My pinky is sore! I’ve been working a lot on trying to get it to slide into a pull-off. A fairly common technique: hammer-on with the pinky, slide to some higher note, pull-off. I can do any one of these individually fairly well. But together something is wrong. I often lose the tone completely on the slide.
I’m not sure what part of my pinky I should slide with. The tip? The pad? The side?
I may be using too much of the side. I’m not sure. My blister / callous is to the right of the center of the pad, slightly more along the side. I note that this also means I’m a bit slower on sweeping pull-offs higher on the neck. One the low frets I can pull-off very quickly, but on the higher frets I get a bit too much skin, possibly slowing me down.
Does any of this make sense?
May main problem right now is that I’m losing the tone on the slide. If I pick and slide or if I just hammer-on with no slide, I get an okay tone. If I hammer-on then slide I lose the tone very quickly.
Any tips would be appreciated. I’m not sure which part of the pinky I should be training myself to use for the best results.
I’d rather continue to learn to use all four fingers so I’m not sure I want to try “just using the ring finger.” That seems to be too self-limiting when I feel I’m fairly close to unlocking this technique.
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