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Basic Guitar Playing - Part 2
'Jimmy Page’s double neck Epiphone'
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Published: Dec 10, 2006 5:31 p.m.
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Basic Guitar Playing - Part 2

This is part 2, if you are just a beginner, please refer back to part 1

In the other part, you learned about how to get a guitar, how to read tabs, standard tuning and amplification. I also showed some quick and easy tunes, and mentioned some harder ones.

In this part you will learn more advanced playing, which includes hammer-ons, pull offs, slides, fretboard tapping, bends, and palm muting

Let’s get started

Hammer-Ons

A hammer on is when you pluck on note, and move your finger to a note higher so when you pluck once, you make 2 sounds. Here is a tab that deminstrates this technique.

e---------------
B---------------
G---------------
D--------0-2--
A----0^2-------
E-3-------------

The ^ represents a hammer-on. It can also be represented as a H

This is "Wish You Were Here" - Pink Floyd


Pull Offs

A pull off is when yoou pluck a note, and pull your finger off the string so it makes 2 different sounds with one pluck. They are usually bended off.

On a tab. a pull off looks like this.

e---------------------
B---------------------
G-0^2p0--------0--
D-----------4p0-----
A----------------------
E----------------------

The "P" represents a pull off.

This is the opening riff for "Over the Hills and Far Away" Led-Zeppelin

Slides

A slide is when you pluck a note, and then slide your finger up or down to another note, making a very groovy, surf sounds.

e-------------------------------------
B-------3-2-------------------------
G-2^4-------2-4-2----------------
D---------------------4-/-2---------
A-----------------------------5-/-7--
E-------------------------------------

The slide is represented by a "/" or a slash
The first number means you start the slide there, and the second number means that where you slide it too.

Fretboard Tapping

Now this is pretty complicated, fretboard tapping is when you tap the frets to create a sound, good amplification is best for this. Hold your finger on 3rd fret G string for example. And with the finger you pick with, tap the 7th fret repeatedly. Keep moving your left hand from 3 to 5. This is a basic fretboard tapping riff.

I don’t have a tab for you on fretboard tapping

But a very popular song that involves this is "Eruption" by Van Halen

Bends

Bends are very, very popular, they are used in almost every rock song, and in almost every solo. A bend is when you pluck one notes, and then bend the string using the same finger your using to hold down a fret. This makes a very surf sound to any riff.

e-----------------
B-----------------
G------5b7-5-0-
D-5^7-----------
A-----------------
E-----------------

The bend is represented by a "B"

This is just a simple blues riff I wrote :D

Palm Muting

And finally, palm muting. This is when you gently rest your palm on the bridge (the piece of metal that holds the strings, right at the bottom of the guitar)
You can still pick the strings while resting you palm, making a soft bassy note.

There isn’t really a tab for palm muting.

A good song that involves this is "Pipeline" The Ventures.

That concludes my egg of Basic Guitar Playing - Part 2. Please vote and thanks for looking!

Part 3 Coming Soon - Chords 		 
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Dec 10, 2006 5:40 pm -
nicely done your other one helped me alot with my guitar playing and so has this one another 5 for u my friend *****:)*****


okoshima
D c 10, 2006 5:41 pm -
meh ignore last message and 5* again, its going to be a huge help.


BurcS
Dec 10, 2006 5:53 pm -
thanks, this ones better, 5*


CHuNDeRBoX
Dec 10, 2006 5:57 pm - NIC
nice work, i dont play guitar, but my sis does, this will help her alot, thnx


Mezmer
Dec 10, 2006 6:16 pm -
Gah. Nice effing guitar man?! Just for that you get 5*’s Niice


FearTheClown
Dec 10, 2006 7:06 pm -
I love throwing snowballs at defenceless cars. (5)


LedNRoses
Dec 10, 2006 7:11 pm -
Lmao, me 2, my man, me 2


Shinigami-1764
Dec 10, 2006 7:40 pm -
1 because Jimmy Page doesn’t play an Epiphone. N00b.


LedNRoses
Dec 10, 2006 7:45 pm -
His double neck is retard


Magnum
Dec 10, 2006 8:07 pm -
This isn’t really advanced playing....the only ’advanced’ technique you covered was tapping, which isn’t all that hard either.


ShoeDaBoot
Dec 10, 2006 9:23 pm -
i play i know this stuff so i can tell you did a good job explaining 5*


Nothing_Is_Safe
Dec 10, 2006 11:23 pm -
5*


lady
Dec 11, 2006 12:27 am -
excellent work *5


_Whitey_
Dec 11, 2006 1:13 am -
As a fellow guitarist.. This is well written and easy to understand for beginners and such.. *5


floydfan
Dec 11, 2006 1:57 pm -
It’s kind of ironic that the title is "basic guitar playing" but yet you go over "Wish You Were Here" and "Over The Hills and Far Away." It made me laugh but still a 5*


BigZipper
Dec 12, 2006 11:20 am -
0* stop teaching kids hte wrong shit. your last egg was wrong too. how do i know? because all guitar players are taught guitar THE WRONG WAY. i learned guitar the wrong way too until i met my current teacher who studied under satriani and it took me a year to re-learn the guitar. don;t waist a year of your life man. fire your current teacher


LedNRoses
Dec 12, 2006 6:32 pm -
Who says I have a teacher?
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