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Post by vikingblues on Jun 10, 2022 11:50:37 GMT
Anyone know the best technique for making the playing action of going from an open string to a hammer on at a higher fret, produce a sound that is not horrible??? Whenever it appears in a finger-style piece it just destroys any mood that might be on the go with that tinny impact overtone.
There's demo videos I see on line but it's all on electric guitars with a distorted / overdriven sound, so a horrible noise isn't a problem there.
Mark
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Post by ocarolan on Jun 10, 2022 12:20:31 GMT
... simultaneously muting the string with a spare finger a fret or two lower than the hammered on note will kill unwanted resonance from the "dead" end of the string. Takes a bit of working on co-ordination wise, but works reasonably well in achieving a cleaner sounding hammer on, though not always physically possible!
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Post by vikingblues on Jun 11, 2022 9:32:32 GMT
Thanks Keith - that sounds like a good (if tricky!) solution. Cheers. It's not really as issue on the lower frets but up above the 5th fret it's like you hear two notes at once, one of them quite tinny, and they don't harmonise with each other. Anyway I'll see if i can give it a go. My solution till now has just been to pluck the two notes. Mark
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Post by walkingdecay on Jul 9, 2022 0:15:36 GMT
I think I'd just hammer momentarily off the nearest scale tone below, else maybe the 6 or 7 if I was on the 1. This technique falls in the useful area of, "Nobody in the audience knowing what you're trying to do anyway."
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Post by vikingblues on Jul 9, 2022 18:27:25 GMT
I think I'd just hammer momentarily off the nearest scale tone below, else maybe the 6 or 7 if I was on the 1. This technique falls in the useful area of, "Nobody in the audience knowing what you're trying to do anyway." That is a suggestion worth checking out - thanks. I often play notes that aren't in the original (or leave some out) so why not add a fretted note then hammer on just above.
I have tried the method Keith suggested and if I do it in isolation it works more often than not. But to manage in the middle of a piece of music - that'll take a LOT of practice. Do I like lots of practice - of course not I do.
Yes nobody in the audience likely knows, but the trouble is, I suppose, that I do ..... me and my glass half empty.
Mark
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