Fretting-hand fingering
Many of us are taught the‘finger per fret’technique, where your first finger is assigned to the first fret, your second finger to the second, third to the third, etc. Though this certainly is an efficient way to play, phrases that require greater strength (such as hammer-ons, pull-offs and bends, all definite staples of blues and rock technique) may feel unwieldy using first, third and fourth fingers due to the lack of independence between those third and fourth digits. Stretching across more than four frets would likely mean using first, second and fourth fingers, so no issues there. But staying within a four- fret pattern, most players use first, second and third fingers for the higher strings, only bringing in the fourth for stretching down to the lower ones.…
