How to Play Hammer Ons in a Guitar Progression

Video Transcript

"I'm Rick Tobey, on behalf of Expert Village, and this is Blues Progressions Part Two. So now we're going to play the twelve bar blues progression in A with the open chords using the hammer notes. Now bear in mind you're going to muffle the strings with your right hand, kind of get a nice, kind of muted sound. Make sure you've got a good hammer. You're going to play the A as I demonstrated previously. With the D chord you're just going to use these two fingers, the index finger and the second finger, index finger on the second fret of the G string, second finger on the third fret of the B string. And we're going to use the third finger to do the hammer notes. And then when we go to the E, we'll use the index finger on the second fret and use the third finger for the hammer notes. So we'll play the whole progression through. Here it goes. One, two, three, four. "