Rock Guitar Lesson 3

here you'll learn and master:

guitar vibrato technique

All we know what vibrato is. Some guys

associate this word with non-musical stuffs.

Though the principle is the same.

Vibrato is a simple basic guitar

technique that gives "singing" qualities

to note.

Couple of licks with vibrating notes

Performing vibrato:

Take any note you wish to vibrate.

Move your hand up and/or down

around the fret after move back and

again up or down etc...

First times do it slowly. Practice playing

vibrato on different frets and strings.

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You can try to move deeply, slightly, faster, slower...there are no rules here

you may move your hand in circle instead of moving it only up and down.

Dig for your own vibrato style.

You can also involve previous finger to help vibrating string see the pic above

rock guitar vibrato example

In tabs vibrato marks as

symbol.

In simple tablatures made in notepad the vibrato denotation looks like a series

of upside down v letters:

1 |-------------------------
2 |-------------------------
3 |-------------------------
4 |------3^^^^^^^^----------
5 |-------------------------
6 |-------------------------

Play following exercise vibrating each note of a blues scale.

As you see blues scale looks very similar to pentatonic scale

from the end of simple right hand picking lesson

but it has an additional note.

(at 5^th fret of 5^th string and at 7^th fret of 3^rd string)

guitar exercise

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Next goes practice material, a few special licks with vibrato notes for fixing the new material.

After learning to play them correctly we'll build a guitar solo using these licks as bricks,

feel free to make any changes to them to match to your own needs later.

Vibrato licks:

Lick 1	Vibrato Lick 1 video example

Lick 2	Vibrato Lick 2 video example

Lick3	Vibrato Lick 3 video example

Lick 4	Vibrato Lick 4 video example

Lick 5	Vibrato Lick 5 video example

When the licks are mastered it's time to combine some of them

In this lesson we'll play ballad style guitar melodic solo.

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tab

rock guitar solo tab

Download minus one guitar track Click here to download

Note:

Last both notes on 4^th and 5^th strings we play together in the same time.

The note on the 5^th string 3^rd fret to be play with 1^st finger.

The note on the 4^th string 5^th fret play with 4^th finger.

Right hand plays downstroke and picks both 5^th and 4^th strings in one motion.

When you'll play the solo fine with no mistakes go forward,

try to improvise with the minus guitar track around the same

notes we used in the solo by alternating them and building new sequences in the solo

look for interesting phrases and ideas.

Below on the video I recorded a part of my improvisation around the track to get things cleaner.

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