Hey! If you’re new here, make sure that the first thing you do is download my FREE “How to Read Guitar Tabs” guide, complete with really simple to follow video lessons. Grab the FREE Tabs Guide right here!If you have ever played slide guitar before, then you might be familiar with alternate tunings for […]
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One of the more characteristic guitar sounds is that wailing, plaintive blues slide. Now, you have probably incorporated slides into your playing by this point, where you start at a certain fretted note and then slide your finger up or down to a second note while the string is still vibrating.
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When I was getting into lead guitar as a beginner, I noticed that some of the songs I was listening to contained what seemed like impossibly high notes or tones. These notes almost sounded like what I heard if I plucked the strings in behind the tuning pegs – incredible treble sounds that really cut […]
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Jimi Hendrix was a guitar innovator, and everywhere you turn in modern music it’s not hard to spot technical elements that he brought to the table. When I was first getting into classic rock and roll guitar, I was stunned by what I heard Jimi Hendrix playing. T
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When I first started playing around with higher gains and distorted sounds on my guitar, I noticed that when I tried playing power chords, I ended up with a much noisier sound than I would have liked.
This was mostly due to the fact that my strumming hand was not precise enough to pick just […]
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Some of the most fun you can have with an electric guitar is in experimenting with it to see what kind of strange, new noises you can make come out of it. Rock and roll guitar might have some guidelines, but there are no hard and fast rules – as evidenced by the sheer […]
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One of the guitar-based bands that shone the brightest but for the briefest amount of time was Guns n’ Roses. Riding on the wave of popularity that helped make their 1987 debut record ‘Appetite for Destruction’ one of the best selling records of all time, the band went on to release just a few more […]
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I ran into the same problem while I was practicing, and since I didn’t want to completely stop playing scales and scale patterns, I knew that I had to come up with something to keep myself interested. One of the first things I tried was to vary my picking.
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Rockabilly is a form of guitar-based music that was born from the fusion of rock and roll and the more traditional forms of country music. The result is a sort of fast-moving, rhythmically-based type of guitar style that can be a lot of fun to play, and which also can help you improve your […]
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The 1960’s were a time for experimentation in popular music, and one of the most unique sounds representative of that era was surf guitar. I remember hearing songs by the Ventures and the Surfaris when I was a kid and equating them with the fun in the sun attitude that pervaded Californian music.
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