Legato workout

1. What is a legato technique?
2. What is a legato scale?
3. How do I get faster at legato?
4. What is a legato lick?

What is a legato technique?

Legato is a musical performance technique that produces fluid, continuous motion between notes. Each individual note is played to its maximum duration and then blends directly into whatever note follows. Legato notes are often slurred; that is, a group of notes is played together in one down-bow or up-bow.

What is a legato scale?

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.

How do I get faster at legato?

Legato describes the collection of techniques used to change between notes in a quicker, more expressive way. These include hammer-ons, pull-offs and slides.
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Five Quick Legato Tips

1. 1 - Scale It Up! ...
2. 2 - Don't Pay Attention! ...
3. 3 - Speed Up and Slow Down! ...
4. 4 - Do Finger Exercises. ...
5. 5 - Try It Both Ways!

What is a legato lick?

This lick uses the E Natural Minor scale, and uses a lot of hammer-ons and pull-offs. This is to be expected, because the term legato in music means to play the notes very smoothly with no audible gaps between them.