Legato Workshop – Learn Hammer-On, Pull-Off, Slide & Vibrato Left-Hand Guitar Techniques

1. Legato Workshop Promo Video: Hi, guys. My name is Adina, and I'm a professional guitarist. Would you like to improve your hammer on, pull off, slide and vibrato left hand techniques? This course is designed with a series of exercises to improve your legato, and by the end of the course, you should have a stronger and more punctual left hand technique. After this course, you will be challenged with a lot of different exercises, and by the end, you might be able to play something like this. What are you waiting for? Sign up for my course and improve your left hand technique with me today. 2. 1. Introduction: Hi, my name is Adeno, and I will be your new instructor. And in this course, we are going to learn with a series of exercises, the hammer on, the pull off, the slide, and the vibrato technique. And hopefully by the end of the course, you will have a strong left hand legato technique. Now, let's get into it. 3. 2. Hammer-on and Pull-off Lesson: We are talking about legato techniques in this course, which literally means tie together. It means that one note smoothly transitioning to the second note without any stop. And this can be achieved with few different ways that first, we are going to have a look at the hammer on and pull off techniques to achieve this sound. This will also mean that we will only play once with or right hand and we will add the second note with or left hand. And you can play with your right hand in many different ways. If you want, you can play with your thumb. Or you can do a picado, which means an alternate picking between the index and middle finger, why you are pulling up to the next ring. You can also play with a plectrum. It is really up to you because this course will be mainly about the left hand technique. The first technique will be a hammeron. Haron means that we will play one note and we will add a second note with a different finger on the left hand, why we are playing only once on the right hand. And the reverse version of this technique is called pull off. In this case, you are going to pull it off one node to the next one to create a sound, so it will sound like this. A lot of people have very weak pull off, and it is because of the technique they are using. Lot of people doing like a backward Tamron instead of pulling off. So backward Tameron means that you are not behind the finger that you need to be but you just go like this. This is not strong enough with the sound. You really need to be behind with another finger to make it sound. The second thing that you need to do that a lot of people don't do is pulling it down. So they just, like, play and lift it up. And it is just not strong enough. You need to literally pull it down and release. Some people can also achieve a sound without releasing, but they still pull it down, and in the end, they end up on the string below. So it will be like this. Maybe this works better on an electric guitar, but in a classical or an acoustic guitar, I always recommend that you pull it down and then release it to the air to have the best sound as possible. A lot of people are rushing harans and pull offs. Now, this is just a right hand technique and the way you play this right hand technique. It's important to be still on time when you are playing this technique. So that's why you need to practice this slow as well and be able to speed up later on. So instead of doing it like This was very out of time. This is actually in capricho Arab, which is Francisco Tarega song, and it's using a lot of pull offs. But you need to practice this slowly, and every note should be the same. So then it will sound much more even. So in this case, you need to slow down the whole music and make sure that every note is the same distance. Now, let's get into the exercises. 4. 3. Hammer-on Finger Exercise: Our first exercise will be a Haron finger exercise where we will look at all the different combinations that you can do to play Haron. And this will be at first, indexed to the middle finger, and then we will do it with every different strings. A and then we will have middle and ring finger. And finally, we will have ring and little finger. And then we can do some other combinations as well. And this will be from middle to the little finger and index to the little finger. And finally, from the index to the ring finger. Now, I'm going to show you this exercise in two different speeds. Mm. 5. 4. Pull-off Finger Exercise: Our next exercise will be very similar to the one before, but now we are going to use this finger combination to do pull offs. So at first, we will pull off from the middle to the index finger and we will do it in every single string. And we will do it again from the ring to the middle. And we will do from the litter to the ring. After litter to the middle and litter to the index, and finally ring to the index. Now, let's do this exercise again in two different speed. Well, this exercise is considerably harder than the exercise before. But the more you do it, the easier it will get and the more strength you will have in your hands. 6. 5. Hammer-on Coordination Exercise: Our next exercise will be a heron coordination exercise, and in this case, we will add herons again in a lot of different ways with a lot of different fingers and combine them in all the different strings. And it will look like this in one string. Now, this exercise again, gets harder in a higher speed, but I suggest you to practice this at a slow speed first, and I'm going to show you and record you this exercise in two different speeds. 7. 6. Pull-off Coordination Exercise: Our next exercise is the pull off coordination exercise, which is, again, very similar to the hemron one, but we will do everything in reverse. So it will sound like this on one string. This will be, again, so much harder than the hemron exercise. And when you go higher with the speed, it gets even more tricky. So practice this at slow speed before you speed it up. Now I'm going to show you again in two different speeds. 8. 7. E Phrygian Scale: Now we will have a look at how you can play these kind of techniques when you use a scale. And we're going to learn the E frigion scale, and we will do some exercises on that one. We chose this scale because it's part of the C major scale. So it means there are no sharps or flats in it. Now, let's see the nodes of this scale. We have zero, one, three, zero, two, three, zero, three, zero, two, zero, one, three, zero, one, three. Now we are going to play this scale on the way down only with harons. It means that you only play one string once. And when we go up, we will do it with pull offs. And again, we will only play the strings once with one finger. 9. 8. Four Notes per Beat Hammer-on Exercise: Next exercise will be again on the E frigion scale. And this will be a four notes per bit heron exercise. Now before we do this exercise, at first, you need to practice it without adding the herons. So this will be playing four notes from the scale and after go to the second step and then you play another four notes. So it looks like this. One, two, three, four, one, two, three, four, one, two, three, four, one, two, three, four, and so on. Now, let's see how does it sound with the metronome. Now I'm going to do the same exercises. The only difference will be that I'm going to do hammerons wherever I can. So it means that I'm going to play every string only once. 10. 9. Four Notes per Beat Pull-off Exercise: The next exercise will be very similar, but we will do the four notes with pull off exercises. It will be at first, again, just playing the notes before we do the pull offs. So it will be one, two, three, four, one, two, three, four, one, two, three, four, and so on. Now let's do this with a metronome, again at two different speed. Now, let's do the same exercises with pull off. So it means we only play one string once, and everything else will be the same with the left hand. 11. 10. Hard Flamenco Exercxise: Our final exercise on the Hameron and pull off will be a flamenco guitar exercise. It is super hard, so don't be discouraged if you can't get there straightaway. So the exercise will be that we will play one chord and after we will do hammer on, pull off, pull off, hammer on, hammer on, pull off, pull off. And then we will play another chord and we will repeat this. Now, you can do this hammer on and pull offs on a way that you use your ring finger or you can use the little finger. A lot of people use the little finger because you can hammer on a little bit harder with the little finger, but you can do the same exercise with the ring finger as well. Now, let's do this with a metronome. 12. 11. Slide and Vibrato: We will have a look at two more techniques to finish this course, and this will be the slide and the vibrato. The slide is a part of legato technique because you are smoothly connecting two nodes together with it. But there are two types of slides. One of them is called the legato slide when you just play once between two nodes. And then there is the shift slide when you play the node again, but you slide between the two nodes. The vibrato is a technique where you elongate a node. So you make it sound a little bit nicer. The way to do it that you go very quickly on the sideways with the finger. Et's look at some exercises to practice our legato slide first, and after we will do a shift slide exercise with some vibrato. In the first exercise, we will just use all the different strings and the index finger to slide from one to the third fret. And after we will do the same with the middle finger, ring finger, and little finger. And so on and middle is the same. Mm and drink and finally little. Now, let's do this with a metronome. In our final exercise, we will add shift slide with a vibrato with all the different fingers in all the different strings. So it will look like this. Oh 13. 12. Outro: Thank you so much for doing this course with me, and if you enjoy it, please check out my other courses because on this side, there are plenty of other courses to choose from and learn more. I hope to see you again in another course.