help with shady grove?

[tenaciousflea]

Hi. I'm just a beginner guitar player. I've come up with a carter style solo for Shady Grove in C (not the minor version) but it is sounding very basic. Any ideas on where I can put some hammer-ons, pull-offs, or slides to my notes below in the tab to make it sound a bit cooler? Those triangles in the tab are just my way of writing that it's a strum that goes there. Thanks for any help!

[stanron]

You already have one opportunity for a hammer on in the final bar. You can hammer on from the 0 to the 2. It looks like everything else can be played with down strokes only so keeping with that, try this;

E╓────────────────────┬─────────────────────┬─────────────────────┬────────────────────┐
B╟────────────────────┼─────────────────────┼─────────────────────┼────────────────────┤
G╟─────S───S────────S─┼───S──────────S────S─┼─────S───S─────────S─┼─────────────S────S─┤
D╟─0h2────────────────┼──────────0h2────────┼─0h2─────────────────┼─────0h2 0 ─────────┤
A╟───────3──0h3─0─────┼──────0─3────────────┼───────3───3p2─0─────┼───3───────3───3────┤
E╙────────────────3───┴─3───────────────3───┴─────────────────3───┴─3──────────────────┘

S = strum
H = hammer on
p = pull off

[tenaciousflea]

@stanron Amazing! Thank you so much!

[Ten]

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