Guitar Techniques
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section)
Guitar techniques are
skills that guitarists use in playing the guitar. Have you ever heard how Steve Vai makes his guitar wails? What
about Joe Satriani with his sleek guitar melodies? These guitar players acheive their unique brand of sounds not
only because of their different musical styles but also the techniques that they employ to their guitar playing.
Good News: You can also learn some of these guitar secrets and guitar skills that are used by top level
guitarists in this section of guitar lessons.
Different guitar
techniques are used in different styles of music. For example, classical musicians use extensive finger plucking
whereas heavy rock musicians often apply string bending in solos. In the guitar technique lessons on
GuitarPlayerWorld.com, we hope to cover as wide a range of techniques as possible to aid you in becoming a
complete guitarist. Since I am personally a rock guitar fan, most of the guitar technique lessons that I have
written would tend towards rock guitar playing. However, this does not mean that the guitar techniques learnt
here cannot be applied to other genres of music.
These comprehensive
guitar lessons will focus on illustrating basic techniques and tricks employed by professional guitarists
and can be tailored to suit different styles and tastes. Now, learning guitar techniques is NOT easy. There
are a lot of sources out there that claim you’ll be able to play at 200bpm in one week or effortlessly learn
guitar techniques such as tapping. The truth is, it takes time and discipline to gain excellent guitar
techniques. Always stay focused to a practice plan and keep sight of your goals and what you want to
acheive.
The .gtp5 files in the
lessons would help a great deal for practising. Feel free to tweak the exercises to your own needs or even make
them more challenging.
Finally, submit your
feedback/comments on the lessons and contact us for any topics that you want us to
cover.
Guitar Techniques :
Lesson
1: Alternate
Picking
Lesson
2: Legato Playing
Lesson
3: String Bending
Lesson
4: Palm Muting
Lesson
5: String
Muting
Lesson
6: Guitar Vibrato
Lesson
7: Guitar Harmonizing
Lesson
8: Introduction to
Artificial and Natural Harmonics
Lesson
9: Learn Natural
Harmonics On Guitar
Lesson10: Learn Pinch And Artificial Harmonics On Guitar
Lesson11:
Guitar Tapping Techniques
Lesson12: Guitar Tapping on Same Legato Notes (Part 1) (By Guest Author : Josip Pesut)
Lesson13: Guitar Tapping on Same Legato Notes (Part
2) (By Guest Author : Josip Pesut)
Lesson14: Economy
Picking
Lesson15: Sweep
Picking
Lesson16: Guitar
Arpeggios
Lesson15: Including Arpeggios In Melodies (By Guest Author : Josip Pesut)
Lesson16: Whammy Bar (Tremelo
Arm)
Lesson17:
Advanced Sweep Concepts (By Guest Author :
John Huldt)
Lesson18: Slide Guitar (Bottleneck Guitar) (By Guest Author : Matt Hammond)
Lesson19: Acoustic
Fingerpicking for Beginners
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