Try your hand at a technique used by nearly every player who’s ever played a solo, with our easy legato lesson. “So, ‘legato’. What’s that all about?” We’ve looked at both hammer-ons and pull-offs ...

Guitar lessons: In music, you may well have seen the term ‘legato’. This simply means ‘play smoothly’, which, on the guitar, generally means using hammer-ons and pull-offs to get the job done.