These techniques aren’t always necessary to be played, but it sure can add some flavor to your guitar playing. Add some spicy can be something extra in your play. Consider it as an icing on your cake, despite the taste it looks good also.

And they are:

• Guitar Tapping – The most common advance guitar technique used by many guitarists in the world. Done by tapping string on the frets without plucking it to make its unique sound.
• Natural Harmonics – Don’t you know that you can make your guitar sounds like gentle chimes rings clearly? This techniques produce more ambient to your sound done by gently touching (not pressing!) your finger upon strings on certain frets.
• Pinch Harmonics – This certain harmonics technique produces a high pitch squeal that gone through air and eardrums. Think about Heavy Metal then you’ll know what I mean.
• Palm Muting – Place your palm at the end of the strings near the bridge to do this technique. This will produce the distorted chug-crunch sounds commonly found in rock and metal style. Goes well also on clean electric and acoustic.
• Double Stops – This technique goes when you want to play two notes at once.

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The thing is by learning these essential techniques you will be able to play many various and different guitar playing style. And of course this too will let you do more complex guitar passage riffs. The more techniques you got the more style you can play the better you’ll be as guitar player.

Essential Guitar Playing Techniques

I know that probably some of you have already heard about these basic techniques or even you have master it well, but it still won’t harm to over look it again. You know it well that there’s always room for improvement.

With these techniques you can explore more with your creative side of playing. Even if you’re playing for just a few chords, these techniques will add something extra in your playing.

Let’s learn about these essential guitar playing techniques; they are:

1. Alternate Picking – This is probably the most essential guitar playing techniques. That’s why it goes first. This technique will build speed, solidifies your timing, and coordinates the actions of your picking and fretting hands.
2. The Legato Techniques, consist of:
   - Hammer Ons – Go from lower to higher notes done by pressing on another frets with different finger.
   - Pull Offs – The Reverse of Hammer Ons which you go from higher notes to lower notes. Done by releasing your fingers to lower notes.
3. Slides – Just like the name itself, slides means you slide your finger on strings going from one frets to another that will add “smoothness” to your playing sound.
4. Bending – Means that you actually bend the string up or down that will increase or decrease the note. This vital technique will make your guitar solo run sounds like crying.
5. Vibrato – Great techniques that makes your note sounds longer. It can also add vibration to the sound. Made by press and shaking your fingers gently on the string. You’ll be amazed once you heard the sound you’re making using this technique.

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That’s why you need to tune your guitar strings according to their notes so that they have their perfect pitch. And learning how to tune a guitar properly is one of the most important things you will ever learn. Imagine if your strings aren’t tune well, you will be playing out of tunes and sounds like a complete mess! People will raise eyebrows on you and say “Does this guy know how to play guitar? He doesn’t even know how to tune it!”

So how do we do it? How do we tune our guitar?

Well, there are some ways to do it. I’ll let you pick what’s best for you:

• You can check out this simple online guitar tuner video. This video is quick and easy to follow that will allow you to tune your strings under two minutes. This is an easy choice if you want clear example on how to tune your guitar.
• Or you can learn how to tune your guitar by your own ears. I’ll give you two main techniques to follow. They both use what so called relative pitch. Don’t worry it’s not as scary as it heard, in fact it’s kinda fun how you can tune your guitar using relative pitch.
• Or… and this is the easiest; you can always get yourself a guitar tuner. This small yet handy tool will guide and gives you the perfect pitch according to its natural note. You should have one. It’s not too expensive though.

Well that’s all you need to know about tuning your guitar I guess. Remember whenever you want to play your guitar, make sure that you had your guitar strings tuned; or you’ll know the consequences. Tune your guitar up and let’s get going to next lesson.

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But it all changed when I try to learn a song over some musical score and I couldn’t do it. Not because I wasn’t good enough, but simply I didn’t know how to read it. It just froze me on my track to see something like this:

It’s a “tuplet” as I learned later, and it makes me realize that if I didn’t want to learn how to handle such basic musical notation you can imagine what kinda player I would be. I have to study this to reach my full potential. I have to do it and solve this basic issue, learning some music theory.

And you should do it too. If you can’t play a guitar solo run because it’s too friggin’ hard that’s one thing. But if you can’t play it because you don’t know how to read and understand to play it, that’s another thing. You need to solve that. You won’t let this technical boundaries stops you to reach your full potential don’t you? And I’m gonna help you with that.

In this page you will find important things you need to know about music theory related to guitar playing. If you want to learn about just intonation or any other obscure concept then I’m afraid that you will be disappointed. But if you want to learn how to play anything you see in tab or music sheet, then you’re in the right place.

And these basic topics that you should address to solve:

• Tempo – describe how fast or slow a song should be played. Simple stuff.
• Basic Note Values – every notes has a values, it describe how long a note should be played or hold.
• Tuplets – a group of notes with same values played in a time.
• Time Signatures – describe how many of which notes get put in each measure.

I know this may sound difficult for any beginner like you, but don’t get caught up with difficult terms you are having. These are just aspects of guitar music theory just yet. There are tons more, and it’s all worth learning. As always the more you know the better you’ll be. I say you should work on this and going all from here.

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Now that you’ve learn all about basic chords, barre chords, and all sorts of other chords form such as the blues chords, it’s time for you to learn about guitar strumming. If you through about chords then I supposed you already know how to hold all short of chords now. But guitar is all about two hand playing, one holds and one pick. Do you know what to do with your other hand? And did you know that keeping on a steady and predictable pattern is pretty lame?

And that’s why I’ll give you variation on your strumming. Down – down repetitive strumming is bad, and so is repetitive up and down strumming. You should always mix up with variations. That way your playing won’t sounds to boring. I’ll give you a well-rounded look at the subject, including several different common strumming patterns for you to play around with.

Oh if incase you really trying to learn guitar chords over those 800,000 chords pages, then this one is probably for you.

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Once you’re done with barre chords, you might want to ask “what about the blues?” these chords are great, but I want to play the blues? Is there anything else to explore my bluesy side?

Don’t worry, you’ll get that in this section too, you will find all that bluesy chords on blues chords. This will get you the bluesy chords you’ve wanted. If you have followed the blues chords lesson you, then you already know the essential chords used in traditional blues. And I’m gonna show you which one to use and some super cool common variation as well.

Continue…

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Perhaps the most important type of chords to learn is Barre Chords; because this will make your job as guitar player so much easier. Basically they will allow you to easily play chords that are either difficult or impossible to play in the open position.

But the opposite is this: although bare chords are very versatile, they are more difficult to hold as they require stronger grip, thus you need finger strength and perseverance to hold it steadily. It’s a more advanced technique, but keep on going and you’ll be glad you did.

First you may want to re check the guitar notes page before continuing. Give specific attention to the low E and A strings. When you got that pulled up go to the barre chords page and get ready for some action (or torture perhaps?).

Nahh, I’m just kidding, as I said barre chords can be a bit tricky to learn at first, but I’m confident that you will get through that without having a serious mental breakdown or accidentally left your guitar in an unlocked car in some bad neighborhood with the windows down. After you work on these chords you’ll be a stronger player, I promise you that.

Continue to “Learn Guitar Chord #4 Learn Guitar Chords: Blues Chords”

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When I first got guitar in hand and try to learn basic guitar chords on my own, I didn’t really know how to do it. The whole weird chord forms are just killing me. So I made up my own. Sometimes I got lucky, some of them sound cool, but for most part well I made up my own chords what do you think it would like?

But after bit guidance from more experienced players, I managed to finally know how to play chords properly. Chords that sound pleasant and inviting people to come over rather than ran and cover their ears.
And the same goes to you. When it comes to chords learning you simply needs some directions. That’s all.

And you don’t need:

• Your Natural Talent
• Luck
• Private Lesson with Steve Vai
• Broke you out expensive guitar
• 18 years practice a day
• Bigger and stronger hands

You don’t need all of that just to play chords. So if you don’t need such things then what do you need? It’s simple; you just have to want to learn and some time. That’s all. In fact I would say if you capable to read this, you will be able to learning that. You will be able to play some song in no time. Try run through the sample progressions, practice your fingers changing between chords, take your time and make sure it sounds clean. Take as long as your time to make sure that you’re comfortable holding and switching between basic chords that you learning.

Take it easy. There’s no rush. No one demanding that you have to be great guitar player over night. Do it for fun and keep practicing and repair some mistakes, then before you realize you’ll start getting better. Rapidly.

Now if you’re ready, I’ll write a tutorial “Learn Guitar Chord #3 Learn Guitar Chords: Barre Chords“.

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Now I’m not gonna make this as an “800,000 guitar chords diagram” and throw it at you. There you go, and expect you to figure it out on your own. That would be wrong. You’ll never know how these chords developed then. Instead I’m gonna give you what chords are all about, what you can do with chords, and avoid playing the same thing over and over again. In fact you will be able to figure it out on your own your chords form. So you don’t have to remember it the whole time. If you understand the concept you don’t have to remember anything. Here I’m using guitar tab and chords diagrams to cover this.

Let get going then!

1. Learn Guitar Chords: The Basic
2. Learn Guitar Chords: Barre Chords
3. Learn Guitar Chords: Blues Chords
4. Learn Guitar Chords: Strumming

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But why we need to know all about guitar setup? Couldn’t we just take them to shop if anything happened? Why an average guitar player should needs to learn how to maintain their instruments? There are shops for that rite?!

Well I would give answer with analogy:
Let’s say that you’re a one hell of a mechanic who took your car to repairing shop for an oil change. Not because you’re too tired to do it yourself, but simply because you don’t know how to do it. The shop keeper would raise eyebrows on you and say “you’re a mechanic, you were saying?”

Now was that any different with some guitar players taking his/her guitar to the music shop for something routine-do it yourself stuff like a string change? Why would you pay anyone else to do something that you should be able to do it on yourself? Like I said, I didn’t mean that you have to build your guitar all the way from the scratch; it’s just that you should be able to work on your own stuff for at least the basic stuff like string change.

You might consider this as your guide to the basic stuff that you should mastered. I’ll give the electric guitar section in its own section, because there are more a bit to it. While the rest is pretty much applicable for both electric and acoustic setup.

General Guitar Setup

Here is equally applicable well for both electric and acoustic, so it won’t be any difference whether you’re play heavy metal or traditional folk songs. You can find more specific stuff further down the page.

• Changing Strings – you should at least know how to do this.
• To make sure that you choose the right type, please check out this information about the basic types of guitar strings.
• Guitar Supplies – every activity needs its stuffs. And here is the top ten “things” you need as a guitarist.

Of course that’s not all when it comes to guitar setup, there are many more. But I guess it’s a start.

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