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By: Tomas Labas
Although the electric guitar has originated in blues music, it
is rock that gave its popularity. With rock music, the electric
guitar became a massively expressive instrument. All guitar
lessons have to touch on rock as well, but if you want to learn
to play rock guitar, there are special modules you can take up.
These modules focus almost exclusively on rock music. The things you will be taught when you learn to play rock guitar
can be roughly spread into three modules: first lessons, where
you will learn the basics about playing the guitar, electric
guitar improver and power chords. First Lessons These lessons are mostly for beginners. If you have some
knowledge about playing the guitar, you may skip some of these.
This is up to your teacher to decide. However, if you're holding a guitar for the first time, this is
where your teacher will usually start. You will be taught the
fundamentals about playing a guitar in general and playing rock
guitar in particular. You will learn the basics about rock lead
guitar and power chords. After these first lessons, you will
have some idea on how to play classic rock guitar. If you get
these right, you are on your way to actually playing rock guitar. Electric Guitar Improver In the next lessons, you will probably be taught various rock
techniques, such as sliding, string-bending, pull-offs, vibrato
and hammer-ons. These tips will enable you to play some fairly
good rock solos. You will also learn about scales and chords
that will help you start making up your own music. There might
be a lot of blues references within these lessons. Going through
all these will help you understand the relation between blues
and rocks, which is essential if you want to learn to play rock
guitar like a pro. Power Chords Power chords are two or three string distorted sounding chords
used in some of the most popular rock songs of all times. You
will learn to play several rock songs during the first few
lessons of this module. Afterwards you will be very familiar
with the fretboard and surprise yourself with the sounds you
will be able to play. If you seriously want to learn to play rock guitar, don't get
frustrated or discouraged if you're not playing the way you
would like to at the beginning. If you enjoy playing, the
progress will come at some point. Find a guitar teacher you
communicate well with, design a workable schedule to practice
and, most importantly, try to have fun while you're learning. About the author:
Article written by real guitar lover. Some of authors articles
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