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    This document provides tips on using hammer-ons and pull-offs to add complexity and speed to guitar playing. It explains the basic movements of hammer-ons and pull-offs and gives examples of how to incorporate them into rhythms, riffs, and chords. Combining these techniques can help play groups of notes faster and unlock serious speed.

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    This document provides tips on using hammer-ons and pull-offs to add complexity and speed to guitar playing. It explains the basic movements of hammer-ons and pull-offs and gives examples of how to incorporate them into rhythms, riffs, and chords. Combining these techniques can help play groups of notes faster and unlock serious speed.

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    This document provides tips on using hammer-ons and pull-offs to add complexity and speed to guitar playing. It explains the basic movements of hammer-ons and pull-offs and gives examples of how to incorporate them into rhythms, riffs, and chords. Combining these techniques can help play groups of notes faster and unlock serious speed.

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    This document provides tips on using hammer-ons and pull-offs to add complexity and speed to guitar playing. It explains the basic movements of hammer-ons and pull-offs and gives examples of how to incorporate them into rhythms, riffs, and chords. Combining these techniques can help play groups of notes faster and unlock serious speed.

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    To play a pull-off, pluck a string while fretting a note, anC then remove the fretting-hand finger [Example 2]. As you do this, using a siight downward

    from chords that include the extra notes, as in Example 4. D isn't the only chord where this is useful: Example 5 shows a common hammeron that can breathe more life into a G-chord strum. Applying the fifth-string B note just after you've strummed a Gsus2 chord can really help drive the rhythm with a touch

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    pick each individual note, letting you play elaborate-sounding riffs without much difficulty. The simple idea in Example 6 combines hammer-ons and pull-offs in the same pick attack. A rapidly repeating series of two
    notes, as seen here, is called a tril1. By using rnultiple fretted notes in conjunction with open strings [Example 7],you can unlock some serious speed, while simultaneously

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    Does your rhythm playing need an extra kick? As you're strumming chords, hammer-ons and pull-offs can be used to bring additional sounds and textures into your playing. Example 3 shows how you can hammer on (and pull off) notes over a D chord to create suspended chords. The extra notes (E and G) are not part of a normal D chord, but make it sound more interesting (we call these "suspended two" and "suspended four" chords)-particularly during chord progressions that stay on D for a while, or when moving toward or away
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