Hammer-on
Hammer-on or hammering (German binding ) refers to a common playing technique for guitarists , and more rarely for strings or ukulele players. With hammer-on, a higher tone than the one that is already sounding is generated by gripping ("hammering") a finger of the grasping hand on the already vibrating string with strong impulses. The hammer-on can be an embellishment technique because many grace notes are performed with it. But it can also be a stylistic device, because the fact that the string does not have to be struck in order to produce a tone enables tied legato and often faster playing (especially in connection with trigger bindings, also called pull-off) . In the specialist literature, hammering is usually referred to by the English name hammer-on (and is somewhat abbreviated to H in the notation and shown with a slur from the lower to the higher tone).
A modified form is tapping , in which the tone is usually generated on a string that is at rest. This can be done with each finger of the gripping or striking hand, for example as a "right finger hammer-on".
See also
literature
- Paul Howard: Guitar Roots: Bluegrass . Alfred Music Publishing, 2002, ISBN 978-0-7390-2465-2 , pp. 12 ff . ( Google Books ).
- Mark Phillips: guitar for dummies . Publisher John Wiley & Sons, 2013, ISBN 978-3-527-70999-1 , pp. 141 ff . ( Google Books ).
- Wieland Harms: The Unplugged Guitar Book. 20 of the most beautiful songs for acoustic guitar. Gerig Music, ISBN 3-87252-249-3 , p. 112 ( notation symbols ).