Start slow.
No. Slower.
Not yet. SLOWER.
Make sure you’re hammering or pulling off EVERY SINGLE NOTE in time with your metronome. This will be painful at first, and you will think it’s a waste very quickly, because part of your brain will be saying “I can go faster than this ‘most of the time’.”
That’s the trap. That’s the dark side. The path to sloppiness. If you start getting fast without nailing your timing slow, it WILL catch up to you.
No. Slower.
Not yet. SLOWER.
Make sure you’re hammering or pulling off EVERY SINGLE NOTE in time with your metronome. This will be painful at first, and you will think it’s a waste very quickly, because part of your brain will be saying “I can go faster than this ‘most of the time’.”
That’s the trap. That’s the dark side. The path to sloppiness. If you start getting fast without nailing your timing slow, it WILL catch up to you.
have you tried checking out the lessons regarding legato here on the website?
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Jak Angelescu
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Well I think for me is that I get a lot of personal messages from people on the school and on Instagram asking how to do something. And I keep trying to encourage people to take the lessons seriously from the beginning and try not to jump ahead of yourself. 99% of the time I have been asked a question about how to do something, I have asked them if they looked at the lesson that it pertains to on the school. Every single time I get ‘no’ as a response. This school was put here for a Reason and I would like to see the students utilizing the lessons 1st and posting their progress with them before asking questions if they still don’t understand something. I only mean this as an encouraging way to help other students know that these lessons really do help and that there are many answers to their questions inside these lessons 
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Should have went into more detail I’ve watched the lesson on here but the problem is I don’t know what to do I don’t know how to do it if I was going the other way say if I wanted to do 10 8 7 on the high e my fingers get super tired even very slow and it doesn’t ring out or when I change to the next string it doesn’t ring out I tried going on YouTube nothing helps, I’ve been trying for a few weeks I can’t get it I can do it 7 8 10 but I can’t the other way around
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Jak Angelescu
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Well, it would really be helpful if you would upload a video, buddy! It would help us better determine if you are doing it improperly that would cause finger exhaustion. Pulloffs are usually gentle on the fingers, and even for a beginner shouldn’t cause too much strain or tension. When you place your finger on the fret for the string you wish to pull off with (in your example, 10-8-7 on the high E string), make sure you actually push down to sound the note on the 10th fret, and then you actually pull your finger down and off. It’s a subtle pull-down. But most beginners approach pull-offs as simply lifting the finger off the string, resulting in a poor sound quality and improper finger movement, which can cause exhaustion.
Think of it like plucking a string. That’s kind of what you’re doing. Press down on the string on the fret, and then just softly “yank” it off to “pluck” it.
If you’re still confused, upload a quick 20 second video of you doing it (if you can) and we can further help you from there
Think of it like plucking a string. That’s kind of what you’re doing. Press down on the string on the fret, and then just softly “yank” it off to “pluck” it.
If you’re still confused, upload a quick 20 second video of you doing it (if you can) and we can further help you from there
It is mainly finger strength, the key is to be able to sound a note by just pressing your finger on the string and not picking it, hammering on will help improve this as it builds up strength in all your fingers which is useful in lots of techniques, try doing the stretch and replace techniques mentioned in the intro to legato.
Hope this helps in some way \M/
Hope this helps in some way \M/
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