Pull-Offs/Slurs - Beginner Guitar Lesson

Lesson Taught BY: Carl Brown

[kiiturii]

Finally a video where they don't just say "then you pull off" and don't elaborate further

[benearhart]

The reason I'm here is that I figured out if you simply lift your finger very quickly the second note does not sound good. It's not so much volume that's the problem (especially if you are have a lot of distortion). What happens is that you get what are essentially faint pinch harmonics on the second note. They occur during the short period of the time where the string is not fretted but your fingertip is still expanding from being lifted and maintains contact with the string.
I found that the plucking pull-off cleans up the sound a lot.

[Americanspy-hnkw]

Carl you are the best guitar teacher man
I'm usually a hands on learner and I'm kinda slow to learn new things but you make it so easy
Thanks a lot

[FortniteIsAnAI]

5 years of playing and never knew how to do this properly lmao

[imbailing]

Thank you that makes so much more sense. Had no idea how to fix the problem of the string moving while trying to pull-off

[oluwaseunmichael]

I always love your tutorials... Thumbs Up

[Kapybaraaa]

Hi Carl, what is your action height on this guitar? I have a strat that buzzes on unwound strings. Trying to figure if it's improper setup or bad technique. (Your pull offs sound really beefy with a nice tone)

[XimenaZhaoArchive]

I tried to drill these for 5 minutes and my hand turned into a crab claw. LoL Shake it out.

[ShashankNaithani]

I love your tutorials and i have a confusion between Slur and Legatto. Can you explain me how they are different if they are. Or they are same??? I know tie is different thing if i include it also.

Will wait for your responce.

[extremity]

Thx so much dude, was getting real frustrated because every other video explains it terribly.

[ubershredder]

Hi. Over last months I have been working on building left hand dexterity.
I noticed my dexterity begging to suffer gradually the more I practiced hammers and pulls. Now my left hand feels very stiff and I can barely play a pull-off to save my life. I am advanced-level player with 17 yrs experience in Rock and Flamenco guitar.

I was mindful of not overworking my hand when doing these relatively rigorous exercises. At first my hammers and pulls seemed to be getting better, but at one point it just stopped yielding results, and lately my technique seems to have worsened. Initially i thought it is just my brain struggling to implement all the intricacies of playing a pull-off correctly, but I think its for a different reason, more to do with hand/finger wear.

-It has become harder to curl the fingers into the palm, there is pain in the ring joints when I press on them, or curl my fingers in completely.
-The left hand generally seems stiff and it requires more effort to use.
-Sympathetic tension has got worse, despite all the efforts over last months. If I move a finger (even the index), I can feel tension in other fingers and through-out the hand. In fact the right hand seems to have better dexterity and independence, even though I never even worked on it.
-The ring joint of the middle finger cracks evertime I curl it and the pinky has 'trigger finger'.

My left hand is a mess, please advise what to do. I will stay away from practice for a week, hopefully it will go away.

[cravingglory]

Honestly, too many words and time going by without demonstrating lost me at times...