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Learn how to identify and use “passing tones” in your guitar solos. This is especially important if you want to be able to improvise confidently, as passing tones should be played in a particular way to avoid dissonance.

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E minor scale ascending and descending modal lick using alternate picking along with alternate endings . this Exercise will help you to pick faster,,, the key to playing fast is to use the metronome … pick a speed that you can play what you are playing perfectly … and gradually bump up your speed on the metronome

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Scorpions guitarrists’ Mathias Jabs and Rudolph Schenker in a guitar lesson teaching the fans how to play No One Like You and Rock you like a Hurricane, and also talking about the way they composed each one.

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The E minor pentatonic scale!

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All I ask is that you have a little experience already with the guitar.Be able play some chords and maybe a song, perhaps you’ve experimented with your fingers?
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We can learn songs, how to write songs, chords and theory, scales, fingerstyle guitar, rock, country chicken pickin, some jazz, blues, and the learning never stops!

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Any decent rock songs that’ll be simple and generally easy to learn in between by guitar lessons (get bored easily.)

Only full rock song I’ve learnt so far is Wasted Years by Iron Maiden.

Links to tabs would be really helpful.

i’m not sure but my friend found it really easy to learn

Na Na Na (Na Na Na) – My Chemical Romance

My teacher just says to do 10 or 20 minutes but i do it for a few hours, not all in a row but a 2 or 3 hours a day, sometimes slowly to get the fingering right and sometimes faster for speed, i only just started it so should I be able to do simple solos in a few months, or is a few hours a day not much? I know theres mores scales to learn and i dont expect to be shredding overnight but just those simple twangy kind of solos.

Hi

A 10 to 20 min practice is the least you can do. You should practice pentatonic, then move on to something else. Then return to pentatonic and move to something else etc…etc..

Don’t just stickto pentatonic scales. You will limit yourself. Do practice scales as well and then, throw in the pentatonic scale in -between the scales.
Ex….C major scale going up and pentatonic going down and vice versa..

If so,what if the guitar is tuned in a different tuning?Do I have to learn MORE scales?

Scordatura tuning aside, the importance and usefulness of learning scales on the guitar fingerboard has mainly to do with finger phrasing technique. To develop fluidity on melodic progressions, scales are the pathway because so many melodies use scale fragments. The notation is not the important feature but rather fingering facility. Smoothness on the guitar fingerboard depends largely upon melodic-progression skills and scales are a part of that skill.

If you have been playing the guitar for some time, you will already know the geometry of the fingerboard. So that a scale in D-major for instance at the 7th fret is no different to finger than the scale of A-major at the 2nd fret, or the Bb-major scale at the 3rd fret. The fingering (though not the notes) is exactly the same for each scale. Regularly playing these scale patterns up and down the fingerboard will help you learn the fingerboard notes as well as gain facility with smooth progressions.

In the open position, notice the similarities of the E-major and A-major scales. The G-major scale in open position is the model (template) for 4-string upper-fret scales. Barring of course is required on the upper positions, so barring strengths (such as finger independence) are developed as well. All in all, some faithful scale practice as a warm-up exercise will pay big dividends. The importance is primarily pattern recognition not just notes.

For dropped-D tuning, only the 6th string is re-pitched and can be accommodated easily in most chords. A lot of scordatura scale practice is not needed.

I wish you well in this worthy pursuit.

Cliff E.Classic guitarist)

Ok…so here’s the thing. I’m really interested in learning how to play guitar. I love music and I’m not completley dumb about it, however it’s one of those questions that I should already know the answer to, but I don’t! And another thing is…there are alot of lead singers that also play guitars in their bands, which one are they playing? Lead or rhythm?

One last thing, i need some suggestions on what would be a good guitar that’s fairly cheap to learn on, and what’s the best way to learn? Actual lessons from someone or independently?

Any help will be greatly appreciated. thanks.
oh and by the way i’m not sure if this is pertinent info or not…but i am a girl. i’m 5’1" and weigh just a lil over 100 lbs. not sure if guitars come in diff. sizes or not is why i was adding this lil piece of info.
so far….dalton and hawk have given me the best advice! =)
thanks guys. i appreciate it.

The difference between rhythm and lead guitar is that rhythm plays the chords and follows a very steady sequence throughout the song, whereas the lead plays the solos, riffs or melody lines, as well as ‘dancing’ around the rythm guitar part to support it.

A good beginner guitar would be a low end Ibanez or a Squier Stratocaster.

Hope this helps

hey guys. im getting into the blues and i want to know what the proper scales are. i go on ultimate-guitar quite a lot and there appears to be two lessons that are both good although different. i was wondering which lesson was more correct in terms of the scales. so if anyone could help me out many thanks!

http://www.ultimate-guitar.com/lessons/music_styles/blues_scales_and_progressions.html – i’ve been using that one alot..seems to be pretty good.

and theres this one..?!

http://www.ultimate-guitar.com/lessons/scales/blues_scales.html

i dunno know about the second one
but
the first ones spot on
i use it all the time all over the neck
probably my favorite scale