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Posted: 29 Jan 2014 01:00 PM PST

Practice

The only difference between your standard of guitar playing and who you consider to be the greatest guitar player of all time is that they have practiced more than you have,there is just one simple rule to remember about playing guitar....the more you practice the better you will become.

As someone who has been teaching guitar for over twenty five years i can tell you that the question i get asked more than any other is..how much practice should i do to get good?well of course everybody wants to "get good"the problem with people is that they want to be a great player with little or in some cases no practice at all,this of course is ridiculous and a way of thinking that you must not adopt.

Right from the moment you read this you must become someone who puts in as much practice as you can every day of your life forever,every spare minute you have should be spent practicing,if you are really serious about becoming a great player this is the only way to think,if we could practice for just twenty minutes a week and become a great player dont you think that everyone on earth would do it and then everyone in the world would be good.

First of all you must make sure that you pick up your guitar and practice every single day without fail,next you must play your guitar for as long as you can play for,in the early days this will be quite difficult to do as your hands will ache and your fingers will get very sore on the tips but dont worry,as time goes by you will find that you can play for longer and longer and feel no discomfort at all,in the early days you may find that ten or fifteen minutes is all that you can manage but eventually you will be able to build up to what i can do which is easily five or six hours on a daily basis.

Dont think that you will have to play for several hours a day before you will be a good player,i play guitar for a living so i have the time every day to play for that long,i realize that the reality for most people is that they have to go to school everyday or they have to go to work so of course if you are one of those people then you wont be able to play for hours a day so what you must do is practice for as long as you can even if that is just thirty minutes a day you will still make progress so do not feel disheartened if you cannot practice for long,a small amount of practice is better than none at all.

Over thirty years ago when i started playing i worked on construction sites all around the uk,as you can imagine after doing that all day every day i was shattered and just wanted to get back to my hotel and rest but these are the times that you must stay focused and remember your dream to "get good"i would pick up my guitar every night in my hotel room and practice for as long as i could,you too must adopt this attitude if you want to be a guitar player.

After you have been playing for a while you will begin to see that you find some things easier to play than others and it is very easy to fall into the trap of playing over and over the things you find easy to play,yes of course your guitar playing should always be fun by all means have some fun playing the things that you find easy but dont forget that you must always concentrate on working on the things that you find difficult or you will never improve.

Identify your weak areas and spend extra time on them rather than shy away from them,in the long run this is what will make you a good player.

When we play a guitar it is difficult enough to place just one finger in the right place but when playing chords we are trying to place several fingers in the right place all at the same time so of course the level of difficulty is multiplied,we want to be able to set up the chord shape as fast as we can so that we can keep the song going but where a lot of people go wrong is that they set up the chord shape and just start strumming,remember that when you are strumming you are just training your strumming hand so what you must do to get good at forming chord shapes fast is to put the chord shape on,strum it just once or twice to make sure that you have placed your fingers in the right places then take the chord off,now form the chord again and strum it just once or twice again and so on,put it on take it off put it on take it off.

This may well seem a strange way to practice guitar and i can see why you would think that but just trust me when i say that this is what you must do,i will be telling you many things that you should do over time that may not make much sense at this time but believe me as time goes on you will see yourself improving.

Can you remember the movie "the karate kid"?wax on wax off,wax on wax off,none of the strange instructions made any sense to the karate kid but he had trust and stuck with it and what happened to him in the end?yes he became a champion.if you follow my instructions you too will become a champion on guitar.

Incorporating Suspended Chords into Metal Rhythm ... - Guitar World

Posted: 15 Sep 2014 08:47 AM PDT

Posted 09/15/2014 at 4:27pm | by Metal Mike Chlasciak

These videos and audio files are bonus content related to the November 2014 issue of Guitar World. For the full range of interviews, features, tabs and more, pick up the new issue on newsstands now or at the Guitar World Online Store.

One of the coolest things about contemporary metal is that its harmonic palette is wide open. It's not uncommon for a great metal riff to jump back and forth from one type of harmonic environment to another, such as from the natural minor scale to the Phrygian mode to the Mixolydian mode to the blues scale.

Countless examples abound in the music of such great bands as Metallica, Megadeth, Pantera, At the Gates, In Flames and others.

This month, I'd like to demonstrate a few different examples of rhythm-guitar ideas that jump around harmonically and also feature the incorporation of suspended chords, namely sus2 and sus4 chords.

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