Hammer on

Shockland · Posted: Sun Nov 02, 2003 4:45 pm Post subject: Hammer on

explain to me what a hammer on is Techinally and musically my dumb bass beginners boook says the following about hammer ons
"hammer ons are uneeded diffucult effect for beginners as to this we will not be explaining this technique" I mean that alone made me ave to know what it is, not to mention all the times I see it in tabs
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Rufio · Posted: Sun Nov 02, 2003 5:53 pm Post subject:

Hammer-ons are when you go from one note to another, both on the same string, without taking your fingers off one of the frets. h is the symbol for hammer-on, so 5h6 on the E string would be playing the 5th fret then without stopping the sound, put another finger on the 6th fret. They're a little bit complicated to explain via internet, but do you get it?
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Shockland · Posted: Sun Nov 02, 2003 7:00 pm Post subject:

I think I get it
lemme try one..
yep it seems I played the death march all the way through with a hammer on not knowing it was called that it juist sounded cool XP
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CaptainSaveAHo · Bear Cub Joined: 10 Jan 2003 Posts: 647

Yups, half the tricks you can figure out on your own as a beginner, you just learn the official names for them later ^_^.

Neil Gray · Posted: Mon Nov 03, 2003 4:26 pm Post subject:

I agree. I went for a scholarship to get into the Institute of Music, and I was packing my pants because I knew I could play, but I didn't know if I could play what they wanted me to.
I watched a guy who auditioned before me, and as they started calling out all these technical terms, I put my bass away!
But then I noticed that he was doing really basic stuff... and doing it quite badly! I got my note book out and started scribbling: arpegio - what you do when you get lost in a 12 bar blues riff... ostinato - baby elephant walk... chromatic scale - anything you like, as long as you start and end on the note the scale is in... etc.
The technical terms confuse the playing. I never get to the middle of a song and think, "gee, a sixteenth note or a dominant seventh followed by the relative minor would really set this refrain off nicely. Maybe then the guitarist will negotiate a nice mode followed by a chromatic seventh.
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