Guitar Techniques

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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.

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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