rombsix -> RE: Pull-off question (Jan. 26 2015 0:33:48)
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Bill, just because your teacher said it should be done in a certain way, and you learned it that way from him, that does not mean it is the most effective way of doing it. For the pull-off to sound loud enough to keep up with notes before it and after it, you have to do some degree of moving the string with the left hand finger to the adjacent string. The only way your method will work is if the string had already been set in motion by the right hand, and then you lift your left hand finger perpendicularly off the string, and the energy that was created before you did that (by the right hand) will then fuel the sound. However, if you want to do trills (that at times can even start the sound with the left hand & not use any right hand energy) or continuous slurs like in taranta, you will not be able to maintain the sound for more than a couple of repetitions, and then the energy dissipates if you are purely lifting the finger off perpendicularly. You can only generate so much by lifting the finger 100% perpendicularly off the string. I am sure that if you are doing it "your way" or "Paco de Malaga's" way, and you can sustain the sound for many repetitions, then you are going back to what I described initially: we are not talking all-or-nothing / black-or-white here, but rather we can do the lifting of the finger 80% or 50% perpendicularly, and with some percentage towards the adjacent string. In doing so, you will get a louder sound (than the 100% purely perpendicular method) that can be repeated & sustained without further touching the string with your right hand, and you can also try to avoid contact with the adjacent string, thereby not muting it if the purpose is for it to have continued ringing from a previous part of the music. You like to be persistent & confident with what you say, and that is great as it shows determination & strong character. It is also helpful to keep an open mind given all of the videos I have shown you above of multiple people (including very respectable flamenco guitarists) explaining how the pull-off is done (with moving the string via the left hand finger towards the adjacent string). Leaving some room for doubt in one's beliefs is a healthy approach to avoid potential over-self-confidence that can at times disallow one from seeing different, perhaps useful points of view. Olé! [:)]
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