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    Legato Playing - Step by Step Technique Vol. III

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    This document is the third installment of a three-part tutorial on legato guitar playing technique. It focuses on applying the legato technique to specific riffs, playing them across multiple strings and positions. Exercises are provided to practice playing two riffs horizontally across all string combinations up and down the neck. Mastering these applications and integrating the legato style into the student's own playing is emphasized.

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    This document is the third installment of a three-part tutorial on legato guitar playing technique. It focuses on applying the legato technique to specific riffs, playing them across multiple strings and positions. Exercises are provided to practice playing two riffs horizontally across all string combinations up and down the neck. Mastering these applications and integrating the legato style into the student's own playing is emphasized.

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    Legato Playing 3

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    This document is the third installment of a three-part tutorial on legato guitar playing technique. It focuses on applying the legato technique to specific riffs, playing them across multiple strings and positions. Exercises are provided to practice playing two riffs horizontally across all string combinations up and down the neck. Mastering these applications and integrating the legato style into the student's own playing is emphasized.

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    Legato Playing - Step by Step Technique Vol. III

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    This document is the third installment of a three-part tutorial on legato guitar playing technique. It focuses on applying the legato technique to specific riffs, playing them across multiple strings and positions. Exercises are provided to practice playing two riffs horizontally across all string combinations up and down the neck. Mastering these applications and integrating the legato style into the student's own playing is emphasized.

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    Legato Playing - Step by Step Technique Vol.

    III
    In the third and final section of Hans' tutorial on legato playing, he focuses on specific riffs and the
    horizontal playing of them. If you've been keeping up with this three-part series, and by that I mean
    practicing as well as reading, then you will undoubtedly be getting proficient at this technique.

    Installment #3 out of a series of 3.

    In this last installment on legato technique we will focus on specific applications, riffs if you will, and
    especially the horizontal approach to playing them. I recommend the habitual continuation of the chops-
    establishing exercises of the first two units, while at the same time focussing more and more on making
    music with this approach of playing and on incorporating it in your own accomplishments and ways of
    playing so far.

    Let's get back to Riff 1, which, up until now, you have woodshedded over the full range of the fretboard in
    individual positions. Here, we will focus on two string at a time while moving up and down the neck in a
    horizontal fashion.

    Notice how we are just using strings 1 and 2, going up and all the way down again! Try the same for
    strings 2 + 3:
    After you have mastered those two riff applications, it will be easy to do the same for the remaining four
    string combinations. And REMEMBER: When you feel your muscles of the fretting hand/arm tighten up,
    take a break and start doing this exercise at half the tempo; this will enable you to focus on relaxing and
    playing with as little effort as possible.

    In unit 2 we started on one position for Riff 2. Try the next as follows:
    Just as before with Riff 1, figure out all positions of the neck - eventually in all keys. This time however, you
    won't find all these written out, because you should be able to apply the sequence of Riff 2 to the same
    scale shapes that we have used for Riff 1. Have fun and take your time.

    To proliferate our skills on Riff 2, let's complete the horizontal way of playing here as well - if you haven't
    already:

    Again, work your way through all combinations of two strings, one at a time!

    Finally, it is up to you to work on integrating these concepts in your own playing. Below you will find a
    comprehensive study that combines those two riffs; however, that is just another stepping stone towards
    taking this style of playing to the next level. Play along with music as much as you can and focus on
    playing these lines! After some time of concentrated playing, you will need less and less of premeditated
    focus while approaching the very essence of effortless playing.

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