Hammer Ons & Pull Offs for Bass Guitar

"CASEY CORMIER: If you ever learned how to play a regular six-string guitar before this, you might have learned about hammer-ons and pull-offs. If not, well today will be the first time maybe that you'll learn about them. So, on the bass we can use hammer-ons and pull-offs too. A hammer-on consists of playing one note, just plucking it once and then hammering a finger down. Could be a half step away, a whole step away or if you're ambitious, a minor 3rd away. And you're basically only plucking once with this finger. A pull-off is the opposite direction. This way you're taking this finger, say your third finger on the D string 7th fret, your first finger is going to wait back here in the 5th fret and you're going to play it, and then with the strength of your third finger pull away. So, don't just take it off, pull away as you do it. It's not [PLAYS PULL-OFF WRONGLY] it's [PLAYS PULL-OFF CORRECTLY]. You can do hammer-ons and pull-offs combined, so it's one pluck to do hammer-on, you also [INDISCERNIBLE] the third finger and pull off. This is good for strengthening your fingers in general, and also can be used in funk lines [PLAYS FUNK BASS LINE], so try to use your hammer-ons and pull-offs to make things sound a little bit cooler."