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- noun A
stringed instrument playingtechnique performed (especially onguitar ) by sharply bringing a fretting-hand finger down on thefingerboard behind afret , causing anote to sound.
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Examples
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Ms. Stern's furious hammer-on guitar technique evokes the most macho of hard-rock heroes like Eddie Van Halen.
Shredding the Definition of the Guitar Hero Andy Beta 2010
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Marnie Stern's guitar style ostensibly draws on the hyper-masculine tradition of shredders like Eddie Van Halen and AC/DC's Angus Young, with an onslaught of hammer-on notes.
Rocking the Mic Andy Beta 2011
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A knockout blonde with a hammer-on guitar technique cribbed not from frizzed metalheads but underrated post-rockers, she sings conscientious brain-teasers about crippled jazzers and pushing sonic envelopes?
Wired Top Stories 2009
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Add or subtract personalized bits, a trill here, a slide or hammer-on or -off there, and then play it every day.
Guitar Progess, Sorta Steve Perry 2007
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Don't sound all that great by the samples, and their site really doesn't show how it's really played: strummed, or is it a hammer-on machine like the Clav?
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Slightly enter all tenons into mortises successively first and then hammer-on the runner tightly.
Chapter 8 Rolf Becher 1993
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- Plug mortises on tenons from the left end of the runner and hammer-on the runner.
Chapter 8 Rolf Becher 1993
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A hammer-on is done when one note is ringing out and you put your finger down higher up the fretboard to play a higher note.
EzineArticles 2010
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- The exact opposite as a hammer-on, slightly harder
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Thunderstruck comes in with the telltale hammer-on/pull-off piece then with heavy guitar/sax duology.
Latest reviews @ Progarchives.com, the ultimate progressive rock music website 2010
hernesheir commented on the word hammer-on
Common banjo noting technique.
October 12, 2009
hernesheir commented on the word hammer-on
Common noting technique employed by those that play guitar, banjo, fiddle, and other stringed instruments.
June 10, 2010