Playing Legato

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Instructor: Pavel Denisjuk Level: Beginner Topic: Technique Style: Any Style

Excerpt: Hey there IG guitar players, Let's start working on a very useful technique called legato. After you watch the video explanation, let's once more review the important parts of legato: 1. bring the wrist forward to obtain the optimal position for your fingers 2. remember to keep your thumb at least in the middle of the neck 3. hit the strings with the tip...

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Instructor: Pavel Denisjuk Level: Beginner Topic: Technique Style: Any Style

Excerpt: In the previous lesson we worked on moving our fingers totally separately from each other. In this one will work on getting your fingers to work in linear sequence. The difference is that in this exercise the loudness of the next note depends on how good you do the pull-off and hammer-on. In the previous lesson the loudness of the note played depended comple...

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Instructor: Pavel Denisjuk Level: Beginner Topic: Technique Style: Any Style

Excerpt: Ok, it's now time to move from single string exercises and have a bigger bite. :) 2 strings exercises are more difficult as you now have to watch carefully what you mute and what you pick so here it is step by step: 1. as we need some "starting power" we pick the first note. 2. now we play the next 2 notes legato (with pull-offs) 3. here we have to move ...

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Instructor: Pavel Denisjuk Level: Beginner Topic: Technique Style: Any Style

Excerpt: OK, remember the first legato lesson? Well, now we'll use that same exercise and play it on 2 strings which will make it way more difficult. First of all, I want to turn your attention to tabs: in the tab you can only see each sequence repeated twice while in the video I play it 4 times. I did it on purpose so you don't think that there is a lot of notes to...

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Instructor: Pavel Denisjuk Level: Beginner Topic: Technique Style: Any Style

Excerpt: Here we go - 3 strings legato exercise. As you can see, we involve a few pickstrokes here and there. These are unavoidable as we move between strings a lot and we only use picks when we are playing ascending runs as it is hard to hammer-on the next string on ascending run without making lots of noise. Here you'll find all the same tricks from our previous ...

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