How to play Pull-offs
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Guitar Pull-offs
Playing pull-offs and hammer-ons are a huge part of my style of playing. In this lesson, I'm showing a few ideas of how you can use pull-offs to play through the E minor pentatonic scale (in one position). I use this technique all the time when I play.
For me, this technique is so much easier than alternate picking, and I also prefer the sound of using this technique. Alternate picking can sound very robotic at times, and using pull-offs and hammer-ons open up the sound much more, at least to my ears. Plus, I really suck at alternate picking... there you have it!
By the way, I will cover hammer-ons in a future lesson.
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Comments on this video lesson:
Nice to see a new clip.........thought your were toast there for a while!
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