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Adding Hammer-Ons to Your Strumming
by Christopher Sung

In the example below, we take our basic G chord and modify the B that's played on the 5th string. When we strum the chord, the B isn't there. It's replaced by the open A string, and we then hammer on at the 2nd fret. The last measure shows how it might sound in a real strumming pattern.

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