Hammer-ons!

The Hammer-on technique is prized by guitarists because it can help them play fluid connected, lines without resorting to a lot of extra picking.

Basically a hammer-on is exactly what it sounds like. You "hammer" a note "on" to the neck of the guitar with your fretting hand instead of plucking a fretted note with your pick.

This technique takes a little while to get used to but has many applications and can create flashy scale passages across the neck of the guitar.

Here is our E minor pentatonic scale played with hammer-ons. The notation symbol for the hammer-on is a line called a slur which connects the notes involved in the "hammer"

Here is a quick video that demonstrates the hammer-on technique using the E minor pentatonic scale that we have been studying.