Tips for doing Pull offs

[muskett32]

How exactly does a pull off work? Also, any song that's good to practice hammer on's and pull off's in medium?

Thanks.

[Eastwood]

Say you have your finger on the green button and a Red regular note comes up followed by a green pull off note. Just keep your green button pressed down, hit the red note and lift off of the red button while leaving the green one pressed down.

It is the exact opposite of a hammer on.

[muskett32]

Thanks for the simple explanation and for not flaming me for the simple question. Any suggestion which track is good for practicint these?

[Eastwood]

Honestly, I don't know what track on medium. You could try Flirting with Disaster on hard and slow it down to 50%. That song has a lot of simple HO's and PO's, but at 100% it is killer! 50% speed will do for you, though.

[shoombabi]

Honestly, the way the game registers hammer-ons / pull-offs, you should use discretion after playing them for a while in the manner to best do this.

For a trill (the quick changing between two notes repeatedly, i.e. G R G R G R G R G R G R G R G R G R G (...) usually at a speed such that there are 2 or 4 notes in between every beat marker (if you're at all musically inclined, this means at the speed of the 8th or 16th note), it would make sense to hold the green fret down, and just keep tapping the red one as it comes up. This would initiate both a hammer-on (Green -> Red) and a pull-off (Red -> Green).

However, the way the game registers the hitting of notes, as long as you hit the previous note, you can tap the following note (assuming it's a HO/PO). That means that if your first note is a G (just for the sake of this example) that you have to strum, you strum the green, and the next note, a R, doesn't come for 10 seconds AND it allows you to Hammer-On, you can lift your hand completely off the fretboard, high five your friends, grab a drink, and then return and just tap the red button at the appropriate time.

In fact, if you find yourself performing the HO/POs correctly and they're not registering, it may be that you're not in the timing window. Coming from GH3, you would think that as long as the color is depressed as the note scrolls by, you'll be peachy. Unfortunately, this is not the case. You actually have to hit the HO/PO in the timing window, which means that you shouldn't be pulling off a higher note until it's time for the lower note, as you will only hit the first one if you keep your hand on both frets, as in the trill example.

As far as songs that can help you? I'm unfortunately not familiar with Medium / Hard guitar. If you're on expert level and just find yourself strumming a lot, i'll come back after checking out my game to give you a good section to practice.

[sporkBrigade]

Best practice I can think of is Green Grass and High Tides. Just hit up practice mode, find a nice repeating 3 note pull off section, slow it down and go to town.

Only advice I can re-iterate is that hitting the note in time is more important then anything else. For example, if you have an Orange,Blue,Yellow,Orange,Blue,Yellow combo going over and over again, you can hold down all three buttons and just lift off at the right time. Or, you can hover your fingers and only press the appropriate color at the exact moment the note hits the line. Think DDR. You're trying to hit the correct pad at the correct moment. It's totally your preference, but the most important part is that you hit that note at the exact correct moment. Naturally, you will be in the habit of hitting the fret button early, since you're trying to just press down the button quickly so that you can strum it. But getting there early with HO/POs is failure, and is the biggest hurdle for people who play the game well and know how to strum fast, but can't get HO/POs to save their life.

The last Analogy I have in my bag of tricks is to think of it like the drumming game. Hit the colored "pads" in the correct rhythm. If your Rhythm is off, you'll miss the notes. Simple as that.