4 LEGATO LICKS
	by Lucas Fagundes

Legato (hammer-on and pull-off) is a way to play lines without picking all of the notes. These are some of my licks that may help you to develop this technique. I believe it’s not an easy task to get fluency on the guitar with a new kind of technique, so I recommend you to practice this with a metronome and making sure the notes are sounding nice and clean.


Lick 1 - Mp3 (Slow) - Mp3 (Fast) - Tab

The first lick includes big left hand stretches, string skipping and right hand tapping. It is in the key of B minor. It would be fully base don the B minor pentatonic scale if we didn’t have the minor 6th (G string, 12th fret) in it. The most difficult part is the descending one, whereas nothing is picked.

Lick 2 - Mp3 (Slow) - Mp3 (Fast) - Tab

The next one is in E dorian. It has patterns that do not change strings.


Lick 3 - Mp3 (Slow) - Mp3 (Fast) - Tab

This is in the key of E dorian as well. You mihjt have some difficulty here when it comes to its fingering. The Whole-Half tone fingering must be played with your first, second and third fingers. This makes it easier to the Whole and a half- whole tone fingering on the next string, which must be played with you first, third and fourth fingers.


Lick 4 - Mp3 (Slow) - Mp3 (Fast) - Tab

3 notes-per-string pattern on an E minor pentatonic, using string skipping.

Hope this lesson will help you develop your legato technique. See you soon!