Guitar Slurs: Hammer Ons
What is a hammeron?
Hammer ons are another cool guitar technique that flavors your guitar playing.
A hammer on is when you play a note. Then you use another finger on your playing hand, hammering down onto another note on the same string (usually 1, 2 or 3 frets up the string) without actually picking it with your picking hand. DOING THEM IS A LOT EASIER THAN EXPLAINING WHAT THEY ARE. : ^ )
| Hammeron 1 | Hammeron 2 |
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| Hammeron Riff Slow | Hammeron Riff Fast |
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More Hammeron tab exercises
Hammer tabs: exercise 1
|---------------------1h2-2h3-----------------------------------------| |-----------------1h2---------2h3---------------------------------3h4-| |-------------1h2-----------------2h3-------------------------3h4-----| |---------1h2-------------------------2h3-----------------3h4---------| |-----1h2---------------------------------2h3---------3h4-------------| |-1h2-----------------------------------------2h3-3h4-----------------| |-3h4-4h5-----------------------------------------5h6-6h7---------------| |---------4h5---------------------------------5h6---------6h7-----------| |-------------4h5-------------------------5h6-----------------6h7-------| |-----------------4h5-----------------5h6-------------------------6h7---| |---------------------4h5---------5h6---------------------------------6-| |-------------------------4h5-5h6---------------------------------------|
- Hammer on with the index to middle finger (i to m) ... go up and down
- Hammer on with the middle to ringe finger (m to a)... go up and down
- Hammer on with the ring to pinky finger (a to x)... go up and down
Hammer tabs: exercise 2
|---------------------1h3-2h5-----------------------------------------| |-----------------1h2---------2h4---------------------------------3h4-| |-------------1h3-----------------2h3-------------------------3h5-----| |---------1h4-------------------------2h4-----------------3h6---------| |-----1h3---------------------------------2h5---------3h5-------------| |-1h2-----------------------------------------2h4-3h4-----------------| |-3h5-4h7-----------------------------------------5h7-6h7---------------| |---------4h6---------------------------------5h6---------6h8-----------| |-------------4h5-------------------------5h7-----------------6h9-------| |-----------------4h6-----------------5h8-------------------------6h8---| |---------------------4h7---------5h7---------------------------------6-| |-------------------------4h6-5h6---------------------------------------|
- Hammer on with the index to middle finger (i to m)
- Hammer on with the index to ring finger (i to a)
- Hammer on with the index to pinky finger (i to x)... go up and down
Hammer tabs: exercise 3
|---------------------2h4-2h4-----------------------------------------| |-----------------1h3---------3h5---------------------------------3h5-| |-------------2h4-----------------2h4-------------------------4h6-----| |---------1h3-------------------------3h5-----------------3h5---------| |-----2h4---------------------------------2h4---------4h6-------------| |-1h3-----------------------------------------3h5-3h5-----------------| |-4h6-4h6-----------------------------------------6h8-6h8---------------| |---------5h7---------------------------------5h7---------7h9-----------| |-------------4h6-------------------------6h8-----------------6h8-------| |-----------------5h7-----------------5h7-------------------------7h9---| |---------------------4h6---------6h8---------------------------------6-| |-------------------------5h7-5h7---------------------------------------|
- Hammer on with the index to middle finger (i to m)
- Hammer on with the middle to pinky finger (m to xa)... go up and down
Hammer tabs: exercise 4
|-------------------------------------------------------------1h2h4-1h=| |-------------------------------------------------1h2h4-1h3h4----------| |-------------------------------------1h2h4-1h3h4----------------------| |-------------------------1h2h4-1h3h4----------------------------------| |-------------1h2h4-1h3h4----------------------------------------------| |-1h2h4-1h3h4----------------------------------------------------------| |-3h4-------------------------------------------------------------------| |-----1h2h4-1h3h4-1h2h4-1h3h4-------------------------------------------| |-----------------------------1h2h4-1h3h4-------------------------------| |-----------------------------------------1h2h4-1h3h4-------------------| |-----------------------------------------------------1h2h4-1h3h4-------| |-----------------------------------------------------------------1h2h4-|
- Hammer on with the index to middle to pinky finger (i to m to x)
- Hammer on with the index to ring finger to pinky finger (i to a to x)... go up and down