So cool.. I'm a former drummer (carple tunnel) and I used to watch Jared Faulk. I've been watching you since April and I have really learned a lot. You gentlemen, are fantastic musicians and I thank you so very much for all your help and education.
I have a question about legato. When you play pulls-offs, how do you keep the INACTIVE fingers relaxed? Does it come naturally to you, or did you have to practice special exercises in order to achieve that? Thank you
I never took lessons, and that's why my playing is still so average after several years..it's really important to learn these things when you're beginning. Playing hammer ons and pull offs are very core to the technique, great lesson!
Most excellent, especially in the split-screen view of both hands. Best I've seen on the subject. I've played and performed for a very long time. Great job.
I've been playing most of my life and this was all so simple and I needed to slow down and take it from a beginning again and take my time. I can play some mean blues but this will definitely help in adding to my workouts.! Thanks man!
Hey Nate great lesson! I have used with my students the approach to "pick the string" with your finger for pull-offs and it works 9 out of 10 times! Good work!!
Great lessons I started with this one and kept watching ... I learned more tonite watching and doing your exercises than I've learned in 20 years somehow. I think just applying it like you do and following along combining minor scale with the pentatonic and major I've had a breakthrough. Thanks so much 🙏
Great lesson Nate. You have really helped my guitar playing after stating later in life. I probably would have given up without your very easy to understand lessons.
Super lesson Nate! Shows that you can create music armed with a scale,hammer-ons, pull-offs & a jam track.Plus some experimenting with ideas.Thanks again!
I discovered this channel yesterday and have watched a good amount that I think would help me as a beginner. I have to say, this video here seems to be the one that's going to help me more immediately. Can't wait to get out of the office to work on this. My struggle right now is finger independence and this seems like a great way to overcome that issue.
very good instruction, was just looking for legato exercises, because i haven't used them in forever, what a good teacher and quality video presentation
Thanks for the lesson. I try to do all my finger practice on my acoustic guitar first. If I can make it sound good on it, I know I can easily do it on an electric. The stiffer strings on my acoustic makes it more difficult to accomplish but it's good for my strength. Thanks again for the exercises.
Fantastic lessen bud. My hammer ons are very weak so I need to really practice them to keep improving. I liked the way you demo'd the basic techniques and then put them into a musical context. Great lesson. 🤗
It may seem strange, but the hammer-on motion is more an issue of speed than strength. Try keeping your hand relaxed and bringing the hammer-on finger down quickly rather than trying to bring it down with a ton of force. The quickness of the finger is what should generate the new note. It’s also completely natural for the hammer-on finger to drawback/recoil slightly (for a split second) before coming down on the string. It’s kind of like a mini windup. You can see him do this at 1:26. The other thing to focus on is making sure the hammer-on finger completely hits the string flush and not off-center, and that it stays pressed down on the string once it hits it. Being off-center or breaking contact with the string after coming down on it (even just a little bit) will result in improper or inefficient energy transfer from your hammer-on finger to the string. Let me know if this helps! God bless!
Dude! you are a great instructor. Your videos have been a tremendous help with my journey on this awesome instrument. I'm so excited about the infinite possibilities. THANK U SO VERY MUCH!
Why does so many finger exercises start at/or around the 5th fret? lol Just noticed this after coming away from the spider workout. I move it around the neck, and my hammer-on, pull-off workout was just starting with my pointer then to each other finger move to the ring then HO/PO with each finger etc. But I had no idea it was called Legato, and this is a really good workout to add along with the spider, both sharing the idea of economy of movement and not having that wild pinky flair out. Thanks for the lesson! Keep up the good work!
It's lessons like this that are the key to unlocking he door by answering the question, "How do they play so freakin fast." Answer, hammer ons and pull offs. OK but how do I get better at that? THIS is the answer! Brilliant lesson!!!
I am using an electroacoustic guitar and it's really hard to keep the volume equal to the first pick. I know that I can get it on an electric since I've been doing hammers and pull offs for some time know, but I lack of speed.
cool video! how important is the picking motion in order to play fast legato? I see that you are playing all downstrokes when ascending if you play it slow, but if you play it fast you play alternate picking. So whats the best way to do it for ascending & descending?
I'm just getting back into learning guitar after giving it up for a long time. Why did no one ever explain to me that you actually pluck the string on a pull off? I probably never would have quit playing guitar if someone had properly explained to me that the reasons my pull offs sound like crap was because I was literally pulling off and not plucking.
can you tell me some hand positioning techniques? I see with your style of playing you seem more parallel to the fretboard. Is that just to teach and make it more visible to players? Cause I like to hug the fretboard a bit more, its just more comfortable and allows more flexibility on my playing
Hi. Over last months I have been working on building left hand dexterity. I noticed my dexterity begging to suffer gradually the more I practiced hammers and pulls. Now my left hand feels very stiff and I can barely play a pull-off to save my life. I am advanced-level player with 17 yrs experience in Rock and Flamenco guitar. ... I was mindful of not overworking my hand when doing these relatively rigorous exercises. At first my hammers and pulls seemed to be getting better, but at one point it just stopped yielding results, and lately my technique seems to have worsened. Initially i thought it is just my brain struggling to implement all the intricacies of playing a pull-off correctly, but I think its for a different reason, more to do with hand/finger wear. -It has become harder to curl the fingers into the palm, there is pain in the ring joints when I press on them, or curl my fingers in completely. -The left hand generally seems stiff and it requires more effort to use. -Sympathetic tension has got worse, despite all the efforts over last months. If I move a finger (even the index), I can feel tension in other fingers and through-out the hand. In fact the right hand seems to have better dexterity and independence , even though I never even worked on it. -The ring joint of the middle finger cracks evertime I curl it and the pinky has 'trigger finger'. My left hand is a mess, please advise what to do. I will stay away from practice for a week, hopefully it will go away.
Great video, thanks for sharing! As a beginner, I'm trying to duplicate movements/sound at at 7m in the video. However, after the first hammer the sound diminishes no matter how hard my fingers hammer the string and the sound is gone by the time I hammer the 3rd/4th fingers and won't start again unless I pluck the string. Wondering if my technique is still off or if there is an issue with my electric guitar not picking up the hammers. Any feedback on what might be happening and how to fix would be greatly appreciated. TIA!
Completely understandable. Most likely, this is because your planting finger (i.e. whatever finger you’re pulling off to) is also pulling the string downward. To avoid this, keep the planting finger completely anchored while only the pull-off finger ‘brushes’ the string downward. At first this will take some concentration, but try to keep it from moving. Think of it like a pivot of the feet: one foot moves while the other remains an anchor point that rotates without ever moving. Just remember to relax your hand. On electric guitar, hammer-ons and pull-offs take very little mechanical effort. I’m not saying they’re not difficult at first (because any new motion comes with some degree of difficulty), but I am saying that they often don’t require as much strength as people think. Let me know if this helps! God bless!
could my action being extremly low be a reason why my hammer ons and pull of not sound as loud in attack as yours, i have my actions and relief set to what fender recommended and i know people say set it up to what is most comfortable to you, but i dont know what is more comfortable or suitable for me
Is it a Classic or a Standard? It's beautiful. I have a SD'd Korean Tokai Love Rock myself and a Gibson SG Special White Faded. And a SD'd Mex Strat but a real Les Paul would be nice ;-) Great lesson, by the way.
Whenever I do a pull off I keep pulling the string down and I can’t find a way to bring it back up while playing and keep myself from doing that what is a solution to this. Just practice and strengthen my fingers?
Above Trauma are you holding the string with your other fingers after you pull the string down and release. Your others fingers can rest on the strings but make sure they aren’t pulling the string. If they aren’t the string will go right back to normal position after you pull off.
hammer ons are so difficult using the pinky Im practicing a song where i have to place my 1st finger on the low E string on the third fret and 3rd finger on the fifth fret A string and i have to hammer on with my pinky on the 7th fret of that A string
So to play in the A minor pentatonic your 1st position now starts at the fifth fret...does that mean you can't play frets 1 thru 4 in a A minor pentatonic scale? or if so what positions do they take?
+wakeywakey For the first position of the A minor Pentatonic scale you would be playing between frets 5 and 8. You could play in position 5 and you would play between frets 2 and 5. Starting on your low E you would play 3 - 5, 3 - 5, 2 - 5, 2 - 5, 2 - 5, 3 - 5, 3 - 5. :) Hope that helps.
My high E string flies of the fret board whenever i do a pull off no matter how hard i press on down with my index finger. Is there a solution? (Im using electric guitar)
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Pull offs is hard af.
Java S. I find them easier then hammer ons
YeahNahM8 same, it’s kinda like picking with the left hand.
I still cant get my hammer ons sound loud i hammer on and shit happens
@@l4n1skyy they’re easy all practise. Always work on your weaknesses and you’ll get there trust
Tbh i find them super easy but hammer ons are hard
reference
1. 5:17 (trill exercise)
2. 8:10 (hammer on working down strings then pull off going up)
3. 11:00 (application to scale)
the hero we don't deserve
@@onii-chankenobi2469 after searching for some to teach us this hard lesson, and practicing forever, i say we deserve him
So cool.. I'm a former drummer (carple tunnel) and I used to watch Jared Faulk. I've been watching you since April and I have really learned a lot. You gentlemen, are fantastic musicians and I thank you so very much for all your help and education.
Amazing! The whole not hitting hard for hammer ons was a revelation
I have a question about legato. When you play pulls-offs, how do you keep the INACTIVE fingers relaxed? Does it come naturally to you, or did you have to practice special exercises in order to achieve that?
Thank you
Try doing the spiderwalk for better finger independence
0:35 I see what you did there
Loved this one. I think that Nate is one heck of a teacher. I understand all of his lessons quickly.
Excellent. :)
I never took lessons, and that's why my playing is still so average after several years..it's really important to learn these things when you're beginning. Playing hammer ons and pull offs are very core to the technique, great lesson!
Most excellent, especially in the split-screen view of both hands. Best I've seen on the subject. I've played and performed for a very long time. Great job.
I've been playing most of my life and this was all so simple and I needed to slow down and take it from a beginning again and take my time. I can play some mean blues but this will definitely help in adding to my workouts.! Thanks man!
Hey Nate great lesson! I have used with my students the approach to "pick the string" with your finger for pull-offs and it works 9 out of 10 times! Good work!!
11:52 "try to keep your emotions really efficient and small" 😂
IFBB Pro Jake Steel..like wtf? That was lame!
@@hazzpolo I think he meant to say motions not emotions xD
My inner self: "Pipe down now sadness. Pipe down."
best hammer on and pull offs lesson on youtube!
+Z Karaz Thanks. :)
Check out Paul Gilbert
Great lessons I started with this one and kept watching ... I learned more tonite watching and doing your exercises than I've learned in 20 years somehow. I think just applying it like you do and following along combining minor scale with the pentatonic and major I've had a breakthrough. Thanks so much 🙏
Great lesson Nate. You have really helped my guitar playing after stating later in life. I probably would have given up without your very easy to understand lessons.
Very helpful!
Wanted to improve my Hammer pull off and trills for covering Crazy Train solo.
I almost give up on pull ups but you save me , ty you so much ❤👍
Thank you for sharing these techniques to us sir , I've seen so many tutorials on these subjects but yours is the best.
Super lesson Nate! Shows that you can create music armed with a scale,hammer-ons, pull-offs & a jam track.Plus some
experimenting with ideas.Thanks again!
Yeah man, I really like that jam track. I use it pretty regularly for a warm up.
I discovered this channel yesterday and have watched a good amount that I think would help me as a beginner. I have to say, this video here seems to be the one that's going to help me more immediately. Can't wait to get out of the office to work on this. My struggle right now is finger independence and this seems like a great way to overcome that issue.
very good instruction, was just looking for legato exercises, because i haven't used them in forever, what a good teacher and quality video presentation
This is the best legato video on youtube
This is the best lesson that I have seen on this subject... and trust me, I search a lot.. Thanks!!
+Satirtha Basu Cool! Thanks.
Thanks for the lesson. I try to do all my finger practice on my acoustic guitar first. If I can make it sound good on it, I know I can easily do it on an electric. The stiffer strings on my acoustic makes it more difficult to accomplish but it's good for my strength. Thanks again for the exercises.
Great lesson, just what I need to do to take me to the next level, thank you
thank you! definitly gonna integrate this into my workout routine :)
Yeah man, I usually do it for a couple of weeks then lay off for a while.
Excellent content. From Brooklyn , NY.
Fantastic lessen bud. My hammer ons are very weak so I need to really practice them to keep improving. I liked the way you demo'd the basic techniques and then put them into a musical context. Great lesson. 🤗
Ay man same
It may seem strange, but the hammer-on motion is more an issue of speed than strength. Try keeping your hand relaxed and bringing the hammer-on finger down quickly rather than trying to bring it down with a ton of force. The quickness of the finger is what should generate the new note. It’s also completely natural for the hammer-on finger to drawback/recoil slightly (for a split second) before coming down on the string. It’s kind of like a mini windup. You can see him do this at 1:26.
The other thing to focus on is making sure the hammer-on finger completely hits the string flush and not off-center, and that it stays pressed down on the string once it hits it. Being off-center or breaking contact with the string after coming down on it (even just a little bit) will result in improper or inefficient energy transfer from your hammer-on finger to the string.
Let me know if this helps! God bless!
@@tellmey6641 hopefully my response above helps you too! Let me know if you need further clarification!
This really improved my playing thank you so much for this
Thank you. I will be spending a lot of time on this. The inside surface of my finger tips are sensitive.
Dude! you are a great instructor. Your videos have been a tremendous help with my journey on this awesome instrument. I'm so excited about the infinite possibilities. THANK U SO VERY MUCH!
Shaw East Thanks Shaw. Glad you like the videos. :) Thanks for posting.
Thanks for this wonderful lesson !
Thank you for this wonderful tutorial ♥️🙏
Why does so many finger exercises start at/or around the 5th fret? lol Just noticed this after coming away from the spider workout. I move it around the neck, and my hammer-on, pull-off workout was just starting with my pointer then to each other finger move to the ring then HO/PO with each finger etc. But I had no idea it was called Legato, and this is a really good workout to add along with the spider, both sharing the idea of economy of movement and not having that wild pinky flair out. Thanks for the lesson! Keep up the good work!
Awesome lesson, lovely jam track.
It's lessons like this that are the key to unlocking he door by answering the question, "How do they play so freakin fast." Answer, hammer ons and pull offs. OK but how do I get better at that? THIS is the answer! Brilliant lesson!!!
Great lesson. Thank you so much. You tore up that jam track.
Really liked what you did with this and the jam track. Excellent!
luv this! Thanks. 👍👍👍👍👍🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸
wow awesome lesson and the quality of the videa is really good. i learned a lot! thx
thank's for the lesson teacher!
LEGEND!!! Thank you ❤️✌🏼👍🏻
very good! congratulations!
keep doing this great work!
thanks
Great lesson. Thank you!
I am using an electroacoustic guitar and it's really hard to keep the volume equal to the first pick. I know that I can get it on an electric since I've been doing hammers and pull offs for some time know, but I lack of speed.
Thank you for the lessons
Wow. Thanks a lot man. I've been doing my pull offs wrong😂
Very Interesting ans helpful. Thanks Nate
Super friggin helpful!! Thank you!!!!
Awesome...thank you!!!
Great video!
Thank you - a very good workout.
Great work!! Gracias!
Thanks for details
Thankyou very much
Wow Thank you !!
cool video! how important is the picking motion in order to play fast legato? I see that you are playing all downstrokes when ascending if you play it slow, but if you play it fast you play alternate picking. So whats the best way to do it for ascending & descending?
Great lesson Thanks
Great video
Thank you!!!!
I'm just getting back into learning guitar after giving it up for a long time. Why did no one ever explain to me that you actually pluck the string on a pull off? I probably never would have quit playing guitar if someone had properly explained to me that the reasons my pull offs sound like crap was because I was literally pulling off and not plucking.
thank you. it was very helpful and a light bulb turned on hehe:)))
Excellent buddy
can you tell me some hand positioning techniques? I see with your style of playing you seem more parallel to the fretboard. Is that just to teach and make it more visible to players? Cause I like to hug the fretboard a bit more, its just more comfortable and allows more flexibility on my playing
This is so usefull! Thanks!
+Stijn van Kuilenburg You're welcome :)
what bands is he in or where can i see him fully ripping?
THANKS
It's rock n' roll!
Hi. Over last months I have been working on building left hand dexterity.
I noticed my dexterity begging to suffer gradually the more I practiced hammers and pulls. Now my left hand feels very stiff and I can barely play a pull-off to save my life. I am advanced-level player with 17 yrs experience in Rock and Flamenco guitar.
...
I was mindful of not overworking my hand when doing these relatively rigorous exercises. At first my hammers and pulls seemed to be getting better, but at one point it just stopped yielding results, and lately my technique seems to have worsened. Initially i thought it is just my brain struggling to implement all the intricacies of playing a pull-off correctly, but I think its for a different reason, more to do with hand/finger wear.
-It has become harder to curl the fingers into the palm, there is pain in the ring joints when I press on them, or curl my fingers in completely.
-The left hand generally seems stiff and it requires more effort to use.
-Sympathetic tension has got worse, despite all the efforts over last months. If I move a finger (even the index), I can feel tension in other fingers and through-out the hand. In fact the right hand seems to have better dexterity and independence , even though I never even worked on it.
-The ring joint of the middle finger cracks evertime I curl it and the pinky has 'trigger finger'.
My left hand is a mess, please advise what to do. I will stay away from practice for a week, hopefully it will go away.
Maybe your fingers are inflamed. Try to hammer relaxed as you can. It’s not about hitting hard. Relaxation is the key
thank you
Спасибо за урок.
GOOD STUFF BROTHER!!
Where can I download the jam track?
Damn Good exercise bro.. !!!! You give tha same exercise which i was looking for. Thank you 😎
You are welcome man. Thanks for watching.
Excellent
Thankyou sir.
Thanks for helping me. In 12 and my my hands are kinda small so it was kinda hard 😂😂
Great video, thanks for sharing! As a beginner, I'm trying to duplicate movements/sound at at 7m in the video. However, after the first hammer the sound diminishes no matter how hard my fingers hammer the string and the sound is gone by the time I hammer the 3rd/4th fingers and won't start again unless I pluck the string. Wondering if my technique is still off or if there is an issue with my electric guitar not picking up the hammers. Any feedback on what might be happening and how to fix would be greatly appreciated. TIA!
Are you still having difficulty with this? If so, let me know and I can give you some pointers
Thnx u very much. 👍
Thanks, great video. I noticed you use lower # fingers as a guide when using higher number fingers?
Damn this is excatly what my guitar playing was missing all along
great. very useful
+Igor Herrera Thanks, :)
My issue is pull offs on the high E, i keep pulling the string outside the neck and then it’s just a mess
Completely understandable. Most likely, this is because your planting finger (i.e. whatever finger you’re pulling off to) is also pulling the string downward. To avoid this, keep the planting finger completely anchored while only the pull-off finger ‘brushes’ the string downward. At first this will take some concentration, but try to keep it from moving. Think of it like a pivot of the feet: one foot moves while the other remains an anchor point that rotates without ever moving.
Just remember to relax your hand. On electric guitar, hammer-ons and pull-offs take very little mechanical effort. I’m not saying they’re not difficult at first (because any new motion comes with some degree of difficulty), but I am saying that they often don’t require as much strength as people think.
Let me know if this helps! God bless!
while doing pull off why does my string slips down even after holding it very tight /..
Same
Same also
Hey Nate, just curious about different ways of holding the pick and how that correlates to guitar speed. How do you hold your pick? thanks!
+Jonah Adams It's different for everyone. I usually hold it so it hits the strings at a very slight angle.
i've noticed that when you do the pull-off, your middle finger curls a bit in.
Is this acceptable or will i need to work on NOT having it curl at all?
What kind of music is this!? I really like its tune! What should i search for to hear this genre of music?
Jagh
this is a great exercise. so difficult for me because i am a beginner. lol
Hows your progress since its been a month now?
could my action being extremly low be a reason why my hammer ons and pull of not sound as loud in attack as yours, i have my actions and relief set to what fender recommended and i know people say set it up to what is most comfortable to you, but i dont know what is more comfortable or suitable for me
That's the kind of Les Paul I want to get, red and stuff.
Yeah, I've wanted one of those since I was about 15. :)
Is it a Classic or a Standard? It's beautiful. I have a SD'd Korean Tokai Love Rock myself and a Gibson SG Special White Faded. And a SD'd Mex Strat but a real Les Paul would be nice ;-) Great lesson, by the way.
Whenever I do a pull off I keep pulling the string down and I can’t find a way to bring it back up while playing and keep myself from doing that what is a solution to this. Just practice and strengthen my fingers?
Above Trauma are you holding the string with your other fingers after you pull the string down and release. Your others fingers can rest on the strings but make sure they aren’t pulling the string. If they aren’t the string will go right back to normal position after you pull off.
Should I practice this with clean tone or overdrive/distortion? Or does it make a difference at all?
gabrocki no lol
sure, i liked this video
For some reason, whenever I try to trill for to long, my fingers slowly stiffen until they get stuck in place. Does anyone else have this issue?
So the trill is gone?
@@bradleygoodwill7547 yes, my fingers were frozen lol, but update, I no longer have this issue
Nice. Practice makes perfect!
@@bradleygoodwill7547 He he!
thanks a lot. i hope it will also help with my playing speed, i am slow i wanna play faster. any tips. thanks in advance
+kutlo kgaladua Speed just comes with spending lots of time with the instrument. Playing with a metronome helps.
Never skip leg day
hammer ons are so difficult using the pinky
Im practicing a song where i have to place my 1st finger on the low E string on the third fret and 3rd finger on the fifth fret A string and i have to hammer on with my pinky on the 7th fret of that A string
So to play in the A minor pentatonic your 1st position now starts at the fifth fret...does that mean you can't play frets 1 thru 4 in a A minor pentatonic scale? or if so what positions do they take?
+wakeywakey For the first position of the A minor Pentatonic scale you would be playing between frets 5 and 8. You could play in position 5 and you would play between frets 2 and 5. Starting on your low E you would play 3 - 5, 3 - 5, 2 - 5, 2 - 5, 2 - 5, 3 - 5, 3 - 5. :) Hope that helps.
I was COMPLETELY encouraged UNTIL 13:15 kicked in! lol
My high E string flies of the fret board whenever i do a pull off no matter how hard i press on down with my index finger. Is there a solution?
(Im using electric guitar)