Jerry Douglas style hammer ons and pull offs

Mike Bagwell · Post by **Mike Bagwell** » 24 Jun 2000 6:55 am

This is blues base lick inspired by Jerry Douglas.

The A&B pedals a held down thru the entire passage,
"h" indicates a hammer on ( with the bar) and
"p" indicates a pull off( with the bar) this pulling off manuver
is common practice when playing Dobro, when you pull the bar
off of the string it actually sounds the note( you don't actually
pick the string).
The lick should be pick blocked
<pre>
1---------------------------------------------------------------------
2---------------------------------------------------------------------
3-----0-h3-0---0-----------------------------------------------------------
4------------3---3-p0---0-h3-p0---0--------------------------------------------
5---------------------3---------3---3-p0---0-h3-p0---0----------------------------
6----------------------------------------3---------3---3-p0----------------
7---------------------------------------------------------------------
8------------------------------------------------------------3 / 5---------
9---------------------------------------------------------------------
10--------------------------------------------------------------------
m t m t t m t m t t m t m t t
</pre>

[This message was edited by Mike Bagwell on 25 June 2000 at 02:17 PM.]

jerry allen · Post by **jerry allen** » 25 Jun 2000 5:26 am

Mike!

I appreciate this run very much. I have just printed it out and added it to my repretore of "hammer on/pull off" licks.

Don Walters · Post by **Don Walters** » 25 Jun 2000 10:48 am

Mike, don't Dobro players typically use a bar that has a front edge that lets you actually "pluck" the string as you pull it off? I can understand a normal bar pull-off if you've just hammered-on. The string will be vibrating. But what if you need just a pull-off. How do you do that with a normal bar without first plucking the string?

TIA

cory a brown · Post by **cory a brown** » 25 Jun 2000 11:06 am

if you are pulling off to an open string w/o plucking it first then there is no need to pull off just pluck the open string.You will end up with the same thing.There are no pull offs in the above tab where you dont pluck the string first on a fretted note.

Mike Bagwell · Post by **Mike Bagwell** » 25 Jun 2000 1:30 pm

Don,

I edited the above post to include fingering.Sometimes I turn the bar around and play with the flat side facing foward, to incorporate the technique you described off on pedal steel. I guess the problem we are having is the deffinition of a pull off,in this context I meant that the string would be struck while bared and then allowed to ring when the bar was pulled off. Sorry for the confusion, Im just happy someone cared enought to take an objective look at it.

Thanks
Mike

Don Walters · Post by **Don Walters** » 25 Jun 2000 9:15 pm

Thanks, Mike. I wondered if you did that!

Thanks for the post!