Legato

Legato is Italian meaning tied together. In music this means notes flow smoothly together.

Legato” is an Italian word which means “smoothly,” so the techniques are essentially ways to change between notes more smoothly.

Two distinct ways of articulating notes.

Learn to develop this important technique.

Hans Fahling returns with the first in a series of three articles, each designed to help you get better at playing faster by means of starting slowly.

In music performance and notation, legato [leˈɡaːto] (Italian for "tied together"; French lié; German gebunden) indicates that musical notes are played or sung smoothly and connected. That is, the player makes a transition from note to note with no intervening silence.

Learn how to play the legato guitar.

Watch this video to find out how to massively improve your legato technique on guitar.

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In this bite-sized lesson, Joe Satriani provides some useful exercises for improving your legato technique.

Techniques for playing fast legato.

Develop a smoother sound and strengthen your fretting hand with Allen Hinds' look at all things legato.

Legato means smoothly, and with less picking the sound is smoother. The technique we are checking out today is using hammer on's and flick off's to play your scales. Makes your fingers stronger and scales faster. Excellent!

In todays lesson we are going to be taking an in-depth look at another of the guitar worlds most fundamental and crucial playing techniques, legato. Legato is another one of those techniques that most guitar player think they have down pat, but it has so many crucial elements to take into consideration that even good guitar players over look them sometimes. It's one of those iceberg techniques, it doesn’t look like much on the surface but underneath theres a whole lot going on.