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Pull-off Patterns for Shredding

Here are a few patterns you can use to move up and down the neck very quickly. Because you use pull offs, you are not limited by the speed and/or accuracy of your alternate picking. The tab notes where slides and pull offs are used. Where a slide and pull off are used in succession, it usually works to switch them, however for ease of playing, this notation uses a pull off for half steps and a slide for whole steps. The first example was taken mostly from a Steve Vai lick, and I applied the concept to other areas of the fretboard.