How to Play Pull-Offs
beginner guitar
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There are some lessons on this site that are absolutely integral to playing your instrument, and this is one of them! I answer all your questions about this foundational guitar technique, then we learn several exercises and a great lick to put our pull-offs into practice!
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Curtis Rhodes ·
Question on the tab — is that a hammer-on or a slide going into the B part? Sounds like a slide to my ear but the tab reads hammer.
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Karen Doyle ·
Metronome at 60 and no faster until it's clean twice through. Boring but it works.
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Katie Clark Support ·
Memorization comes from playing it at a tempo you can think at. If you need the tab, you're playing it faster than you know it.