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Check out this free lesson from Guitar Control instructor Darrin Goodman on this classic Americana Walking Bass Line. Be sure to click the link for the free tabs to go along with this lesson. Introduction Hey everybody how’s it going? This is Darrin with GuitarControl.com bringing you this video lesson. Today I want to show …
Expand your power chord arsenal by Learning How To Play The Zoo Riff By The Scorpions in this free lesson from Guitar Control instructor Darrin Goodman. Be sure to click the link for the free tabs for the Zoo riff. Introduction Hey everybody how’s it going? This is Darrin with GuitarControl.com bringing you this video …
Check out this free lesson from Guitar Control instructor Darrin Goodman on how to do the Travis Picking technique using the classic Fleetwood Mac riff from landslide. Be sure to click the link for the tabs to go along with this lesson. So lets check out how to Travis Pick. Introduction Hey everybody how’s it …
Check out this Easy Killer Chordal Classic Rock Song Intros guitar lesson from Guitar Control instructor Darrin Goodman. In this free lesson Darrin demonstrates how to play the chordal-based intros from “Eight Days A Week” and “End Of The Line”. Be sure to get the free tabs for this Easy Killer Chordal Classic Rock Song …
If you’re a beginner then you need this Beginner Strumming for Easy Improvement lesson from Guitar Control. Instructor Darrin Goodman breaks it all down with step-by-step video instruction and free included tabs. Overview Hey everybody how’s it going? This is Darrin with GuitarControl.com bringing you this Beginner Strumming for Easy Improvement video lesson. Today I …
Hey, this is Matias Rengel with Guitar Control, we’ll be learning this really cool new soul groove.
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I’m just playing some sort of an F-sharp minor, so what I’m doing for this chord I’m placing my index finger on the 7th fret all across the string and then I got my middle finger on the 9th fret of the 5th string in ring finger on the 9th fret of the 3rd string pinky finger is on the 9th fret of a second but sometimes I’ll remove it of course and I put it in other strings I play with it and then from there I go into this one, basically an E major 7 it’s this chord I mean you probably know this chord and you know the A major if you move it up.
So what I do is I play these three notes with my ring and then put the fret for that, I have my ring finger on the 7th fret of the 5th. The riff, my index finger design for the 5th ring finger on this 9th fret of the 4th, 3rd, 2nd and the pinky is on the 11th for the 1st then from there I’m going to this one which is an inversion over an E flat minor 7 or a D sharp minor 7, how you want to call it so for this one basically I have my middle finger on the 13th fret of the 5th string my ring finger on the 13 fret of the 4th index finger on the 11th fret of the 9th fret of the 3rd string and pinky finger on the 14th of the 2nd.
From there we go to this one it’s basically an E flat alter so what I do is I have my index finger on the 11th fret of the 6th string middle finger and 11th for the 4th, I’m not playing the 5th so I’m muting with the index finger and then I have my ring finger on the 12th fret of the 3rd and pinky finger on the 12th fret of the second take this out for this it’s the same as the first one but two frets up so it’s the same position but we just have the middle on the 11th fret this one is on the 9 the ring fingers on the 11 on the 3rd and the pinkie on the and then finish it up with this so for this is the G sharp minor so for that the way it smoother I just do it like this of course but you could totally stretch.
I’m doing it because it’s easier to make fingers and do it like this if it’s too much of a stretch so for what I’m doing got the 6th fret of the 5th and 4th string and then with the index I’m playing the 4th fret, now let’s get more into the specifics. The chords that I’m playing now for the first chord, I’ll down the pinky on the nine of the first and then I go into this one I play it four times and from there what I like to do is put my pinky in there and just do one are you want to with the pinky and then three without a pinky for with the pinky fine with the pinky right so the melody that’s happening here 1, 2, 3, 4, and then I come down here and I slide it down.
Now it’s important that you listen to and another thing that I like to do here is I like to tell a different inversion in between the E major 7 and the next chords I like to do the same here before this one so for that 13th fret of the 4th and 3rd, 12th fret of the 2nd and 14th fret of the 1st. Now you can play this with a little bit more beautiful if you want now it really depends I mean you should definitely try to play it slow at first because it’s really hard.
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Easy Guitar Lesson on Easy Must Know Guitar Riffs For Beginners – Rhythm Guitar Lesson from Guitar Control instructor Darrin Goodman. These four Easy Must Know Guitar Riffs For Beginners will have you rockin‘ in record time to the classic riffs; Smoke On The Water, Whole Lotta Love, Crazy Train and Paranoid. So lets check out these Easy Must Know Guitar Riffs For Beginners.
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Hey how’s it going? This is Darrin with GuitarControl.com bringing you this video lesson. Today I’ve got a lesson for all the beginners out there on some Easy Must Know Guitar Riffs For Beginners . These are ones that you’re gonna want to know how to play, they’re fun to play, everybody knows these and it’s just kind of a rite of passage for playing guitar to learn these riffs. So be sure to click on the link in the description for the tabs and let’s get close up and take a look at these Easy Must Know Guitar Riffs For Beginners.
All right so first Easy Must Know Guitar Riffs For Beginners we’re gonna look at Smoke On The Water. Now Smoke On The Water is everybody’s first cool riff that they learn and this is probably the most recognizable guitar riff of all time. But ironically it’s played incorrectly quite often so I’m going to show you how to play it. So this is just going to be played on the fourth and the third strings, so just these Center strings and you can you use a pick to do this, but it seems like they’re simultaneously playing the strings; so you could play it like that or just use two fingers, that’s what I do, I just hold my pick and then use my second and a third finger to play those two strings. So we start off by just playing both of these strings open and then it goes to the third fret on both strings… so we have open three and then five six… So that’s Smoke On The Water, the first Easy Must Know Guitar Riffs For Beginners.
The next Easy Must Know Guitar Riffs For Beginners we have Whole Lotta Love by Led Zeppelin, another iconic Easy Must Know Guitar Riffs For Beginners that’s fun and easy to play. So we start off Whole Lotta Love on the seventh fret of the sixth string with my third finger and we’re gonna go to the fifth fret of the fifth string with your first finger. So you do it twice just like that… and then from there you’re gonna take that first fingering and move it up a whole-step from the fifth fret to the seventh fret and then you’re gonna bring your third finger down onto the ninth fret of the fourth string; so this is an E5 power chord and you’re gonna pick those two strings and then you’re going to play the sixth string open three times. So we’re palm muting that so if you don’t know what palm muting is there’s plenty of videos on the channel about it, but all this kind of really quickly; so you just take this part of your hand and you rest it right on the bridge right where the string rests in the saddle and when you have it in the right place the note should slightly ring out, if you’re too far forward it’s just dead and if you’re too far back it’s not muted, so you just have to kind of find that sweet spot. Then after you do this three times you hit the power chord again, three muted power chords… just like that. Now another thing that I’m doing when I hit the power chord is I release the pressure with my fingers just enough so it becomes silent so that way it’s not ringing out; so each time before I strum I squeeze almost simultaneously… just like that. So that’s Whole Lotta Love, the second Easy Must Know Guitar Riffs For Beginners.
Alright the next Easy Must Know Guitar Riffs For Beginners we have another really iconic riff, this is the intro riff for Crazy Train, another one that everybody knows as soon as you play it, everybody knows exactly what it is and this is also good as a picking exercise because you can do this with all with alternate picking. So to start off this Easy Must Know Guitar Riffs For Beginners we’re on the second fret of the sixth string with your first finger and then have your third finger ready to be on the fourth fret of the fifth string. So we’re gonna play the sixth string twice and then to that fourth fret of the fifth string and then back to the second fret of the sixth string and it’s all eighth notes. So like I said this is a good picking exercise, you could do it with all down strokes, but I recommend that you do it with alternate picking. So we have that one G and now we’re gonna go to the fifth fret of this fifth string and you’re gonna want to use your fourth finger; now you could shift up and use your third finger, but I really recommend you use your pinky. Then back to the sixth string again, back to the fourth fret of the fifth string and back to the second fret of the sixth string again… so that’s the first measure. For the second measure of Crazy Train you’re going to take that first finger and you’re going to move it from the sixth string to the fifth string still at the second fret; so we’re second string open to the fourth fret of the sixth string and then to the fifth string open, second fret of the fifth string open and fourth fret of the sixth string to open. So the whole thing… and then it just repeats. So that’s Crazy Train, third Easy Must Know Guitar Riffs For Beginners.
And then the final Easy Must Know Guitar Riffs For Beginners we have the opening riff from Paranoid by Black Sabbath. You know Paranoid is one original metal riffs. So for Paranoid we’re gonna come all the way up to the seventh fret on the 5th string, but you’re going to barre your finger so you’re playing the fifth string and the fourth string at the seventh fret. Then you’re gonna strike those two strings together, but you’re going to do a hammer-on with your third finger to the ninth fret of the fourth string… just like that. So if doing a hammer-on is a new technique for you this might be a little bit more challenging; so you might want to just practice doing that. So when you do a hammer-on you literally hammer that finger down. You don’t want to just set it down, you want to hit it down hard enough that your fretting the note. So when you do this you want this fifth string still to be ringing out; so you do this three times… just like that, that’s the first measure of Paranoid. And then we follow that with this other riff that’s the fourth string seventh fret and then you hammer-on to the ninth fret and then you do the same thing on the third string and you do it twice. So technically you could just barre your first finger across the 5th, 4th and 3rd strings at the 7th fret… just like that. So that’s Paranoid, the fourth and last Easy Must Know Guitar Riffs For Beginners.
All right so I hope you enjoyed Easy Must Know Guitar Riffs For Beginners and you got something out of it. If you like this Easy Must Know Guitar Riffs For Beginners lesson give me a thumbs up and leave a comment down below if there’s something you’d like to see either myself or one of the other instructors at guitar control.com do in a future lesson. Well that’s all I have for you today, thanks for watching Easy Must Know Guitar Riffs For Beginners and have a great day.
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Check out this free Killer Riff From “Killing in The Name” By R.A.T.M. guitar lesson from Guitar Control instructor Darrin Goodman. Be sure to click on the link for the tabs so you can easily follow along with Killer Riff From “Killing in The Name” by Rage Against The Machine.
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Hey everybody how’s it goin? This is Darrin Goodman with GuitarControl.com bringing you this video lesson. Today I want to show you a Killer Riff From “Killing in The Name” by Rage Against The Machine. This guitar player is really interesting and weird things. Anyway this is just a fun drop D riff and I hope you enjoy it. Be sure to click on the link in the description for the tabs and let’s get up close and take a look at Killer Riff From “Killing in The Name”.
All right, so we’re not going to be going through this entire song, we’re basically gonna be working on the intro and then the one main riff. The Riff is in it is drop D so you’re gonna have to tune your sixth string from an E down to a D.
Alright so it starts off with just this D5, so just gonna be playing the six in the fifth strings open as whole notes so and then the guitar at this point actually rests for four measures and it’s just the bass and some percussion stuff. So after we do that rest then we go into this next riff that is just unusual, there’s a lot of notes that are kind of dissonant and stuff but I just really kind of like the way that it sounds.
So start off with just the six string open play that three times and then we go to the fourth string and I’m just using my first and second finger and we go eleven twelve and then to the third string eleven twelve; also that’s one measure and it does three measures of that… okay so after you do it three times then on the fourth measure it’s just slightly different and we go to the third string to 12 and we do a full step bend and release. So that whole four measures, which is repeated, so you do the whole sequence twice. All right, then that leads us to the next section, the next staff starting at measure 13 and this riff right here is actually what the bass is doing during that part where you rest for the four measures; so you can actually just play this part right there if you wanted to so you’re not just sitting there twiddling your thumbs for four measures.
Now with this again, we got this kind of dissonant thing going on here. So we’ve got the sixth string open and it’s an eighth note, but we rest on the & so it’s like one &, two &, three &, and then on the & of three we go to the 6th fret of the fifth string and we pick that note and then we have a rest, so that’s one measure and each measures is the same except for the fourth one. Then on the fourth one we just hit that 6th fret and we slide out of it and then from there it goes into the main riff, probably the most recognizable riff from the song, the one that if you play this people will probably recognize it, like I said it’s fun to play and this is like said just the intro, but they do play this riff during the verse as well.
So after you slide out of that 6th fret, then we’ve got 6th string open and then we go to the third fret of the fifth string and we’re gonna pick that into a hammer-on to the fifth fret and then the sixth string open twice again, but we’re gonna palm mute it, so then we go to the fourth string third fret with first finger and we’re gonna pick that and then do a hammer-on to the fourth fret with our second finger.
So the first measure and then from there we follow that with the fifth fret of the fifth string with your third finger and then the sixth string open again. Then I go to the second fret and we’re gonna bar our first fingers across the six and the fifth strings and we’re gonna go to the second fret. So you can pick that or you can slide it back and forth. What I like about riffs like this is it’s got a little bit of a swing to it, so it’s really fun to kind of mess around with that timing and the technique of what you’re doing and just make it sound kind of however you want.
So that’s the first two measures, measure 17 and 18 is the riff and then measures 19 and 20 is just the same thing and then it repeats, so you just end up doing this entire sequence like four times and that’s it for the whole intro and then from there it goes into the verse and like I said the verse is the same thing but, he just kind of palm mutes.
Alright so I hope you enjoyed Killer Riff From “Killing in The Name” and you got something out of it. If you liked the video give me a thumbs up and leave a comment down below if there’s something you’d like to see covered by myself or one of the other instructors at GuitarControl.com do in a future lesson. That’s all I’ve got for you today. Have a great day!
If you dig Neo Soul then you should check out Learn How To Play a Cool Neo Soul Groove Pattern On Guitar – Jazzy Guitar Lesson w/ Matias Rengel. Matias is Guitar Controls resident Funk and Soul guru and with the step by step video instruction and the included tabs (just click the link) you will be see why and will be rockin’ in record time.
Hey, this is Matias Rengel with Guitar Control, we’ll be learning this really cool “Neo Soul Groove in Pattern”.
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Start by playing this at a slower speed, this is a really cool progression and the pattern is very interesting because it’s combining a little bit of a slides, it’s also combining chords with melody without stopping without removing the chords because sometimes when we play core melodies we stop playing the chord and it sounds empty but this one combines it’s more of like an arpeggio but we’re actually playing it with the people not like chord and lick at the same time so what I would like to do is to start off with this very interesting interval of a fourth which is a specific distance between two notes. So a perfect fourth has five half steps in between the two notes let’s say I’m here five half steps equal fret so what I’m doing is I’m on the 11th fret of the 3rd string and all for the sake of string two frets above and then I bring it down to the same and go down. Index on the 8th fret and the middle finger is on the 9th fret and from the original one we have here 11 and then I go down on my index from the 4th fret and the ring and the middle finger is in the 5th fret by the way this is still in the 3rd and 2nd string and I just slide it two frets up so it comes out to what I’m doing.
You can totally do either the same notes but muted before like it might be a little bit and when you’re finished you play the 6th fret of the 4th string and then you go into this part so when I do for this I’m playing the 6th string and played it twice on the sampling actually a beat that’s going to be in fact let’s play the chords first in order to play what I’m doing is going to be C for the first or we got the B major index finger all across the 7th fret then I got finger on the 9th fret of the 5th string key finger on the 9th for the fourth and middle finger on the 8th fret of the 3rd. The next chord is just basically moving these two frets and removing the middle finger we got you’re C#minor and then we go back to this one the B major role in the movie do is bring that 1, 2, 3, frets and remove this one again the middle that’s our G sharp and on the final chord we have the major 7 this I got the next finger once again on the 7th fret very easy actually bring down the ring finger to the 9th fret of the fourth middle finger to the 8th fret and then what I do is I strum it up to this 2nd fret 2nd string with my pinky do the 9th fret of the 2nd and the 1st string which is already on the 2nd fret pinky down to a 9th fret and then I go to the next chord to this 1st string, the first string with the pinky you play the 1st string 12 further the 2nd string remove the pinky and naturally right there we’ve got the 9th fret of the 2nd string so similar thing but in this core you see I’m doing here, this time I’m going to play the core up to 2nd string and then I play the pinky on the 7th fret 1st string 4th fret and then with the pinky on the 6th fret of the 1st string.
Now the final chord I play it up to the 2nd string bring it down to the original position which is on the 9th fret I’ll be pinkie into the 9th fret of the 3rd did not show you right now we got the 8th fret of that and you all of course this one starts.
I hope you’ve enjoyed this lesson there’s a link in the description so make sure you click on it or tap on it to download the tab and make sure to subscribe on our You Tube Channel and we’ll see you in our next video lessons, thanks for watching.
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