Pull-Offs!

Next up in our exclamation point series is the natural consequence of the Hammer-On!

The Pull-Off is basically the reverse of the Hammer-On principal. Instead of striking a string and hammering up to the next note, a Pull-Off! begins with plucking a fretted note and then pulling the finger off allowing a note below to sound.

Here is what the notated E minor pentatonic scale looks like with pull-offs.

Just like the hammer-on, the pull-off is notated with the slur symbol.

Here is a video of the above example and an overview of the pull-off principal.

For the more advanced or adventurous players, here is a cool double pull-off lick used by Randy Rhoads, the one-time guitarist of Ozzy Osbourne.