Pull-offs
A pull-off can be thought of as the opposite of a hammer-on.
There are 2 notes involved. Before starting, you will need to
have both left hand fingers that are involved already placed in
their perspective frets. The first note is plucked, then a second
note is sounded by pulling that finger off of the string with
force. You are basically plucking the string with the left hand
finger that you used for the 1st note first note. You will need
to pull both towards the floor, and out away from the neck of
the guitar.
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Notation used for pull-offs
In Internet tablature,
pull-offs are represented by a "p" placed between 2
different notes. Like the hammer-on, you may see this symbol between
2 notes ^. The way you can tell pull-off apart from a hammer-on,
is that the second note is lower than the first for a pull-off.
Sometimes the addition of a "p" above the ^ symbol helps
to clarify things.
E:-----------or-------or----------
B:--------------------------p-----
G:-----7p5-------7^5-------7^5----
D:--------------------------------
A:--------------------------------
E:--------------------------------
Published tablature
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In published tablature that you will find in
books and magazines, you will see a curved line or arc over
the 2 or more notes involved. |
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Sometimes there is the addition of an "P"
above the arc. |
Standard
notation
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Standard notation uses the arc, but usually
not the addition of the "P"
above. |
Page 1, Hammer-ons
Page 3, Hammer-on and pull-off
exercise 
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