How To Sound Like Slash

How To Sound Like Slash

Presence: 7
Bass: 8
Middle: 6
Treble: 6
Master Volume 1: 3
Gain control 1: 7
Gain Control 2: 3 

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Should I Buy Glass or Metal Slide For Slide Guitar

Many say you need a glass slide to get the real sound of slide guitar.

• Glass Slides have a mellow sound but can break
• Chrome Slides can be cold sounding and lacking in character
• Brass Slides are warmer with more mid range and some say have more sustain than glass

Top Tip: A Guitar With A Raised Action Works and Sounds Much Better

Most importantly buy a slide that fits your finger 

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Do I Need To Learn To Read Music To Play Guitar?

The simple answer to the above question is no. Many top guitarists don’t read music. This doesn’t however mean that you should dismiss ever learning to read music.

The beginner guitarist learning chords and strumming song realises quite quickly that you can do a lot on guitar without knowing a note of music.

Learning more complicated pieces using guitar tablature can be achieved and you still haven’t learnt a note of music.

Learning scale shapes too means you can play lead without knowing all the names of the notes.

One thing that stops people learning to read music is that they assume it’s too difficult.

Without getting to in depth musical notes go from A to G. There are no sharps or flats between Band C or E and F.

Musical Alphabet goes: A/A#.Bb/B/C/C#.Db/D/D#.Eb/E/F/F#.Gb/G/G#.Ab/A

 

Plus Points of Reading Music

1.       Understanding of Other Musical Instruments

2.       Playing Music You Haven’t Heard before

3.       Finding Root Notes of Chords and Scales

4.       Understanding Chord Names

5.       Writing Down Your Ideas Accurately

6.       Editing Midi Software

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What Will I Learn From Guitar Lessons(www.rock-licks.com South Shields)

What Will I Learn From Guitar Lessons

We’ll look at the CAGED system to learn chords. This will mean you will know

• ·         Major Minor and 7^th Chords in open positions (All other chord types)
• ·         All above chords in five positions covering the entire guitar neck
• ·         Barre Chords
• ·         Understanding Chord names

Understanding the Guitar Neck

You will learn to be able to work out the names of all the notes on the fret board.  Understanding the musical alphabet enables the student to easily work out notes on guitar.

Scales

• ·         Pentatonic Scale Major/Minor in all keys
• ·         Blues Scale in all keys
• ·         Major Scales in all keys
• ·         Modes (Ionian/Dorian/Phrygian/Lydian/Mixolydian/Aeolian/Locrian
• ·         Harmonic Minor Scale
• ·         Diminished and Symmetrical Scale
• Understanding Key Signatures
• ·         Cycle of Fiths
• ·         Chords in All Keys
• ·         Relative Major and Minor Keys

How To Read Guitar Tablature

Guitar Tablature is a very popular and easy way to learn to play guitar pieces without necessarily having to learn to read music.

How To Read Music

Many guitarists don’t learn to read music. One reason is people think it’s going to be difficult or that it is unnecessary. Though learning to read music is optional realising how easy it is encourages students to learn.

Technique

• ·         Strumming and Rhythm
• ·         Finger Picking
• ·         Lead Guitar (String Bends/ Vibrato)
• ·         Arpeggios
• ·         Sweep Picking
• ·         Two Hand Tapping

How To Write Songs

• ·         Understanding Popular Chord Progressions
• ·         Song Structure
• ·         Writing a Guitar Solo

How To Play With a Band

• ·         Timing
• ·         Using Backing Tracks
• ·         Memorizing Songs

Recording

• ·         Software (Cubase/Guitar Rig/Amplitube)
• ·         Setting Up Amp
• ·         Guitar Tone
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Biggest Mistakes the Beginner Guitarist Makes

Is Self Taught The Best Way?

Many guitarists wear the ‘Self Taught Badge’ with pride. Claiming to be self taught creates the illusion that you thought of everything all by yourself.

If you don’t have a guitar teacher you will no doubt have to look into guitar teach books which on your own can be quite difficult to understand. Knowing someone who already plays guitar is the next place to pick up information about how to play.

All of this is a bit random and a bit of trial and error approach. You wouldn’t go to a self taught heart surgeon who learned his craft through trial and error!!!

Getting lessons from a good teacher will help you progress much faster.

Example: I have a 12 year old student with no past experience on guitar. The student has had 5 lessons and can now play all Major, Minor and Seventh Chords in open and barre chord positions.

Would that be possible by self teaching?

Jimi Hendrix Didn’t Read Music He Just Had Natural Talent!

‘I don’t have the natural talent’ is often the excuse of the under achieving musician.

It’s a bit misleading t believe that just because someone doesn’t read music that their musical ability must be therefore be natural God given at birth.

Many rock musicians don’t read music but they learned chords and scales. They also know where the notes on their instrument are too.

Always Practice Sitting Down?

Last time I looked most guitarists perform standing up! BB King has earned the right to sit when playing. But would Slash at the end of the November Rain video looked at half as cool if he had of walked out of the church and took a seat before he played the outro solo!!!!!!!

We all fall into the trap of practicing sitting down then have difficulty playing our stuff when standing up.

Practice Without Plugging Into Amp?

These days luckily for my neighbour’s guitar amps come with headphone sockets.

Too many times we practice a solo unplugged only to find when we plug into our amp with Metal Insane setting and it all sounds like a horrible mess.

The Rock guitarist by definition wants to show off. To show off you need to be loud!!!!!

Identifying the Repeated Chord Progression

You have your song and chords sheet. But you can’t memorize the song. Only with the sheet of paper can you possibly perform it????

Will you memorize D C G D D C G D D C G D D C G D ??? Which is a 16 chord sequence.

Or will you read it as (D C G D) x4  A lot easier.

Too many beginners aren’t told that a song is a series of repeated chord patterns.

Many songs are Verse Verse Chorus Verse Chorus Chorus.

Each verse has the same chord progression. The Chorus is the same every time its played.

There’s So Many Chords To Remember!!

As a beginner guitarist you’ll be taught to memorize chord shapes. There are so many shapes in your chord dictionary it won’t be long before your brain has turned into scrambled egg.

Seriously take my advice check out the CAGED system. In simple terms all chords can be worked out from the simple shapes of the C Chord A Chord G Chord E Chord D Chord.

It’s well worth asking your guitar teacher about it. You can burn that chord dictionary.

Scales Are Boring!!

Scales are boring if you just run up and down them endlessly.

Start out with pentatonic and blues scale and learn how to make a blues solo. Suddenly scales are cool.

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The pentatonic scale

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The CAGED Guitar System Explained

The CAGED Guitar System Explained

The CAGED guitar system can be very useful to help you find your way around the fretboard. The idea is based on the relationship between common major chord and major scale shapes. It is also a very useful method for visualising chord tones across the neck of the guitar. If you can easily find the notes on the fifth and sixth strings of the guitar then all it takes is a bit of practice with the CAGED system and you will be able to find any major chord tone very easily anywhere on the neck. There are two main things you need to learn. The first is the order of the chords always remains in the same sequence C A G E D starting from the C or if you were starting from the G then the order would be G E D C A because after the D chord it starts over again from the C. This makes more sense when you can see it in diagram form as shown below.

Study the picture above and note how the five chord patterns overlap with each other. Once you get used to visualising the CAGED chords across the neck like this you will find chord tones very easy. Don’t forget the order stays the same, G will always overlap with E etc. The next picture shows the same CAGED sequence starting from a different place to give you the idea.

  

 The CAGED system also helps us with playing the major scales. As you have seen in the example above it’s quite easy to get used to the finding the chord tones anywhere on the neck as long as you can quickly find the root notes on the guitar strings. When you learn the major scale positions for the guitar it is a lot to have to remember. This gets even harder when you have to think about these positions in twelve different keys. By combining the major scales with the CAGED sequence of chords this task becomes much easier. By getting used to the relationship between the chords and the scales you will start to realise that remembering these scale positions and being able to find them in any key becomes a lot easier. Study the diagrams below and practice playing with these chord shapes and scales across the fretboard. It might seem a lot of work at first but you will get used to it quite quickly. The CAGED guitar system is a great method to help you find your way around the neck so keep at it and in a few months you should playing the guitar without thinking.

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