developed.
There are natural
harmonics for all
of the open strings
at the 12th, 7th &
5th frets.