PART SEVEN LEFT-HAND TECHNIQUE–LEGATO

In Part Six, we talked about using our 12-bar blues pattern and integrating some picked notes from the minor pentatonic scale. Now that we’re familiar with some of the notes we can use, it’s time to look at some fretting-hand techniques we can start to apply to enhance the notes we’re playing.

The following techniques we’re going to discuss all fall into an overarching concept called legato. Legato is an Italian term which translates to “tied together”. This