The Pull-Off

Lesson 2/62 | Study Time: 5 Min
Course: Rock Guitar Technique
The Pull-Off

The Pull-Off

The pull-off is another popular left hand technique which is used frequently throughout a lick or solo.

The pull-off also produces a note artificially with the left hand. This lime a left hand finger is pulled away from the string after fretting a note. If executed correctly, the action of the left hand finger leaving the string will cause the string to sound.

The following example begins with the note on the third fret, first string. Once this note has been sounded, pull away the finger on the left hand which is playing the note. A curved line and the symbol will indicate when a pull-off is used.

Example 24 begins by playing the note on the seventh fret of the third string with the third finger. Before the third finger is pulled away from the string, it will be necessary to have the first finger fretting the note on the fifth fret. After the finger has been pulled away from the string, the note at the fifth fret is produced.

The examples below feature the use of a pull-off and are played solely within lead guitar pattern one. This time the key of D is used. Lead guitar pattern one in the key of D begins on the tenth fret of the sixth siring (a D note).

The D Minor Pentatonic scale consists of the notes D, F, G, A and C which are the 1, b, 4, 5 and b7 notes of the D Major scale (D E F# G A B C# D).

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1- Minor Bar Chord 2- Root Five Bar Chord Progressions 3- Seventh Bar Chords 4- Lead Guitar Pattern Two 5- Root Five Bar Chords 6- Master Class No. 1 7- The Bend 8- Master Class No. 2 9- Advanced Strumming Techniques 10- The Slide 11- The Pull-Off 12- The Hammer 13- Advanced Bar Chords 14- Advanced Lead Guitar Techniques 15- Lead Guitar Solos 16- The Staff 17- INTRODUCTION 18- Lead Guitar Patterns 19- Bar Chord Chart 20- The Bar Chord 21- Notes in the Open Position 22- Bar Chord Progressions 23- Lead Guitar Patterns 24- Tuning to the Cassette or CD 25- Master Class No. 3 26- Lead Guitar Licks 27- Electronic Guitar Tuner 28- Left Hand Damping 29- Double-Note Licks 30- Notes 31- Lead Guitar Licks - Pattern Two 32- Sharps and Flats 33- Seventh Bar Chord - Root Six 34- Chord Diagrams 35- Root Six Major Bar Chord 36- Root Five Major Bar Chord 37- The Release Bend 38- The Ascending Slide 39- Changing Bar Chords 40- Notes on the Sixth String 41- Minor Pentatonic Scale 42- Fretboard Position 43- Keys 44- Scale Diagrams 45- The Chromatic Scale 46- Note Values 47- Left Hand Technique 48- Tuning the Guitar to Itself 49- Vibrato 50- Minor Bar Chord Progressions 51- Staccato Strum 52- The Descending Slide 53- Seventh Bar Chord - Root Five 54- Root Five Minor Bar Chord 55- Notes on the Fifth String 56- Notes on the Sixth String 57- The Valued Slide 58- The Tie 59- Alternative Fingerings 60- Tablature 61- Time Signatures 62- Tablature Symbols Used In This Book

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