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How To Do The Guitar Hero Trick

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How To Do The Guitar Hero Trick

Have you always wanted to play the Electric Guitar but have no idea where to begin? Don't worry as we here at VideoJug are going to show you an easy Rock riff that anyone can play with just five minutes practice! Learn this Guitar Hero Trick and turn in to a rock god in a matter of minutes. Have you always wanted to play the Electric Guitar but have no idea where to begin? Don't worry as we here at VideoJug are going to show you an easy Rock riff that anyone can play with just five minutes practice! Learn this Guitar Hero Trick and turn in to a rock god in a matter of minutes.

Strike the String open (holding no strings)

Strike the 2nd String whilst placing your 3rd finger on it at the 3rd Fret

Strike the 1st String open

Strike the 2nd String whilst placing your 3rd finger on it at the 3rd Fret and bend the string upwards

Strike the 2nd String with your 3rd finger on it at the 3rd Fret

Strike the 2nd String open

Strike the 3rd String with your second finger on it at the 2nd Fret

Strike the 2nd String open

Strike the 4th String with your 2nd finger on it at the 2nd Fret

To finish the riff, play an E minor chord by placing your 2nd finger on the 5th string at the 2nd Fret, and your 3rd finger on the 4th string at the 2nd Fret. Then simply strum down on all six strings.

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  1. fontalamh

    The written instructions don't match the video, first step should be strike the first string open, the last should be strum up not down.

  2. eazyd

    I learned this lick as he was playing it. -- But I'm not new to guitar. To learn more about what to do with this lick, or why it 'works' as music, check out a simple blues scale and you'll see those notes are part of it and can be played anywhere on the fretboard. You gotta bend that note up a whole step!

  3. guitarsquiddy

    Besides, why does this site automatically keep me from swearing? Seems kinda wrong to me. If I say something, I mean it... And I stand by it.

  4. guitarsquiddy

    This vid is, politely expressed, bulls**t. It takes a lot of practice to develope a "tone" in one's fingers to make a guitar sound good. And one gets out of practice pretty fast. Anyone who really trusts his ears can tell a real guitarist from a fake one by a few notes. Miles Davis even claimed he just had to look at a guitarist's fingers to tell whether he got tone in his fingers.(Though I personally think he might have been bragging a bit)

  5. laughuntilyoupuke

    So this is for if you want to look "cool" or whatever for a few seconds but you don't really know how to play? There's a lot of things you can do to get the effect. For one put the amp on overdrive or up the distortion (but not too loud), this will mask your lack of skill and impress the easily impressed. =) Now you should learn a couple of scales, or even just one. Then just mess around with it move up and down the neck of the guitar, use your intuition and throw in a few bends if you want for some flare. If there's a whammy bar end with that and hold it out...instant coolness!

  6. Anonymous

    That's a really unhelpful video.

  7. Anonymous

    Nice quality video seems to be more important than content. On screen text gets in way off shot.

  8. Anonymous

    2nd finger on the 4th string 4th finger 1st string second finger fifth string...what?

  9. Anonymous

    This is the start to the battle vs slash on gh3, is that wot the guitar hero trick bit is about?

  10. jimispier

    Nice little E minor pentatonic riff.. Its also important to know that the riff illustrated there can be moved around the fret board.