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Legato [and I don't mean a Spanish cat]

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What's up cats? This next installment is brought to you by coffee. Coffee got me out of bed today and it'll keep me up tonight. Lucid and free is the legato technique. It provides fluidity to melodic runs which accentuates the playful and deepens one's sorrow. The technique is achieved on the guitar by slurring between notes via hammer-ons, pull-offs, bending, sliding, or belching. Well, minus the belching part. In the first example, pick the first note of each trip....

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