The Hammer - Attack (<span style="font-size:70%">Indicated by HA</span>)

Lesson 2/21 | Study Time: 5 Min
Course: Tapping Technique for Bass
The Hammer - Attack (<span style="font-size:70%">Indicated by HA</span>)

The Hammer - Attack (Indicated by HA)

Using the index finger of your left hand. Strike the fretboard (e.g., just behind 3rd fret of the A string, C note) using enough force so that a note is sounded. The note is not picked with the right hand. The sound is created only by the left hand finger hitting the string onto the fretboard. This is called a Hammer - Attack.

Any left hand finger can be used for a Hammer - Attack. Try the previous exercise using your second, third and little finger to sound the note.

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Class Sessions

1- Different Chord Progressions 2- INTRODUCTION 3- The Hammer - Attack (<span style="font-size:70%">Indicated by HA</span>) 4- Tuning Your Instrument 5- Lift off (Indicated as L) 6- The Hammer - On <span style="font-size:70%">(Indicated by H)</span> 7- II - V Progressions in Semitones 8- The Cross - Hammer 9- Using a Metronome 10- The Tapping Technique (right hand) (Indicated <span class="symbolB">L</span> ) 11- II - V Progressions in Tones 12- Notation 13- Interval Shapes 14- Accidentals 15- Prelude 16- Crystal Well 17- The Slide (Indicated S and or /) 18- Tapping / Hammering Mixed 19- Bouree 20- Triads 21- Arpeggios Over Two Octaves

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