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Posts Tagged ‘Rhythm Guitar’

How to play power chords

What is a power chord?
Power chords are a basic element of modern electric guitar playing.  They are found throughout all genres of contemporary music, and feature heavily in rock, alternative, punk and metal guitar, because they will still sound clear, bold and full through an overdriven or distorted amplifier.
A power chord has only 2 notes [...]

10 easy rock guitar songs for beginners

When you’ve just started learning to play guitar, it can be easy to get to a point where you ask yourself “what song should I learn next?”
Here are 10 rock songs that sound great and aren’t that difficult to play.  If you’re a rock player and you’re looking for something new to sink your teeth [...]

Should you learn to play Lead Guitar or Rhythm Guitar?

In my post on Guitar Instruction, a commenter asked about whether some materials would be better or worse depending on whether you wanted to play lead guitar or rhythm guitar.  And it made me think, I get asked something along these lines fairly often.  Usually new guitarists want to know which is more important to [...]