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How to Play Pull-Offs

mandolin beginner

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Let's learn to master pull-offs on the mandolin with 4 FUN exercises!

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  1. Marcy Kern

    Third time coming back to this lesson over two years. It's amazing what shows up when you're ready for it.

  2. Owen Brady

    โ™ฅ 4

    Metronome at 60 and no faster until it's clean twice through. Boring but it works.

  3. flatpick_dad

    โ™ฅ 6

    Count it out loud. Everyone says it and everyone's right.

  4. Ann Marie Boyd

    โ™ฅ 8

    That's the one that made me finally understand backup. Stick with it.

  5. Owen Brady

    โ™ฅ 7

    Take the capo off and play it in open G a few times, then put it back. Helped me hear it.

  6. Katie Clark Support

    โ™ฅ 20

    Glad it clicked! That timing is the whole point of this lesson, so if that landed you got what you came for.

  7. Hollis Barnett

    Welcome aboard — you picked a good one to start on.

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