How do you Hammer?

[MooMooMan]

I started playing at christmas last year and have learnt how to slap and pop and can play most metallica but i now want to play some Korn and its full of hammers. How do you Hammer?

[Bruce Lindfield]

"Korn is full of Hammers" - hmmm, do you think this is a phrase or euphemism, along the lines of "This is a load of cobblers" or "This is full of ****"?

In Wagner's Ring cycle, there are hammers used to hit anvils in the scenes depicting the "Niebelungen Horde" - this could well describe some of the bands people have been mentioning around here!

[Davidoc]

You push your fretting finger against the fingerboard where you want the note to sound, but don't pluck it with your playing hand; to play F on the E-string, just fret the first fret (if playing s fretted), but don't touch it with your playing hand.

[MooMooMan]

Cheers.

[jackaroe]

are u supposed to fret it with force, or fret it naturally but dont strick the string?

[Fishbrain]

when i play korn most of the notes are slapped then hammered. so say u were on the E string and u fret a F (first fret) slap it, then push another finger onto the G (third fret) with out using ur right hand