Combining Electric Guitar Techniques: Part 2

Video Transcript

"Hi, this is Tom. This is for expertvillage.com. We're talking about shortcuts for playing the electric guitar for rock and roll. And I want to take those tricks we've talked about--bending strings, hammering on, pulling off, and trying to put them together--and sliding up. So, what we could do is put a pattern together so that you get used to doing mixing and matching with that. So I could for instance slide up and play the next note. There's your hammer on. Okay, so slide up and play, hammer on, hammer on, hammer on, and then I'm going to play it and bend it. So we'll try that exercise again. I'm sliding out, playing the note, hammer on, hammer on, play both notes, and bending the notes. And there's another slide, and another bend if you want up there. So let's do that for the whole pattern, because that combines a couple of examples of each one. So I slide, hammer. And all I'm doing is just extending that pentatonic scale to those notes. One more time. And I'm alternating with my pick. So practice that back and forth and you'll get some speed. Actually, I should tell you that too at the end--here's another thing, just wiggling a note at the end of a lead, just to give it a little bit more color. For vibrato."