{"id":9010,"date":"2026-03-15T14:08:18","date_gmt":"2026-03-15T21:08:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/?p=9010"},"modified":"2026-03-15T14:08:18","modified_gmt":"2026-03-15T21:08:18","slug":"execute-hammer-ons-better-or-at-all","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/execute-hammer-ons-better-or-at-all\/","title":{"rendered":"Execute Hammer-Ons Better (or at all!)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of the most critical skills on a guitar is executing &#8220;slurs,&#8221; which take the forms of &#8220;hammer-ons&#8221; or<a href=\"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/pull-offs-on-guitar\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> &#8220;pull-offs,&#8221;<\/a> depending on which way you&#8217;re going (ascending or descending.)<\/p>\n<p>So today let&#8217;s master the hammer-on and make sure it&#8217;s involved with your blues licks, and even your rhythm playing.<\/p>\n<div class=\"video-plugin-new youtube\" style=\"max-width:100%; width:853px; height:auto; padding-top:0; padding-bottom:0; margin:0 auto;margin:0 auto; border: 0px solid #fff;margin-bottom: 20px;\"><div style=\"width:853px;height:0;  padding-bottom: 56.271981242673%; padding-top:0;\"><iframe width=\"853\" height=\"480\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/lICJZB5fows?wmode=opaque&showinfo=0&amp;autoplay=0&amp;controls=1&amp;modestbranding=0&amp;vq=&amp;rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/bguvideos.s3.us-west-1.amazonaws.com\/blogvids\/Hammer-Ons-Lesson.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD THE TAB<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the most critical skills on a guitar is executing &#8220;slurs,&#8221; which take the forms of &#8220;hammer-ons&#8221; or &#8220;pull-offs,&#8221; depending on which way you&#8217;re going (ascending or descending.) So today let&#8217;s master the hammer-on and make sure it&#8217;s involved with your blues licks, and even your rhythm playing. CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD THE TAB<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9011,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9010"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9010"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9010\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9012,"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9010\/revisions\/9012"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9011"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9010"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9010"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9010"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}