Talk:Pull-off

Why are pull-offs not generally played on acoustic guitars? Are they too hard to perform on an acoustic? If so (or whatever the reason), that should be added.


 * The article already says "Other than their use in producing passing tones, the use of pull-offs is largely confined to rock and heavy metal music, where overdriven amplifiers ensure the second tone remains audible.". I can't think of much to add to that. -- Finlay McWalter |  Talk 23:59, 5 Feb 2004 (UTC)


 * That would explain why I have so much trouble playing Wish You Were Here on my electric-acoustic. Thanks.  Anthony DiPierro 00:06, 6 Feb 2004 (UTC)


 * I was trying to get rid of the parentheses somehow, but I think I'll give up on this one. Anthony DiPierro 00:08, 6 Feb 2004 (UTC)

Huh? I've been playing 6 & 12 string accoustic guitars for 30 years, and been using pull-offs all that time. (Bar maybe the first 12 months.) The above is nonsense.

I play pull-offs all the time on my acoustic. They are of course more amplified on an electric guitar, but so is everything else... Adam Bishop 01:47, 6 Feb 2004 (UTC)


 * Seconding (thirding?) both of the above. In certain cases you may need to be more aggressive with a pull-off on an acoustic guitar, but that's as far as it goes IMHO. I actually started playing on an acoustic and had to "unlearn" my pull-off technique when I touched my first electric guitar. Too loud, and too much unforgiving noise from slightly touching adjacent strings. (Jedku (talk) 04:58, 6 January 2008 (UTC))

Imo the introduction is confusing at best: "by 'pulling' the string off the fingerboard with one of the fingers". The string isn't pulled anywhere, it's the finger that's pulled off the (as is explained later on). Mikadokratie (talk) 06:13, 11 September 2011 (UTC)

My ear for music is pretty dull but I'm having trouble hearing the difference between the audio clip musical snippets referenced for "hammer-on" and "pull-off". I looked at the hyperlinks and it appears that they're both pointing to the same file. That can't be right, can it? Alan Meyer (talk) 01:50, 1 June 2012 (UTC)