The Pull-Off
The pull-off is another popular left hand technique which is used frequently throughout a lick or solo.
The pull-off also produces a note artificially with the left hand. This lime a left hand finger is pulled away from the string after fretting a note. If executed correctly, the action of the left hand finger leaving the string will cause the string to sound.
The following example begins with the note on the third fret, first string. Once this note has been sounded, pull away the finger on the left hand which is playing the note. A curved line and the symbol will indicate when a pull-off is used.
Example 24 begins by playing the note on the seventh fret of the third string with the third finger. Before the third finger is pulled away from the string, it will be necessary to have the first finger fretting the note on the fifth fret. After the finger has been pulled away from the string, the note at the fifth fret is produced.
The examples below feature the use of a pull-off and are played solely within lead guitar pattern one. This time the key of D is used. Lead guitar pattern one in the key of D begins on the tenth fret of the sixth siring (a D note).
The D Minor Pentatonic scale consists of the notes D, F, G, A and C which are the 1, b, 4, 5 and b7 notes of the D Major scale (D E F# G A B C# D).
