If you want to play or create electric guitar riffs, effects such as distortion, overdrive, and fuzz offer you a lot of options you don’t have on the acoustic guitar. In this lesson, I won’t get into the differences between these effects, but will just advise you that the following electric guitar riffs are likely […]
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There are different ways you can go about composing a guitar solo. What I’ll show you in this lesson is just one simple method you can use to compose your first planned guitar solo. What do I mean by planning? Starting to improvise on the guitar is not hard. If you don’t have a clue
When a teacher presented me with a book showing the diagrams for all guitar scales, or rather, the most popular guitar scales, I was like “Holy crap, do I need to memorize all this to become a good guitar player” Not to mention that there were all the guitar chords that needed to be learned,
Develop these skills and learn the lead guitar like a pro! Do you know the minor pentatonic scale but not how to use it to create guitar licks and solos? Do you know a few chords and songs but don’t know what guitar skills you need to acquire to reach the next level? Welcome to
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If you’re an advancing beginner or an intermediate guitar player, congratulations! You’ve survived the hardest stage of all—being a complete beginner on guitar! Many people think the beginner stage of guitar playing is the easiest because the things they’re learning are actually easier compared to what intermediate and advanced guitar players are doing. But the
What guitar scale should you improvise on if you’re playing in the key of C major? The C major scale, right? Or else the C major pentatonic scale, which doesn’t have any different notes, only less. What guitar scale should you improvise on if the music is in the key of A minor? A minor
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Many a time I have students who have the ability to at least start to improvise guitar solos, good solos if they commit to practicing the art of improvisation for a while, but they’re afraid that it’s not within their reach because they think they can’t play fast guitar, that they can’t “shred”, and that
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