Playing Legato
Hey there IG guitar players, Let's start working on a very useful technique called legato. After you watch the video explanation, let's once more review the important parts of legato: 1. bring the wrist forward to obtain the optimal position for your fingers 2. remember to keep your thumb at least in the middle of the neck 3. hit the strings with the tips of your fingers 4. don't forget to mute strings you don't play with your right hand to eliminate all the unwanted noises Following these few simple rules will sure help you to start practicing the technique the right way and improve fast. In this particular exercise, we will work on getting your fingers to work separately from each other and get nice and clean hammer-on and pull-off sounds. You will soon notice that the pinky is really important for legato (just as for any other technique) and legato is one of the best things to play if you want to improve your pinky. See you in the next lesson with a new exercise.
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Lesson · 2m What is Legato?
Hey there IG guitar players, Let's start working on a very useful technique called legato. After you watch the video explanation, let's once more review the important parts of legato: 1. bring the wrist...
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Lesson Playing Legato - Exercise 1
In the previous lesson we worked on moving our fingers totally separately from each other. In this one will work on getting your fingers to work in linear sequence. The difference is that in this exercise the...
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Lesson · 1m Playing Legato - Exercise 2
Ok, it's now time to move from single string exercises and have a bigger bite. :) 2 strings exercises are more difficult as you now have to watch carefully what you mute and what you pick so here it is step by...
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Lesson · 1m Playing Legato - Exercise 3
OK, remember the first legato lesson? Well, now we'll use that same exercise and play it on 2 strings which will make it way more difficult. First of all, I want to turn your attention to tabs: in the tab you...
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Lesson · 1m Playing Legato - Exercise 4
Here we go - 3 strings legato exercise. As you can see, we involve a few pickstrokes here and there. These are unavoidable as we move between strings a lot and we only use picks when we are playing ascending...
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