Pull-Offs

Today we are going to get you to start playing lead guitar. A large part of lead guitar includes the use of legato- an Italian word in music that basically means that notes are played "smoothly together." Over the course of these lessons, we are going to learn different legato tricks. Today, we are going to focus on "pull-offs". A pull-off is indicated as "P" in guitar tablature:

When you play a pull-off, you only strike the string once and two notes sound. After you play the first note, you simply let go of your finger and let the second note ring whereever you are fretting it (except in the case of pulling off to an open string).

The two tabs below are identical, except the second uses pull-offs. In Figure 3.1, you would have to strike each string twice. When you play the tab in Figure 3.2, you only have to strike each string once. Notice how Figure 3.2 sounds a lot more "smoother" than Figure 2?

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The Secret To Learning Guitar As Fast As Possible

The secret to learning the guitar as fast as possible: consistency. Don't confuse consistency with thinking this means you need all the free time in the world for guitar lessons. Practising the material I teach you for just 10 minutes per day will be far more beneficial to you than practising once a month for 6 hours in one sitting.

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Contact us at stupideasyguitar [at] gmail.com. The goal of this site is to teach people how to play the guitar as quickly and easily as possible. From what I've found, guitar teachers and instructors often don't teach their students things that will help them learn the instrument as fast as possible. Why? Well, a lot of guitar teachers are classically trained so they will teach their students things like how to read music which can be very time consuming, frustrating and boring for beginner guitarists. While there is nothing wrong with learning how to read music, this should never be taught at the beginning of the guitar learning process because its gets in the way of teaching students things that are much easier to learn so they can get playing recognizable riffs, chords and songs on the guitar as soon as possible. The more students aren't learning the simple and easy things first, the greater the chance there is of them quitting and giving up on the guitar altogether.