Fret Hand Techniques for Guitar

Video Transcript

"Hi my name is Jared North and today we are going to be talking about some slides bends vibratos pull offs and hammer on’s. Lots of the fun stuff you can do now that you’ve got a little bit of an education on some scales. So lets first start of with a slide. Slide is relatively easy and it’s just as it’s name implies. We are going to start of with a slide on the fourth string fifth fret and all we are going to do is slide our finger from the fifth to the seventh, relatively easy. That’s how you slide a string. Our hammer on what re are going to do is first attack the same string same some note but instead of sliding, we’re going to just go ahead and press down with our fourth finger. Just like you’re hammering with your finger hence the name hammer on. A pull off is the same thing, only doing the opposite. Now bending the string, that’s a totally different technique and there are just a little bit more patience and time. Good bending and good bend players like David Gilmore and any of your great blues players like Buddy Guy put a lot of time into this craft. First off, you want to make sure we have good support with our fingers. We go ahead and we take both of our fingers, our middle finger and our ring finger and place our middle finger on the sixth fret of the third string and ring finger is going to be placed on the seventh fret and what we are going to do is bend up. Notice how this finger gives this finger support. How do we know that are bending to the right note? A full bend, should be in unison with the string right directly underneath it. That’s how you know you are bending correctly. There’s full bends, half bends and quarter bends depending on how much of the note you want to bend up but the basics are keep this finger and this finger close together for support and bend up. Our last technique is going to be called the vibrato. Vibrato is another one of those techniques takes a while to get down and finesse but once you’ve got it you’ve got your own signature sound. Everybody’s a little bit different but they do sound cool when you are soloing. So let’s go ahead, make sure we have plenty of support with our fingers, and wiggle the string back and forth. Gives it a sense of vibrato. For the beginner I highly recommend using three fingers or at least two fingers to get plenty of support and that’s some of the tricks we can do when playing around with our scales or soloing."