How To Play The Electric Guitar

How to play the electric guitar. The redeeming feature of the electric guitar is that it can be played louder than the acoustic, of course, without feedback. Also, it allows you to generate different types of sound.

So here's a clean sound, and here's the dirty sound, which gets used a lot. The other thing is the greater degree of amplification, allows you to use Lagarto techniques without worrying about the sound disappearing. Here's one now, a hammer-on, and here's a pull-off, and here's a hammer-on, fuller boy, pull-off.

Here are a number of them together. Big notes sound really good. And also, you can use that vibrato sound, unison bends, bends where you bend up a note and hold one in the same place.

These are giving you plenty of opportunities with an electric guitar which you don't really get certainly with a steel-strung acoustic and a little less with a nylon strung classical. Here's the sound of palm-muting - it's where you have the palm of the hand on the strings, possibly the best advice is to go and see somebody in person who knows these things already. There are grading systems that you can follow like rockschool dot co dot uk.

That's authenticated by the Trinity College of London. Registry Guitar Tutors - they've got a list of qualified teachers on there. They know all the techniques, and each grade, of which there are eight in each system, gets a little bit harder.

It's keeping things within your capability but stretching, as well, in a sensible and organized way. And that's how to play electric guitar. .