Hammer ons/Pull offs

Yoshi_Josh93 · 10-25-2013, 12:36 AM

Does anyone here struggle with doing very quick hammer ons and pull offs using scales ? I guess it's just lots of practice.

DriveYourCarDownToTheSea · 10-25-2013, 11:55 PM

Never been a problem for me.

I gave guitar lessons to a guy once who had problems doing harmonics. I think he just had clumsy fingers.

IvanMC · 10-26-2013, 07:27 AM

Yoshi, there's some pretty good book by Guthrie Govan, who's not just a supreme musician, but a flawless teacher as well. He's written great stuff which might help you work out those hammer on/pull off problems of yours. The book is called "Creative Guitar", something like that. Get hold of its second part: there are lots of useful exercises! Helped me lots!
All the best.

chris_mills · 10-30-2013, 02:05 PM

Hammer ons and pull off are pretty simple. I guess it's just a test of quick fingers. (Thank you 15 years of PlayStation

). What I find tricky is tremolo picking (picking really fast). I guess that's just a test of quick and precise wrist movement which I don't have.

Zehef · 10-31-2013, 01:54 PM

they are pretty simple if you are playing with an amp, otherwise you neverknow if you did them correctly

hitdabox · 10-31-2013, 03:08 PM

It can be tricky. Doing hammer ons/pull offs quickly is great but I would just slow it down a little bit and make sure they are clean notes and in time to the tempo and slowly raise it up a notch (on a metronome if you have one) Once you start nailing that, speed er up. Practice will definitely help.

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IvanMC Music Addict Join Date: Aug 2013 Posts: 258	Yoshi, there's some pretty good book by Guthrie Govan, who's not just a supreme musician, but a flawless teacher as well. He's written great stuff which might help you work out those hammer on/pull off problems of yours. The book is called "Creative Guitar", something like that. Get hold of its second part: there are lots of useful exercises! Helped me lots! All the best.

10-30-2013, 02:05 PM	#4 (permalink)
chris_mills Music Addict Join Date: Oct 2013 Location: England Posts: 97	Hammer ons and pull off are pretty simple. I guess it's just a test of quick fingers. (Thank you 15 years of PlayStation ). What I find tricky is tremolo picking (picking really fast). I guess that's just a test of quick and precise wrist movement which I don't have.

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Zehef Groupie Join Date: Oct 2013 Posts: 5	they are pretty simple if you are playing with an amp, otherwise you neverknow if you did them correctly