How to Play Lead Guitar: Pull Offs

A Pull off is where you put your finger on a fret on any given string. You can hit it once with your pick and get a second note by pulling-off. (Music Playing) See what I am doing; now watch my left hand carefully. It is not a lift-off. Because some people just this and they just strike on like that. (Music Playing) Like that. That is lifting off the string and you do not get any hoot spa. Which you need to do is pull away like this. (Music Playing) That was maybe a little too much by English but you just want to pull away from you like this. (Music Playing) If you do not feel that string kind of digging into your fingers you are not doing it right. (Music Playing) Try to get a nice even sound, like that. So, in Pull off’s are neat because you can really get going fast and you do not have to do any work with your right hand. So, case in point is key member on the E-Minor, Pentatonic Scale. You got (Music Playing) So you have these adjacent notes here and watch this, you can do Pull off’s on each one like this (Music Playing) Like that (Music Playing) So, that is how when you see metal bands and the guitar players going crazy with that. (Music Playing) Like that so those are Pull off’s. Alright, here is Pull-off with number two. This time we are going to right down the scale starting here remember the scales those. - (Music Playing) What was used that to our advantage we got. Again, pulling-off on all those second frets.