Legato Technique for Classical Guitar

Video Transcript

"Hi my name is John Armstrong with expertvillage.com I'm a professional guitar instructor and today we are going to be discussing beginning classical guitar. Next I will like to discuss to you today the legato technique or slurring technique. Now what legato or slurring is when you do not articulate the following note and in our case being a guitar player articulating means picking. We come to know these as what is refer to this as hammer-on and pull offs. A hammer-on occurs when we go to a lower note up to a higher note. For example I will do a hammer-on here on the 1st string on the high E string moving from a F note to a G note. Just picking the F note and hammering-on the G note. The opposite would be refer to as a pull off moving from a higher note down to a lower note. In this situation we will be doing a G down to a F. The following example the following exercise deals with hammer-ons. As you could see there is a little curve or arch line between the 2 notes that is telling you that you are picking the 1st note and slurring or hammer-on into the 2nd note. Here we go here is the 1st exercise starting from the F and hammering-on to a F sharp. A F sharp up to a G. A G up to a G sharp and it finishes off by moving from G to G sharp. G to G sharp. G to G sharp. Again. Okay one more time. "