Guitar Techniques To Make You Sound Like A Rock God!

do you want to sound like your favorite rock guitar legends or do you want to become a rock star in your own right well then this is the lesson for you we're going to look at a whole bunch of techniques that are used by all of your favorite rock gods and you'll be playing like one in no time you can go from sounding like this to something like this [Music] so what was the difference between those two you know the first one didn't sound so bad that's maybe how you'd play if you looked at a tab or watched a video lesson that showed you how to play all the right notes but it's not about what you play so much as how you play it there's some techniques that you can't really learn from a tab or just from playing the right notes there are certain techniques you need to learn if you want to be able to sound like all of your favorite rock gods eddie van halen slash jimmy page whomever it is and i'm gonna teach you everything you need to know okay so technique one we're gonna talk about pinch harmonics this is what they sound like [Music] in case you still don't know what i'm talking about a lot of people also refer to pinch harmonics as artificial harmonics or squealies colloquially speaking because something like that played with no pinch harmonics can sound like this when you add pinch harmonics and you can hear there's that kind of like squealing harmonic sound that's added to it so in order to create a pinch harmonic you need to find a way to hit the string with another part of your hand after you initially pick it so the first thing you can try is picking a note and then tapping on the string somewhere above a pickup and start hearing something that's kind of similar to a pinch harmonic and again once you can sort of get that down give it a try using your thumb [Music] depending on your guitar a few different locations i'd recommend starting on the lower strings for now i keep accidentally hitting the a string with my thumb that's not what i mean to do but done right [Music] you'll hear a little bit of that harmonic afterwards there we go finally that one worked the best and again this isn't the technique to actually create pinch harmonics this is just an example of where you can start to sort of hear what that sounds like but now what needs to happen is we need to bridge the gap between you know when we initially hit the strings with our pick and when our hand hits the strings and that is why pinch harmonics are usually best achieved when you take your thumb and you move it further down on the pick because what happens is then when you strike the string with your pick your thumb will hit the string immediately afterwards because you can see here it's sort of hanging over the edge a little bit so pinch harmonics usually sound the best when you have quite a bit of overdrive or distortion on when you're on the bridge pickup and they definitely ring out really nicely when you you know use some vibrato with them as well and if you don't know what vibrato is yet we will be covering that a little bit later in this lesson but depends on the soloist it depends on your choice some people like to just throw in pinch harmonics here and there to accent one note in particular or you could hear songs like lagrange by zz top where almost an entire solo at the end of the song is using pinch harmonics so let me give you a lick right now actually that you could practice from that exact song and see if you can play every note with a pinch harmonic if you can get to that point great if not just keep working on one string one note at a time but this is a really cool lick to use in your soloing we're an a minor pentatonic and it sounds like this so you know this is just descending minor pentatonic scale bend on the eighth fret fifth fret again every note has a pinch harmonic on it and the last thing i want to say is [Music] if you move your hand down and up the string as you're doing a pinch harmonic you'll get different frequencies and this is a really really cool thing to use to your advantage as a guitar player something to explore and have fun with so again just to show you the difference how much magic pinch harmonics can bring i'll play that zz top lick without pinch harmonics and then i'll play with and we can hear which one sounds cooler so this is without [Music] nice so the next technique i want to show you today is tapping with all of these techniques i think you can dive so deeply into them and there's so much more to learn but i'm just giving a brief overview just to give you an example of all the essentials you need to know to sound like a rock god guitar tapping is definitely one that you should check out and essentially what it is is instead of just doing hammer-ons and pull-offs with your fretting hand which is what guitar players normally do that sounds cool but for it to be considered tapping we also need to add our picking hand into the mix essentially what you need to do is start by having all of your fingers already set up on the fretboard before you even strike the string in this case we're going to take a look at the opening to crazy train randy rhodes iconic guitar solo what you can start with is putting your first finger on the 7th fret and then either your third finger or your pinky on the 10th fret depending on you know which one you're able to do pull offs with but now what you're gonna do is take your picking hand and you're gonna use it to pull off at the 14th fret so the first step is to tap so that you can hear the note that can be step one see if you can tap on a string with your fretting hand and have it ring out like that now the next step is to be able to pull off and have the note ring out like what you just heard here and even though when we think of pull-offs we might think of you know literally just pulling off directly awkward directly upwards we actually need to use a bit of a flicking motion in order to have the string resonate enough and have enough sustain um and so what you can do is think of going down and up at the same time it's kind of a weird thing but i'm definitely thinking of a flicking motion more than anything and then once you're able to do that you should have enough sustain that you can pull off with your fretting hand [Music] and sometimes with tapping you end up hammering back on like this but for the sake of this example and especially if you're just starting let's just start with pull-offs like this [Music] you're comfortable doing that you can try moving your fretting hand pardon me your picking hand this one around a little bit and try it now tapping at the 15th fret and something i did at the beginning of that example which is important to point out i accidentally hit the wrong string you don't want to do that of course right so this is an example of you know sort of maybe pulling you out of your comfort zone a little bit and forcing you to think about parts of your hand you wouldn't normally when you're playing you might even find yourself watching your picking hand more than your fretting hand but it's a great technique for rock guitar shredding it can be used to show off and be used as a part of a showman sort of thing you're doing but also it can be used compositionally and especially when you start tapping with other fingers you know some people are able to tap with you know more than just their index finger but with all fingers on their other hand um then it can become something a lot more harmonically rich and used for songwriting and all sorts of cool stuff which is what a lot of modern players are doing but that's tapping so up next we have palm muting and this is a technique that holds a very special place in my heart because i remember back when i was first starting to play i could never figure out why my guitar teacher is playing sounded so much better than mine when we were playing the same thing you know he told me to play a power chord but somehow when he played it sounded like this [Music] it just sounded so much cooler you know it's like this subtle but at the same time very powerful technique that just brings a level of finesse and rock and roll coolness to your playing and essentially palm muting is exactly what the name implies you want to use your your picking hand to mute the strings using your palm of course and once you take this hand and place it kind of close to the bridge you can start experimenting with you know how much pressure you want to apply if you don't apply enough if you don't apply enough pressure it could sound like this [Music] and you could think oh i want it to sound more muted let's try a little more pressure pushing downwards like this you could put too much pressure and you could hear that it's too muted and it's also going out of tune because i'm actually detuning the strings by putting too much pressure like this so it's about striking a balance try different amounts of pressure you could even try moving it a few different places you know it depends on the guitar sometimes but typically you want your hand your palm to sort of be right next to the bridge like this and it can be used to play single note lines it could be used to play chords [Music] or power chords and i think that's a very great place to start if you take a power chord and you just focus on covering the lower strings [Music] that sounds very rock and roll very cool and then as you feel more and more comfortable you can see what happens if you slide your palm down a little bit as you maybe ascend to higher strings but it's all about taking your palm and muting the strings that's why it's called paw muting and it can add so much to your playing as a rock god and i think that you should definitely check it out alright rock guitar technique 4 this is vibrato and if you've been watching any of my videos for a while you will know that i am the biggest vibrato fan in the world because it really can be what separates a good guitar player from a great guitar player it adds so much expression and finesse to your playing and if you don't know what vibrato is and you add that sort of like pulsating change in pitch like you just heard that's vibrato so two very important variables that help to characterize the sound of your vibrato are firstly the width of it is it shallow or wide you can hear that you know the variance in pitch can vary depending on you know how far you pull the string down and we'll talk more about how to do that in just a moment but another important variable is the speed because you can have a really fast vibrato or a really slow vibrato and [Music] once you start thinking about those variables it'll help you you know figure out what parts of your vibrato you do like which parts you don't like it can help you sound more like your favorite rock guitar gods because you can hear you know each player kind of has their own vibrato so again like most of the techniques we've talked about in this video you can really focus on each one for hours and hours there's so much to talk about there are many different types of vibratos but today i want to show you the one that i think you're going to get the most mileage out of and it's the one that's most commonly used by a lot of professional awesome guitar players the wrist vibrato and essentially my fingers aren't really moving they're sort of staying in this formation but then it's all coming from my wrist as opposed to my fingers contracting and actually pulling the strings down it's all coming from the wrist step one take your third finger here and place it on the note that you want to apply vibrato to in this case i'm on the seventh fret of the g string because why not and i think it's definitely easier to start with the g string and the b string those strings typically on most guitars are great to start with if you want to learn vibrato and then from there take your other available fingers put it on the fretboard and they'll be there to help support this finger and they don't need to be on any particular fret it won't change the pitch depending on where they are you just want them to be somewhere comfortably on the neck like this and the first thing you can do is play the note [Music] like that and then return it to its neutral state [Music] and now this is the part that's a little bit trickier we want to see if we can achieve that without our fingers contracting like i was saying before you want to be able to see your wrist moving in this sort of movement kind of like the you know surfer cowabunga thing you see how my wrist is moving like this kind of the same thing when you're doing vibrato [Music] and you also want to make sure you can get it to a point where it's consistent [Music] that sounds a little bit like a mosquito maybe not the best but again start by trying to get this sort of [Music] going back and forth you know pulling it down returning it to its neutral state doing that over and over again seeing if you can get a consistent rate and then over time you'll start to develop the control desired so that you can make the note sound exactly the way you want it to [Music] and then when you add that to your playing again the amount of finesse that's added you know the difference between something with no vibrato [Music] you can even apply it to bent notes [Music] that's kind of something to work towards that takes a little while to get there i worked on it for a while but the first step you just apply it to regular non-bent notes [Music] and that's a great place to start alright so today we looked at what i think are the most essential rock guitar god techniques we talked about pinch harmonics we talked about tapping we talked about palm muting [Music] nice and we talked about vibrato my favorite technique ever [Applause] and i would love to know in the comments down below if there are any techniques that you think all aspiring rock gods should check out or any techniques you'd like to see me cover in another video and i'm gonna play you out with a rock guitar jam i'll make sure to use all of those techniques so you can hear what they sound like in action and rock on have a great day and peace bye [Music] [Applause] [Music] uh [Music] [Music]

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Id: fHqLZFqZ55E

Length: 18min 29sec (1109 seconds)

Published: Fri Aug 13 2021