Guitar Basics: Spice Up Your Open Chords with Hammer-ons and Pull-offs

In this lesson from the magazine’s Basics department, Senior Editor Jeffrey Pepper Rodgers teaches how to add hammer-ons and pull-offs to basic open shapes to make your accompaniment work sound more vibrant and interesting. You can play along using the notation in the July/August 2024 issue, available at store.acousticguitar.com.

[@Rossmelanson]

Great lesson!!

[@DeeveOnYT]

JPR consistently delivers quality content - thanks

[@sheilastyrebriere]

Such a gift to have these little lessons on KZbin! When I started out, I was gifted a “Sears Special” and a Mel Bay book for Christmas when I was 10! Action so high for my tiny fingers 😂, and what became a fabulous way to learn to play by ear later on. Self taught with my grandmother teaching me basic chords and old Gospel tunes when we’d visit. What I would have given for the I internet back then!! Great content🤗

[@wdrexler]

Great lesson, Jeffrey. Thanks so much. It's fun to integrate these hammer ons and pull offs into chord progressions.

[@jasper_north]

Wow! Love your hair also… I learn alot from this channel man!

[@jonathanfinks8019]

Fantastic session! Thanks!

[@ericwomack4736]

Great lesson! And it can add so much to any song!

[@dustyj4204]

Not acoustic but always thought Hendrix was a master at playing around chord shapes. Single note lead notes but always falling back to a chord shape, in some form. Some songs are just best kept simple with chords, wether intro, outro, and between. Great lesson!

[@AcousticGuitarMag]

Follow along with the TAB and notation here: acousticguitar.com/decorating-open-chords-with-hammer-ons-and-pull-offs/