Originally Posted by: jacaballeroHi, I've have developed calluses as everyone trying to learn guitar but my middle and ring finger ones have become kind of flat and are also very smooth. So when I try to do pull offs with those finger the string kind of slips and I cant seem to pinch them (at least thats what I think I am suppoused to do)
So I was wondering if anyone here have experienced something like this, if yu have any advice as how to overcome it (maybe I am doing the technique wrong) or if should do something directly to the calluses, I dont really feel like trimming them since it seems that it would be painful, but yeah, any advice on this would very much appreciated. Thanks!
Something to keep in mind for a pull off; your are essentially, but ever so slightly, pulling the string away from the fretboard. What this means is that using the very tips of your fingers that you fret notes with is not going to geet you the effect you are looking for. Though I am not watch you do a pulloff and therefor this info has to be taken with that in mind, you want to fret the pull off just below where you normally fret a new. By doing so, you will pull the string a little away from the string and allowing for the pull off to 'pluck' the string to let it ring out. In a way, what your doing is placing your finger not on top of the string but a little above.
This is a very slight difference and I would suggest messing about with where on your fingers you're pulling off. No one showed me how to do a pull off but I did notice that when I messed around (very, very distant memory...), I found that sound I was looking for. Some of it is experimenting, really.
