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→Legato Sliding
If done correctly, a slide should sound different than a hammer-on or pull-off, giving you another option in your legato arsenal.
==Fine-Tuning your Technique==
Legato uses less energy per note than using the pick. This means the notes you are playing are more susceptible to ringing open strings, fretting sounds, or other unwanted noises. Distorted sounds are particularly prone to this - your pure-sounding legato notes (sounds like 'oooooo') clash with dissonant unwanted pitches. This is where excellent right and left-hand muting technique really helps out.
Take a wrist band or a small piece of foam and a rubber band and place it on top of the first 3-4 frets - this will act as a damper. This should completely mute all the open strings, so that if you strum the guitar, you hear a bunch of muffled muted percussive sounds, not anything resembling sustained notes. Now start playing legato phrases on any frets above the damper. It should be quite clean - the only sounds your guitar is making are the notes you are fretting with the left-hand.
Some guitarists will actually grab the neck with their right hand over the first few frets, using their entire palm as a damper like the wrist-band above. This works great for lengthy passages that are completely legato. But in real-life, legato is usually only used for parts of phrases - we won't be able to dedicate our right hand to dampening open strings.
This is where good muting technique comes in handy. You can use the right hand palm (the part nearest the wrist on the pinky-side of the hand) to dampen the thicker strings above the one you're playing. For the thinner strings, you can use the middle, ring, or pinky fingers of your right hand. Since legato involves no picking, this frees up the right hand to do so, albeit quickly and temporarily. For strings adjacent to the one you're playing, you can use the left-hand index finger to rest on them, at least partially. This works even if you are using that finger to fret a note - your finger-tip will fret the string you are playing, while your fingerprint can rest against the next string.
==Putting them Together==