# Videogame-inspired hard rock? Hammer-ons and pull-offs? I got ya covered!
**URL:** https://forum.troygrady.com/t/videogame-inspired-hard-rock-hammer-ons-and-pull-offs-i-got-ya-covered/84241
**Category:** Show and Tell
**Created:** [January 7, 2025, 3:50pm UTC](https://forum.troygrady.com/t/videogame-inspired-hard-rock-hammer-ons-and-pull-offs-i-got-ya-covered/84241 "2025-01-07T15:50:59Z")
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### Author:  [@tommo](https://forum.troygrady.com/u/tommo)
#### Post date: [January 7, 2025, 3:50pm UTC](https://forum.troygrady.com/t/videogame-inspired-hard-rock-hammer-ons-and-pull-offs-i-got-ya-covered/84241/1 "2025-01-07T15:50:59Z")
Hey all,
After working on my picking for so long (to the point that now it’s even my job 🙂 ), In the last few months I thought that it would be nice to do some noodling based on hammer-ons and pull-offs instead!
So, I wrote and recorded a track for it! Gotta admit my legato skills were a bit rusty, so I ended up recording the faster sections separately (yes, another option would be to practice, but who has time for that!). The ending of the solo in particular took quite a few attempts! Other than that, the lead guitar is mostly recorded as long takes where I cherry-picked and combined the better executed bits.
I did not film the recording of the harmony & rhythm parts this time because, again, time 😃
You’ll see that, at their core, the faster licks are a combination of the usual Yngwie/Gilbert-style patterns with a string skip or tapped note here and there to add some spice.
I got a good internet friend to program the drums for me, and then attempted to do my own mixing. This is where I decided to aband…ehrm complete the project 😉
Here’s the video, tabs and shortly I’ll share a backing track too:
[ ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L7xyQhi_oGo)
[https://www.soundslice.com/slices/vMbRc/](https://www.soundslice.com/slices/vMbRc/)
EDIT: here’s a quick render of a backing track (I didn’t check it super carefully so let me know if it’s got any issues). I included a count-in so you can more easily line it up with a click track if needed.
[/uploads/default/original/2X/8/8fa15bc9a4f4793a7045fa2789444c7e20d9ada3.mp3](https://forum.troygrady.com/uploads/default/original/2X/8/8fa15bc9a4f4793a7045fa2789444c7e20d9ada3.mp3)
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### Author:  [@joebegly](https://forum.troygrady.com/u/joebegly)
#### Post date: [January 7, 2025, 4:17pm UTC](https://forum.troygrady.com/t/videogame-inspired-hard-rock-hammer-ons-and-pull-offs-i-got-ya-covered/84241/2 "2025-01-07T16:17:34Z")
As we all know, “legato is morally inferior to picking all the notes” (bonus points if you know the reference of that loose quote). That said…well done on this 🙂 Sounds nice and even. Smooth yet articulate. Not the “mushy” kind of legato that is _actually_ morally inferior lol
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### Author:  [@tommo](https://forum.troygrady.com/u/tommo)
#### Post date: [January 7, 2025, 4:22pm UTC](https://forum.troygrady.com/t/videogame-inspired-hard-rock-hammer-ons-and-pull-offs-i-got-ya-covered/84241/3 "2025-01-07T16:22:20Z")
Well, some people on the internet might still want to arrest me because I didn’t do “hammers only” 😉
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### Author:  [@joebegly](https://forum.troygrady.com/u/joebegly)
#### Post date: [January 7, 2025, 4:23pm UTC](https://forum.troygrady.com/t/videogame-inspired-hard-rock-hammer-ons-and-pull-offs-i-got-ya-covered/84241/4 "2025-01-07T16:23:23Z")
Ah yes. The “least immoral” of all legato has got to be the hammers only approach. Maybe tackle that next haha
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### Author:  [@Scottulus](https://forum.troygrady.com/u/Scottulus)
#### Post date: [January 9, 2025, 3:57am UTC](https://forum.troygrady.com/t/videogame-inspired-hard-rock-hammer-ons-and-pull-offs-i-got-ya-covered/84241/5 "2025-01-09T03:57:31Z")
Awesome. Just jammed to this, thanks Tommo. Good fun!
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### Author:  [@tommo](https://forum.troygrady.com/u/tommo)
#### Post date: [January 9, 2025, 9:01am UTC](https://forum.troygrady.com/t/videogame-inspired-hard-rock-hammer-ons-and-pull-offs-i-got-ya-covered/84241/6 "2025-01-09T09:01:01Z")
> [@Scottulus](#):
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> Just jammed to this
Awesome, that’s what I like to hear 🙂
Actually i’d be very curious to hear what you came up with! But obviously no obligation;-)
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### Author:  [@SomeAverageJoe](https://forum.troygrady.com/u/SomeAverageJoe)
#### Post date: [January 9, 2025, 2:15pm UTC](https://forum.troygrady.com/t/videogame-inspired-hard-rock-hammer-ons-and-pull-offs-i-got-ya-covered/84241/7 "2025-01-09T14:15:00Z")
This is a cool track, Tommo. I also laughed and thought to myself “what happened to ‘_strict alternate picking is the morally superior approach_’”? (And fwiw, I’m still working through the Metronomic Rock Seminar. It’s a great one). I love, love, LOVE what some people call “video game music”. In fact, whenever I listen to the Joe Satriani song “The Elephants of Mars”, my youngest son (14) almost always comments about it being “Final Boss Battle Music”. I hope you keep posting your stuff here. It’s awesome to hear what the experts come up with. Back to the woodshed for me!
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### Author:  [@tommo](https://forum.troygrady.com/u/tommo)
#### Post date: [January 9, 2025, 4:20pm UTC](https://forum.troygrady.com/t/videogame-inspired-hard-rock-hammer-ons-and-pull-offs-i-got-ya-covered/84241/8 "2025-01-09T16:20:18Z")
> [@SomeAverageJoe](#):
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> It’s awesome to hear what the experts come up with. Back to the woodshed for me!
Back to the woodshed for all of us — but the important thing is that we don’t just spend all our life in the woodshed, and also make music with whatever tools we have at the moment 🙂
In fact, I don’t consider myself an expert when it comes to legato playing - but I am definitely quite good at a few basic patterns and I try to squeeze all I can out of them. This piece was, among other things, a sort of excuse to get a bit deeper into the technique.
This has been my approach to “woodshedding” in recent years due to much reduced practice time. Every sort of technique that I want to “practice”, I try to write a piece of music around it!