Guitar Techniques

ExAmplE Bon IVeR style

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[Bar 20] Here the bar is extended to accommodat­e the fills. It’s not too tricky but you’ll need to keep an eye on where you are so you can come back in on the ‘1’ in the following bar. [Bar 31] The grace note hammer- on just before the C/E chord can be a hard device to master. The open fourth string D should only sound for the briefest time possible before you hammer on to the 2nd fret and simultaneo­usly strum the chord. Grace notes can be tricky to get sounding intuitive, and are a common feature to many a singer-songwriter’s playing.

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