Pull-Offs over Hammer-Ons

**daeyeth** · Joined: 25 Jun 2006 Posts: 295

I was wondering about the practical use of pull-offs. When is it more efficient to use a pull-off? I find it so difficult to use pull-offs in the middle of a song. I can't ever figure out a part in a song where I would actually want to use a pull-off over a hammer-on since hammer-ons are much easier to "wing it". I guess the real question is, do you ever actually NEED to use pull-offs for any off the expert songs or can you get by with hammer-ons?

**Huwonk** · Joined: 26 May 2006 Posts: 2432 Location: Marysville, Ohio

**Riz** · Joined: 06 Jun 2006 Posts: 2011

Personally, I find grace notes to be one of the most obnoxious of things to try and hammer on. I miss them probably 90% of the time, probably more where it's B-O or some other 3-4 fingered pair. I've gotten quite used to strumming both.

Riz.
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**JHetfield0816** · Joined: 10 Apr 2006 Posts: 2230 Location: New Jersey

Best place to use pulloffs for me are the parts in Texas Flood on expert where it goes BYRG really fast...I never miss 'em when I use a PO
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**ES942** · Joined: 02 Mar 2006 Posts: 3445 Location: Snalbans

why, you motorboatin' son of a b**ch, i can't ever do pulloffs...
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**Shadow** · Joined: 22 Jul 2006 Posts: 329

**COBW3BB** · Posted: Mon Aug 28, 2006 8:43 pm Post subject:

I use pull-offs a lot more than hammer-ons. I always strum such things as the GRYB at the beginning of Farewell Myth on expert. Hammer-ons just aren't very responsive for me or reliable at all. But for solos like Iron Man on expert, I think it's pretty much necessary to use pull offs unless you want your forearm to ache for hours.
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**SThorpe** · Joined: 09 Aug 2006 Posts: 2500

I hammer on pulloffs, like not holding anything down, and it works, but I need to learn how to do it properly, I use HOPOs as much as I can, cos it's fun

**popemobile** · Joined: 03 Jun 2006 Posts: 3879

i use pulloffs in Take it off, Ziggy Stardust and Thunderkiss 65, and i use Hammers and Pulloffs in Frankenstein and Texas Flood trills

**SThorpe** · Joined: 09 Aug 2006 Posts: 2500

I've always wished there was an unlockable mode where every note is white topped, so you could go through the whole song barely strumming

**JHetfield0816** · Joined: 10 Apr 2006 Posts: 2230 Location: New Jersey

**HylianHero** · Joined: 22 Feb 2006 Posts: 4673 Location: Santa Cruz, CA

The only time I use pull-offs on purpose is...well, actually, never. I should probably try it for the BatM solo, but since I've 5-starred TF on Expert all down strumming (except for the super long O streak), I think I'm ok for now.

I'm sure I accidentally use PO's all the time, but for some reason, anytime I conciously try to do it I mess it up.
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**tommy2000** · Posted: Tue Aug 29, 2006 11:30 am Post subject:

Lol... like in Higher Ground on Hard, right at the end, sometimes i get those YBYRGs (God knows how

) and then most times i don't. I need a practise mode...

**MrTaco** · Joined: 19 Jul 2006 Posts: 58

I suck tremendously at HO's and PO's, that's why I rarely use them to begin with. Then again, I'm not that good at strumming either, except for parts like in Unsung where you can't fail them. I guess that's why I suck at quite a few of the songs. Like, I rarely nail that YBY part in Symphony of Destruction on Expert, which I guess would be easier to do with a HO-PO. It's just too fast to do for me, I end up screwing it up almost every single time. I guess that's why my score is so darn low on that song.

**popemobile** · Joined: 03 Jun 2006 Posts: 3879