Greg Howe: premier guitar column III

Hammer-ons From Nowhere (HFN) is a term I came up with a long time ago in order to provide students with tab notation that described the idea of hammering on to a string that was not previously fretted. Most of us are quite familiar with the term hammer-on, which is of course a technique performed by forcefully bringing a fretting-hand finger onto a string that was previously fretted or previously sounded in order to execute a new note without having to simultaneously pick it. A typical hammer-on will always be higher in pitch than the note that preceded it, however with HFN, this is not necessarily the case.
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