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[G592]Guitar Lessons For Metallica

by Kevin Sinclair, Kev

With your new guitar and how to play instructions at hand you are visualizing yourself entertaining crowds of screaming fans at huge venues, supported by lesser known artists. You are full of enthusiasm to live your dream, until you open the pages of your lesson book, sit down with your guitar in position and suddenly it all looks so difficult. Well, maybe not so famous so fast, maybe just playing to friends and family at first!

Discipline is the key to learning and you will need to work through the lesson book step by step, making sure you actually understand what you are doing before moving on. Practise makes perfect, even if it takes many attempts to get it right. It appears to be all so easy to miss out the bits that look too complicated and get straight to the tune playing, but it will be much more difficult learning to play this way in the long term.

Have you thought about taking lessons with a teacher? After all, your teacher motivates you and would make sure you have thoroughly learned each session before moving on to the next part. You will also have the opportunity between lessons to practice what you have learned and having to show your newfound knowledge to your teacher at the next lesson will give you the all the encouragement you need to make sure you are progressing as you should be. Let's face it; we all know it's easy to put off practise when you have no discipline and incentive.

Another advantage of having a real life teacher over studying a book or taking lessons on line is that the teacher will actually show you how to do the task at hand. You will be able to see exactly what the teacher does to produce the sound you are hearing. Instead of struggling on alone, your teacher will help you when you just can't get it right and you will have no long standing bad habits to get rid of this way too.

Of course, taking lessons is not free, but this is usually a positive point as we all seem to appreciate things much more when we have had to pay for them out of our hard earned cash. You are much less likely to spend time playing around, performing your own version of jamming, which will not really sound that good if you don't know what you are doing. So, maybe you should consider taking lessons to get you started on the right road to becoming the famous guitarist you aspire to be.

Playing a guitar without vibrato is like eating Mexican food without salsa. Vibrato is one of the most definitive techniques in defining your musical style, your own personal unique sound. No two players have the same vibrato sound. Some play slow and wide while others play narrow and fast, and that's the beauty behind spending a lot of time learning different vibrato techniques. It's like eating different salsa's every time you go to your favorite taco stand. Enough talk about food, lets talk technique.

Vibrato is sometimes confused with tremolo. Basically it is just a technique of vibrating the string sharp and flat around a root note. For example if you are playing the 7th fret on the 3rd string with your 3rd finger on your fret hand you can just push the note up slightly and them pull it down slightly. Do this in quick succession so the over riding effect is a ?wobbly? tone around the root note you are playing. Use your hand, wrist, and arm to make the movements. Never just wiggle a finger. Some people use a technique of pulling the string down towards the floor and then releasing back up.

Try this in a variety of speeds and levels of bending during your vibrato. The trick is to be consistent and smooth with your motion. If you are playing a slow blues riff then you may want to slow down and make a wide circular motion with the string, or if you are playing a fast rock lick you may just ad a fast narrow vibrato to accent the final note in a run.

It is possible to add vibrato using any finger you play with, but it is most commonly done with the first and third finger on the fret hand. Using your first finger is a bit trickier. I usually use my first finger for fast vibratos similar to BB Kings style. I will literally lift my other finger far off the fret board, press down and just ?vibrate? the string as fast and as open as possible. That's funny the work vibrato is a lot like vibrate, because that's actually what you are doing vibrating the string.

When you combine vibrato with string bending, harmonics and legato techniques you begin to discover the musician inside of you. Playing guitar is about discovering your inner flow of creativity and having the techniques to be able to express them. Vibrato is one of the more personal and effective techniques. As with all aspect of playing guitar you need to experiment with these techniques, and most of all have fun!

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