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Hey, how’s it going this is Darren Goodman with Guitar Control, in this video lesson I will show you how to play an “Easy Country Blues Riff” by yours truly. I really dig the sound of country blues and listen to it, when I started trying to play it, I realized that it was a …
Hey, how’s it going this is Darrin Goodman with Guitar Control, I want to show you a little sequence from Yngwie Malmsteen song “I’ll see the light tonight”.
A little part that he like harmonizes with the keyboards right before the guitar solo and stuff but this is a really good exercise for alternate picking and for working out your fretting hand as well you know moving around through these positions and stuff and he plays this like really fast but you know I’m not even going to attempt to do that it doesn’t really matter you know I mean if you work it up and you play really fast that’s great but it doesn’t have to be played fast to be you beneficial and pretty cool sounding.
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Like I said this is all alternate picking so that means no two down strokes in a row no two up strokes in a row just down, up, down, up, down, up. For the first position most of this is on the first string by the way on the 10th fret of the 1st string with your first finger and then the other two notes from the 12th fret with your third finger and the 13th fret with your fourth finger now you could do this you know 1st, 2nd the 3rd or recommend if you’re a beginner you really get used to using your pinky it just really makes a big difference on a lot of stuff you know if I’m playing up really high above the 12th fret a lot of times I won’t use my pinky just because the frets are closer together and you know things can tend to get a little cramped but for you know anything below that it’s the opposite if you’re trying to go you know make these big stretches you know between your first and second and your third finger it’s that can be a little awkward too so I really recommend that you do it this way. We’ve got 10 and then we go to 13 and then 12 and then back to 13 so each one of these things if you think of it it’s three notes so 1, 2, 3, the pattern is 1, 3, 2, 3, so for this first section we’re going to shape and we’re going to play it twice.
Now we just move down into the next position so notes 1 and 2 become notes 2 & 3 so now we’re going to move our fourth finger from the 13th fret to the 12th and now our second finger on the 10th and our first finger on the 8th. Now this is how I like to do it some people like to do this they you know they like to make the stretch there that it’s just not comfortable for me to do that if you have longer fingers then this might be the way to go I’ve just kind of noticed that the players who are blessed with those you know awesome guitar player hands which I am NOT you know players like Paul Gilbert or Ebay or Steve Vai you know they all have you know really long fingers and I’ll notice that they tend to do those shapes that way so remember first shape now our second shape so now we’re going to be 8, 12 and we move down into the next position again so our first finger goes to seven fourth finger goes to ten and second finger is at 8 and then we move down again so now we’re 5, 7, and 8, so this whole first part.
Now for the next section which is like staff number two we go back up to the 1st shape and we only play it once though this time now we’re going to skip the 2nd shape and go to the 3rd one we go down we’re 7, 8, and 10 and then we go back up and get the one that we skipped a 12 and 12 and now again we’re going to skip and go down 5, 7, and 8 back up to 7, 10, and eight.
Now we’re going to come all the way down for 7 and 5 and then back to 5, 7, and 8 and we do that one twice so that whole sequence all right and then for the second half of that we go back to 4, 5, and 7 again and then all the way back up to the 1st shapes of 10, 1, and 13 and then down 1, 2, 8, 10, and 12, twice now we go to the very first one and now it’s now it’s where we change we’re going to move on to other strings so we do it once here 10, 12, and 13, on the 1st string and now we go to the 2nd string 9, 12, 10, to the 3rd string 7, 10, and 9, and now 4th string 6, 7, and 9 now to the 5th string 5, 7, and 8 but we are changing the sequence a little bit now we’re going to go instead of like 1, 3, 2, 3, and then back to the 4th string same frets but we’re also going to do that same thing so we’re going to go and then that last part just like that.
I hope you enjoyed that and you got something out of it if you liked the video give me a thumbs up leave a comment down below if there’s something you’d like to see either myself or one of the other instructors at guitarcontrol.com do in a future lesson so like I said aside from this just being you know kind of a cool sounding riff and stuff it’s a great workout for both of your hands one you’re working with alternate picking and it’s like an endurance thing just to keep going and then with your fretting hand it’s you’re basically getting exercise for all four fingers and you’re having to move through these positions and stuff so it just kind of helps you to like visualize places to go on the on the fret board all right so that’s all I’ve got for you today.
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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.
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!
Check out this free lesson from Guitar Control instructor Darrin Goodman on how to play Someone You Loved By Lewis Capaldi. Be sure to get the free tabs that go along with this killer lesson.
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Hey everybody how’s it going? This is Darrin Goodman with GuitarControl.com bringing you this video lesson. Today I want to show you how to play this finger style song for beginners. It’s Someone You Loved by Luis Capaldi, I guess I’m saying that right.
Anyway this song is originally on piano, but I transposed it for guitar, it’s a great beginner song for getting into finger style playing. So be sure to click on the link in the description for the tabs and let’s get close up and take a look.
Alright so first let’s take a look at the chords that we’re gonna be using for the first part of the song. So for the intro and the verse we have C; so I’m on the third fret of the fifth string with my third finger, second fret of the fourth string with my second finger, third string is open, first fret of the second string with my first finger and the first string is open.
And we have G; third fret of the sixth string with my second finger, second fret of the fifth string with my first finger, strings four and three are open and I’m on the third fret of the second string with my third finger and third fret of the first string with my fourth finger. Then A minor; fifth string is open, second fret of the fourth string with my second finger, second fret of the third string with third finger, first fret of the second string with first finger and first string is open.
Then we have F major seven; I’m on the third fret of the fourth string with my third finger, second fret of the third string with my second finger, 1st fret of the second string with my first finger and the first string is open. And then F major; so if you just take this F major 7 shape, but you just roll your first finger down so you’re barring the first fret of the 1st and the 2nd strings.
All right so the intro and the verse are the same thing. So for the intro we just play through this progression once. You start with C and we have a full measure of C and we’re playing this as eighth notes.
So my first finger is going to be on the 4th string, my second finger on the 3rd and my third finger on the second string and then my thumb will be playing the bass note on the fifth string. So you’re going to pluck strings 2, 3 and 4 together and then follow that with your thumb on the bass note, so it’s all eighth notes; so it’s two, three and four and now if you are new to a finger style playing what I always recommend is that you just rest your elbow just on the back bout here on the guitar and that way you can just bring your arm down and have your arm completely straight, you don’t want it all bent up like this and when I pluck these strings you don’t want to pull away like this, you want this motion like you’re pulling a trigger, you want to curl your fingers in towards the palm of your hand and then follow that with the down stroke on your thumb.
So for the first measure; one, two, three, four and this is relatively quick… but we’re gonna play it slow and you should work on it slow and then get it down to where you make the changes in time and then just gradually increase your speed. So one measure of C then we switch to G, so we’re gonna keep our fingers on the same strings, but we’re gonna move our thumb from playing the bass note on the fifth string to the sixth string and we do a full measure of this the same way. And A minor; so now our thumb goes back, we’re still on the same strings with our fingers but we’re our thumb is gonna go back to the fifth string for our bass note and three and four.
Then when we go to FM7 we’re gonna move everything on your picking hand; so now our thumb is playing the bass note on the fourth string, our first finger is playing the third string, second finger playing the second string and third finger playing the first string. Now on this it’s a little bit different, so we’re gonna one-and two-and three-and and then on four we’re gonna roll our finger up like we did earlier to make an F major, four, four and two and three and four. So that whole intro slowly…
Now it goes through that sequence like that for the intro and then when it goes to the verse it’s the same thing, but you do it four times. So after you do that one time through you just immediately start over again with the verse where the vocals come in four times. Now that leads us into the chorus.
Now for the chorus it’s the same chords in the same order, except the last major is just all F major no F major seven, but now we’re gonna change how we’re doing it a little bit. So now we’re gonna go just straight up finger-picking; so we’re playing bass note with our thumb on the fifth string and that’s a quarter note, so it’s like 1 and then we put our first finger on the 3rd string, 2nd on the second string and 3rd on the 1st string, so it’s 1, 2 & 3 & 4. And then for the end of 4; it’s the 4th string, so there’s a couple of ways you can do this, you could 1 2 & 3 & 4 & and then play that 4th string with your thumb, but I tend to just because I’m coming back down I just use my first finger to get that string again but, that’s just a personal preference, it’s just the way that I play.
So we have that first measure C; 1 2 & 3 & 4 & and the next measure is go to G, so now it’s all eighth notes on this one, so thumb is playing the bass note on the 6th string, first finger on the fourth string, second finger on the third string, third finger on the second string, so one and two and. Now we shift up so our third finger is on the first string, second finger is on the 2nd string and 1st finger is on the 3rd string and three and four and then again go to the fourth string. I’m using my first finger, you can use your thumb, so one and two and three and four and then to A minor and we’re gonna do this one the exact same way that we did C; so thumbs on the fifth string, first finger on the third string, second finger on the second string and third finger on the first string, one, two and three and four and again you end with the fourth string.
Now we go to F and thumb is on the fourth string, first finger is on the third string, second finger is on the 2nd string and third finger is on the first string and now the picking patterns a little bit different. So calling off string names here we’re going 4, 3, 2, 3, one, two, three, four, one and two and three and four and, and that goes through twice, all right so that’s the chorus. Now at the end of the chorus you can see that it says at the top the musical direction for dal segno, if you don’t know musical direction that’s okay, we’re not going to get all into it right now but what that means is that you’re going to go back to the segno sign.
So if you look on your transcription you go back to the first verse at the very top of that there’s this kind of a fancy-looking S and that is the segno sign. So you’re going to play intro, verse, chorus, verse, chorus and then you move on. So the second time through you ignore that DS and then that leads us to the bridge.
So for the bridge we’re adding in one new chord, D minor; so fourth string is open, second fret of the third string with my second finger, third fret of the second string with my third finger and first fret of the first string with my first finger. So this is also the straight-up finger picking; so this is picked the same way that F was on the chorus. So all eighth notes and we keep our fingers on the same strings; we just move our thumb from the fourth string to the third string and do the same thing.
Now we go to G again and our fingers stay on the same place and now our bass note is moving to the sixth string; so now we’re gonna go six three two three one three two three one and two and three and four and. And then on for the fourth measure we’re still on G for the first half of it we go 6 3 2 3 and then we switch back to A minor and we move our thumb from the 6th string to the 5th string and we go 5 3 2 3. So that last measure and then it just repeats and you go back and do the whole thing again. All right, so then that leads us into the final chorus.
So for this final chorus we start off same chords, but it’s gonna be a little bit different. This time the first four measures of this we’re just going to C, G, A minor and F, but we’re going to just strum the chord as a whole note; so you’re like one two three four two three four two two three four, repeats one two three four and then back into the chorus before starting with C. And then we go to the we’re at the very last staff just like that.
All right, well I hope you enjoyed that and you got something out of it. Like I said this is aimed at you beginners, it’s just a good way to get work in that picking hand. Like I said it moves along fairly quickly. If you look the song up and listen to it and like I said it’s on the piano and it was transposed to guitar, but it’s in the same key, so if you’re in standard tuning you can play right along with it. Alright so 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 either myself or one of the other instructors at GuitarControl.com do in a future lesson. Anyway that’s all I got for you today, thanks for watching How To Play Someone You Loved By Lewis Capaldi and have a great day.
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Hey, how’s it going this is Darren Goodman with Guitar Control, in this video lesson I want to show you how to play a kind of cool rock and blues thing. This is something I wrote a long time ago and never really had a name for it, but a friend said hey this sounds like “Dirty Blues” so that’s what we’re going to call it.
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This first part revolves around A, so we’re going to be pedaling the fifth string open which is A. So we’ve got A twice and then we go to the seventh fret of the fourth string and then back to the fifth string open, then fifth fret and fourth string and fourth fret and then back up.
This string is being peddled fourth string we’re on seven and when I go back to that seven I’m sliding on to that first half and then for the second half it’s more or less the same it’s just one part changes. So on the second time, it says sliding up to seven to the third fret of the fifth string throw a vibrato. That’s the riff for the first part.
All right so you play it through all the way through once and then you start over. On a second time you play the first half, so second time through and then we stopped there on four, and then what I’m doing is I’m just lightly touching the string for harmonics and then alternate picking and descending because it gives that kind of cool little rock and vibe to it.
That leads us into the second part, for the second part this is very similar to a blue shuffle that you’ve probably done before. I’m on the second part of the fourth string with my first finger string is open. Again, we’re going to do that same kind of rhythm, the notes that we’re going to be changing are on the fourth string or to the second fret with your first finger on the fourth string and then to the fifth fret with fourth string with your fourth finger fourth fret with your third.
It’s the same rhythm were doing here, the same with pedaling that middle string between each time we change so here now calling off the frets for the fourth string just like on the last one of the first half, and the second half are almost the same it’s just the very end. The first time through, second time, third fret of the fifth string again we’re going to a C on both times, hopefully twice just like we did before the second time through it’s not the whole sequence.
The first half second time through, second half and then we’re going to do this little easy pull off lick. First finger on the second fret of the third string and then your third finger on the fourth fret and we’re going to pick and do the same thing on strings four and five and then we’re going to go down and we’re going to do the basically the exact same thing we did, but we’re going to do it on string six and five.
This time we’re going to the third fret of the sixth string, it’s a G instead of a C all right so this one just like before, will play through it twice but the second time through the second half is different so the second time through first half we’re going to do this little kind of climb thing, so we’re going to go power cord g5. We’re on the third fret of the sixth string with your first finger in the fifth fret of the fifth string with your third finger and we’re going to play that three times and it’s like triplets. Then we move up a half step that will leads us into the final part .
For this final part we’re going to be playing primarily on the fourth and the third string, you can do most of this with just your first finger. We’re going to do a slide from nowhere to the ninth fret to the seventh, and the fifth, and then when we get to that A, we’re going to strum the A take your second finger and go to the third fret of the fifth string which is C and we’re going to give a little bit of a bend.
Grab that third fret of the fifth string and then back to that third strings together and then we got this little kind of riff here at the end. So we have the A and we play it twice and then we do to the third fret of the fifth string with your second finger and then do a hammer on to the fourth fret and follow that second part of the third stage is an A.
Back into that original main riff, again you practice all the parts you know separately and then put them together and stuff. I hope you enjoyed that you got something out of it if you like this lesson be 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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