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Something's been bugging me ever since I started getting into playing jazz - I can't seem to pull of those "rolls" as smoothly as I want. I'm not sure what to call it, but say, for crude example, you're in the A pentatonic scale, a typical jazz/blues thing to do is sharpen the D note on the G string with a quick hammer on and pull off followed directly by a slide down to C - but whenever I hear this done it sounds as though there's more involved with it, making it sound like a roll or a flick. Is there some chromatic nuance going on here? String bend followed by pull off?

 

What is it that makes that quick rolling effect? My apologees for not explaining this too well. :confused:

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Originally posted by mattotten

why a slide down to C, why not another pull off, is that it?

 

 

Right, you could do this two ways without sliding....

 

3rd finger G string hammer on to 4th finger pull off to 3rd finger pull off to 1st finger 5th fret...

 

or

 

1st finger g string hammer to second finger pull off to 1st finger pick 4th finger 4th string 10th fret...

 

the second way might be closer to the effect you are thinking of...

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Originally posted by chittypantz



Sweet avatar. Deathtongue / Billy & the Boingers rule!

 

:) lol yeah I'm a boingerhead

 

i like Joe Pass too

 

:thu:

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