How to Add Hammer Ons to a Guitar Progression

"I'm Rick Tobey, on behalf of Expert Village and this is Blues Progressions Part Two. Now you can embellish this A progression where you're playing it open, and open means that you have open strings in the chords. You can embellish it by adding what's called a hammer note. That's where you would hit the string, hit the note, and then you would take a finger and just hammer it. So the technique would be to, it's always nice to kind of mute these strings with your fleshy part of the right hand with the pick right above the bridge and you get that kind of muffled sound, and then you would strike the string. You would play, you could play like most of the strings in the chord, and then you would hammer with the third finger on the D string at the fourth fret. So you can practice that for awhile. Now, when it comes to the D chord, you can play a regular D chord which would go like this. And you would use your little finger, hitting it on the fourth fret of the G string. And then on the E, there's another way to play the E chord, where you can just play it like this, with the index finger on the second fret of the A and the D string and not play the rest of it but just stay up to the top. Using the third finger on the fourth fret of the A string, then back to the A. So the next section, we will put all that together."