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 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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