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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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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