Danny Grady: Let's take a look at some basic pull-offs technique. The concept with pull-offs is the same as hammer-ons. It's a different sound than if you were to pick the notes individually. Here, I'll pick a little three note phrase, and that's what I am looking to picking every single note. Now, when I start using pull-offs. It gives you a different sound than picking the notes individually and that can either be more fluid or more aggressive depending on how you utilize it.
For most of us, we utilize hammer-ons and pull-offs together, so that we can utilize the full speed of our fretting hand to make a sound faster more aggressive and more fluid. So let's take a look at some basic technique. When you are first attempting to do pull-offs, the best place to do it is in the open position before you attempt to do fret to fret pull-offs.
So we will try here on the third string second fret. Take the tip of your first finger and put it on the second fret, pick the note. You want to pick it hard, you want to give yourself a lot of sustain, a lot of vibration to work with, and then with the tip of your first finger, you want to just kind of literally pull it off of the string almost like you are picking the string again with the tip of your first finger.
To eliminate those, open strings ringing beneath it. You want to just take the tip of your first finger; you will notice I am stopping on the string beneath it. I am using the second string almost as a guide string to let me know when to stop. That prevents my first finger from leaving the area little too much, where I would have to travel a long distance to bring it back to finish at any lick and another thing is just barely touching that second string prevents it from ringing out.
Alex Lifeson: Hi, this is Alex Lifeson of Rush and today, we are going to work on the Spirit of Radio. It starts at the F sharp which is the second fret on the high E string and it's --
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