Useful Hammers,pulls & slides from Chords?

[astrummer]

The thread on "Know this chord?" got me thinking about slides, hammers and pulls from "standard chords". I would appreciate comments as to rules for useful hammers, pulls and slides from chords.

The only thing I do regularly is throw in a grace note while fingerpicking or strumming from the major chord to the sus 2 or sus 4 from the A barre form and for the open form of G and C. Sometimes I'll go from the E to E7 and A to A7 as well.

I suspect alot can be done with the inversions of different chords as well as say sliding from flat 3 to 3 in a minor to major transition. Can someone elaborate? Is there a good overall reference for this? ( books, videos, websites )

[anthonyc007]

My favorite hammer-ons are as follows: (off the top of my head)

C:
0
1
0
0h2
3
x

G:
3
0h1
0
0h2
x
3

F:
1
1
0h2
3
x
1

E:
0
0
0h1
2
2
0

[Bern]

Here are two 'cute' common ones.
A to D to A
X
2 h3 2
2
2 h4 2
0
X

Moing into a D chord
0 h2
3
0 h2
0
X
X

[anthonyc007]

Originally Posted by Bern

X
2 h3 2
2
2 h4 2
0
X

You can do this one all the way up the neck with the A shape barre chord. And something similar with the E shape barre chord.

[astrummer]

Originally Posted by anthonyc007

You can do this one all the way up the neck with the A shape barre chord. And something similar with the E shape barre chord.

I'm not sure I'm reading it right but it seemed the most gymnastic of all the ones listed so far when I tried it. Is it barre 3 with the index and then hammer with middle and ring on the 2nd string 3rd fret and 4th string 4th fret?

[anthonyc007]

Exactly! Sorry for the poor description!

[astrummer]

Originally Posted by anthonyc007

Exactly! Sorry for the poor description!

Actually, I think your description was adequate. I just had to ponder the best position for my hand to make the double hammer work. Thanks to you and Bern so far..... ( More to come from others I hope )

[~j~]

----1-h3---------------------
----0---------3-p1----------
----0---------0--------------
----0---------2--------------
----2---------3--------------
----3---------x--------------

G7->G->C9->C

# or b the 9 for the blues juice


or this kind of stuff, sounds "ringy"

---7--p5-p0----------------
---5------------7---p5--p0-
---6------------6------------
---7------------7------------
------------------------------

It's all about the tension and release, yea?

[Bern]

Originally Posted by ~j~

It's all about the tension and release, yea?

And good timing !

[anthonyc007]

Or try this little A7 riff in a blues song:


--------------------------
---5----7--5------5---5-5-
---5h6--7--5h6p5--6---6-6-
---5----7--5------5---5-5-
0---------------------7-7-
----------------------5-5-

Sorry it dosn't line up, but you get the idea.

[Taylor007]

Originally Posted by anthonyc007

Or try this little A7 riff in a blues song:


--------------------------
---5----7--5------5---5-5-
---5h6--7--5h6p5--6---6-6-
---5----7--5------5---5-5-
0---------------------7-7-
----------------------5-5-

Sorry it dosn't line up, but you get the idea.

i think joe walsh uses a variation of this in "funk 49."

[anthonyc007]

Originally Posted by Taylor007

i think joe walsh uses a variation of this in "funk 49."

You are absoltely correct! Just add E7 and voila! Nice pull!