Very simple right? You don’t even have to move your hand or play one of those “awkward” barre
chords. Now let’s check out the same chords but adding a rhythm to them:
Now it sounds complete right? Just learn the lyrics and the melody and you are good to go;
you’ve got yourself a great cover to play anywhere you want.
The last song I wanna show you is a complete different style of music. The song I’m talking
about is “Jamming” by Bob Marley & The Wailers. Jamming is a reggae song, and it’s
progression and melody is so unique that it has become a legend among reggae songs, as
many of other Bob Marley’s song have. Let’s check out the chord progression with the rhythm
included:
There are many ways to play this style. One thing for sure is that you have to lift the pressure off
the strings whenever you see an “X”, but don’t remove your fingers from the string. Remember,
you are trying to achieve a muted sound. For the pick pattern you could play all downstrokes or
use an alternate picking technique.
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power chords.
Let me just start off by saying that Rock music itself has played a huge role in shaping today’s
music and society. Most people don’t really notice this but even EDM music is very influenced
by rock. So how do we play it anyway? Well, to me if there’s one thing that screams Rock, it’s
Power Chords. Power Chords are the basis of any heavy music; put some distortion on and
throw an E5 (or E power chord) plus some crazy drum fills and there you go… you can’t deny
you don’t picture yourself playing a sold out Arena show full of headbanging fans; you know it,
it’s Rock.
Let’s take a look at the following chords:
These are some of the basic power chords you will encounter in any heavy music situacion, or
even in Pop. There are different ways of positioning your fingers, for example:
● For the C5 you could place your Index finger on the 3rd fret (5th string), the ring finger on
the 5th fret (4th string) and your pinky finger on the 5th fret (3rd string.
● For C5 you could also place your index finger on the 3rd fret (5th string) and your ring
finger as a barre for the 4th and 3rd string on the 5th fret. This fingering is extremely
useful in certain situations. with another technique that is used very often in rock music,
“Palm Muting”. To use palm muting you have to lean the right side of your picking hand on the
strings near the bridge. You shouldn’t completely mute the string but create an almost muted
type of sound. The more you move further away from the bridge, the more you will mute the
string.
In this example not all the notes are palm muted. For the chords that are open you should move
your hand away from the string using your wrist, keeping your arm in place.
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First, you’ll notice the tab has the open strings labeled, starting with the high E string at the top (e) and the low E at the bottom (E). This mirrors your actual guitar when you’re looking at it from above while playing, so it’s a good way to visualize the notes. The numbers represent the frets to play on each string, and you read it left to right, like you would read anything else. If two numbers are on top of each other, or on the same vertical, it means they are to be played simultaneously. To spot chords, you’ll notice them easily this way.
Another good organizational method for tabs are the vertical bars which you might notice stand for bars or measures. Any good tab will have these so you know where you are in the song. Without them, it’s easy to lose track. For acoustic songs or songs that mainly use chords, sometimes the name of the chord is simply written above the measures so you know when to change. You’ll notice this in the example tab from “Mood for a Day” by Yes.
Finally, a good tab guitar song will usually include some extra information regarding palm-muting, hammer-ons, pull-offs, slides, and others. Slides are represented by a slash (“/” when sliding up or “\” when sliding down), hammer-ons by “h” and pull-offs by “p” (these usually are written next to the fret numbers or right above the numbers, depending on who’s tabbing it), and palm-muting by “pm” with dashes that show for how long you should palm-mute.
While tabs are great for learning new songs, it would also be a good idea to learn to read music as well, or play songs by ear. Everything you learn will only help you in your quest to becoming a great guitar player.
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]]>So you’ve sharpened your chops and you’re looking for a challenge? There are a lot of easy guitar songs to play, but there are just as many songs out there that only the best of the best can attempt. Here are a few of the hardest guitar songs you’ll ever attempt.
Let’s start with “Blitzkrieg” by Yngwie Malmsteen. Famous for his incorporation of classical scales, almost anything by Yngwie is pretty intense and hard to play. This may be one of his hardest guitar songs yet. Lots of fast passages that need a legato touch make this one a challenge for even the most hardened player.
“Little Wing” by Jimi Hendrix makes my list of hardest guitar songs. I know it’s a slow one, but the passages are primarily 16th notes, and to get all of the subtle nuances in there, as well as the timing, takes some skill. It’s not completely out of reach, but you’ve got to have some chops to hit the notes on cue.
“Eruption” by Eddie Van Halen is difficult if you want to use the exact techniques he uses to get the notes. A lot of the song is tapped, which sometimes makes a piece sound harder than it really is, but here Eddie’s use of the 16th note triplets really puts a challenge in front of you. This will test your limits for sure.
Eric Johnson’s “Cliffs of Dover” incorporates a lot of smooth legato playing, stretches, and changing tempos, making it difficult to play well. Beautiful song with a lot of textures and nuances that make this instrumental track, and Eric himself, a favorite among guitar aficionados.
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There are a lot of hard guitar songs, but the hardest guitar songs to play come from a lot of the same players. Joe Satriani has written some extremely hard stuff, notably “Satch Boogie” and “Voodoo Chile” by Jimi Hendrix is another guitar challenge. Metallica’s “Blackened” also checks in as one of my picks for hardest guitar songs to play. If you’re looking for challenging guitar riffs and hard songs, there are as many to choose from as there are excellent guitarists to play them.
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Hey guys! Gaby Soule here from GuitarControl.com, today we’re going to take a look at fingerpicking guitar songs.
Fingerstyle playing was for many years a type of technique that everybody associated to acoustic or nylon string performers. It has always worked great in country and bluegrass guitar, as well as in classical music or flamenco, everybody agreed that playing with your right hand fingers was an old standard and also a respected tradition.
One of the main applications of this useful tool was, and still is, the possibility of playing a melody with bass notes or even chord accompaniment at the same time. That was a really different thing by then, quite beyond the reach of most standard plectrum picking players, before the concept of hybrid picking even appeared.
New players finally came out and their influence left an important trace. Many of them had learnt simultaneously from rock and country players, and other similar combinations, so the mix of styles and genres became a style itself, and the frontiers between picking styles and techniques started to disappear little by little.
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Nowadays there are a lot of guitarists that have decided to incorporate fingerpicking even if they have already achieved an efficient picking technique. This happens to be particularly useful as an expression resource that will allow any guitar player to perform different type of things, such as melodies, arpeggios, comping, and others with less or none effort.
Some of the things that may result interesting to anyone who is trying to get into fingerpicking is that chords and arpeggios sound very fluidly and natural. Of course, just like it happens with every guitar skill, this one needs to be incorporated and improved by a constant and efficient practice.
There are tons of great classic rock, blues, country songs and, of course, classical music pieces that you can learn to develop your fingerstyle. And there are many others that can be adapted to this technique in order to make it more natural to you by playing not only exercises but also music that inspires you.
Keep on playing! See you soon!
Gaby
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Guitar tabs are one of the greatest ways to figure out songs quickly, especially when you are wondering how a certain song, riff, solo or lick is really executed by the guitar players that we like listening to.
You can get all the details that are hard to figure out in a live video by reading a tab, since they are meant to describe precisely every note in terms of frets, strings, and even fingering or picking, plus other expression signs such as bends, slides, legato, tremolo bar, harmonics, vibrato and much more.
The first step would be to start with simple tabs, where you only need to find the notes on the fretboard.
Then it would be great to start incorporating the most widely spread guitar tab signs, which are basically all those that I mentioned before but in this case it is particularly important to realize that the type of piece, solo, phrase, etc, that you are trying to learn will determine which signs are more commonly used in that specific style.
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Let’s say, as an example, that if you are studying a Van Halen solo, you’ll need to understand the signs that are related, for instance, to the use of the tremolo bar and to the two-handed tapping technique, while if you are trying to get into an Eric Clapton’s riff or lick, you are going to need some bending and sliding reading skills.
Another useful thing is trying to concentrate on the parts of a song that you can play with a certain ease, rather than focusing on those that are too hard for you, at least for now. If you are starting to play a song you really like, and the intro works great for you, but the solo is still too complex for your current technique, don’t stop playing the intro or any other part of the song. Keep on working on it, using all the riffs, chords and melodies that match with the technical level that you feel comfortable with.
Keep on playing! See you soon!
Gaby
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I love making lists about music. A list featuring the top 100 of anything having to do with music is going to be a subjective list. My favorite guitar players aren’t your favorite guitar players, my favorite singers or albums won’t be your favorite singers or albums. Still, these lists are fun to make.
The top 100 guitar songs is a challenging list. Throughout the history of music, there have been some great guitar songs. How far back do you go? How do you measure a great guitar song? Is it the solo, is it the overall song? Are we talking about songs that are great for electric, acoustic, or both? The top 100 guitar songs is certainly subjective, but I’m going to go for it. Here are 100 guitar songs I think are fantastic. The criteria is loose to be sure. I base this list on some of the elements I mentioned above, and some make this list because they are, by default, consider by fans to be great guitar songs. The top 100 guitar songs listed here are by no means listed in any particular order.
1. Born to Be Wild
2. Stairway to Heaven
3. Rock and Roll all Nite
4. Highway to Hell
5. Back in Black
6. Shook Me all Night Long
7. Hotel California
8. Purple Haze
9. All Along the Watchtower
10. Layla
11. Sweet Child O Mine
12. Crazy Train
13. Whole Lotta Love
14. Sympathy for the Devil
15. Beast of Burden
16. Patience
17. Maggie May
18. Have You Ever Seen the Rain
19. Sultans of Swing
20. Stranglehold
21. Cat Scratch Fever
22. Free for All
23. More Than a Feeling
24. Long Time
25. The Joker
26. Wanted Dead or Alive
27. Johnny B. Goode
28. Brown Sugar
29. Little Wing
30. Surrender
31. I Want You to Want Me
32. Freebird
33. Night Moves
34. Hollywood Nights
35. Travelin’ Man
36. Beautiful Loser
37. Born to Run
38. Bad to the Bone
39. You Wear It Well
40. Hot Legs
41. I Ain’t Superstitious
42. Black Sabbath
43. Iron Man
44. Smoke on the Water
45. Statesboro Blues
46. Ramblin’ Man
47. Start Me Up
48. Take It Easy
49. While My Guitar Gently Weeps
50. White Room
51. Summer of 69
52. La Grange
53. Photograph
54. Rock You Like a Hurricane
55. Roll Over Beethoven
56. Sweet Little Rock ‘n’ Roller
57. Money for Nothin’
58. Refugee
59. Satisfaction
60. Feel Like Makin’ Love
61. Every Rose Has It’s Thorn
62. Rock N Me
63. Fade to Black
64. Enter Sandman
65. Smells Like Teen Spirit
66. Runnin’ with the Devil
67. Eruption
68. Surfing with the Alien
69. Purple Rain
70. Crossroads
71. Let There Be Rock
72. The Boys Are back in Town
73. Jailbreak
74. Cowboy Song
75. Born to Run
76. Comfortably Numb
77. Texas Flood
78. Fade to Black
79. Reelin’ in the Years
80. After the Thrill Is Gone
81. You Really Got Me
82. Master of Puppets
83. Money
84. Won’ Get Fooled Again
85. Walk This Way
86. Sweet Emotion
87. Honky Tonk Woman
88. There’s Only One Way To Rock
89. Baba O Reilly
90. Tush
91. Gimme all Your Lovin’
92. Wonderful Tonight
93. Sunshne of Your Love
94. Lay Down Sally
95. Come Sail Away
96. Renegade
97. Blue Collar Man
98. Ridin’ the Storm Out
99. Sweet Home Alabama
100. Like a Rolling Stone
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That’s it. The top 100 guitar songs. Feel free to make your own list. This is a subjective topic and one that’s fun to visit.
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