From the course: Banjo Lessons: 2 Hammer-Ons and Pull-Offs

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Pull-off etude: part 2

Pull-off etude: part 2

From the course: Banjo Lessons: 2 Hammer-Ons and Pull-Offs

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Pull-off etude: part 2

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- Now we're going to move into a slightly different zone. And these are just some pull-off etudes. The first one's in the key of C. (banjo chord) And it sounds like this. (cheerful banjo music) So you're basically working out of a C chord here, and I have the index finger down when I start, so you have that sense of C. I pull two to zero, ring open. And then I pull off that C note, one to zero on the second string, then I bring it back down, as I bring the middle to the second fret of the third string, let go, bring it back down. And then bring the middle over to the second fret of the fourth string as a quarter note. (snippet of banjo music) That's the first measure. Then the second measure is just keeping the index down on the first fret of the second string, forward roll. To the fifth string, add the ring on the quarter note first string, fifth string quarter note, so the first two measures are... (snippet of banjo music) And then you repeat that first measure for the third…

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