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 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!
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'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!
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!!!
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.
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.
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.
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!
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.
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
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.
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.
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!
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!
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!
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 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!
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.
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
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.
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.
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!
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.
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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.
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!
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
Amazing! The whole not hitting hard for hammer ons was a revelation
0:35 I see what you did there
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
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!
Loved this one. I think that Nate is one heck of a teacher. I understand all of his lessons quickly.
Excellent. :)
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!!!
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."
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.
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!!
best hammer on and pull offs lesson on youtube!
+Z Karaz Thanks. :)
Check out Paul Gilbert
This is the best legato video on youtube
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.
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 helpful!
Wanted to improve my Hammer pull off and trills for covering Crazy Train solo.
Thank you for sharing these techniques to us sir , I've seen so many tutorials on these subjects but yours is the best.
This is the best lesson that I have seen on this subject... and trust me, I search a lot.. Thanks!!
+Satirtha Basu Cool! Thanks.
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.
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.
I almost give up on pull ups but you save me , ty you so much ❤👍
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
Thank you for this wonderful tutorial ♥️🙏
Excellent content. From Brooklyn , NY.
Thanks for this wonderful lesson !
Great lesson, just what I need to do to take me to the next level, thank you
LEGEND!!! Thank you ❤️✌🏼👍🏻
Thank you. I will be spending a lot of time on this. The inside surface of my finger tips are sensitive.
luv this! Thanks. 👍👍👍👍👍🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸
This really improved my playing thank you so much for this
Thanks for details
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.
Awesome lesson, lovely jam track.
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.
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.
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.
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!
Great video!
Wow. Thanks a lot man. I've been doing my pull offs wrong😂
thank's for the lesson teacher!
THANKS
Great video
Great lesson. Thank you so much. You tore up that jam track.
Thank you!!!!
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!
Very Interesting ans helpful. Thanks Nate
Great work!! Gracias!
Thank you - a very good workout.
It's rock n' roll!
Awesome...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
very good! congratulations!
keep doing this great work!
thanks
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
thank you
Thnx u very much. 👍
Thank you for the lessons
Never skip leg day
wow awesome lesson and the quality of the videa is really good. i learned a lot! thx
Wow Thank you !!
Really liked what you did with this and the jam track. Excellent!
thanks a lot
Excellent
Great lesson ! Thanks !!
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
Thankyou sir.
great. very useful
+Igor Herrera Thanks, :)
while doing pull off why does my string slips down even after holding it very tight /..
Same
Same also
This is so usefull! Thanks!
+Stijn van Kuilenburg You're welcome :)
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
what bands is he in or where can i see him fully ripping?
Thanks, great video. I noticed you use lower # fingers as a guide when using higher number fingers?
Спасибо за урок.
Super friggin helpful!! Thank you!!!!
thank you. it was very helpful and a light bulb turned on hehe:)))
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.
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.
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
it does matter how hard. Force = Mass * Acceleration and you cannot change the mass of your finger so how hard it is completely depends on your speed.
Haha. Damnit Jim, I'm a guitar player, not a physicist.
sure, i liked this video
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.
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!
GOOD STUFF BROTHER!!
Where can I download the jam track?
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.
I have a 1963 single coil pickup strat. I cannot get the sound to carry over when I get the fret. Any help?
Can you do this with acoustic?
What gauge strings do you use? Thanks in advance :)
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?
Damn Good exercise bro.. !!!! You give tha same exercise which i was looking for. Thank you 😎
You are welcome man. Thanks for watching.
Thanks for helping me. In 12 and my my hands are kinda small so it was kinda hard 😂😂
Damn this is excatly what my guitar playing was missing all along
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!
Should I practice this with clean tone or overdrive/distortion? Or does it make a difference at all?
gabrocki no lol
What kind of music is this!? I really like its tune! What should i search for to hear this genre of music?
Jagh
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.