By Tom Grogan
You'll be surprised to discover that when learning to play guitar that there are some electric guitar tricks that can help you progress quickly. If you are looking for ways to decrease the learning curve and join the band as soon as possible you have come to the right place. Learning to play the guitar can be easy or it can be very frustrating. Our goal is to make learning fun and easy.
The first guitar trick is to make sure the guitar is set up properly. If the guitar is not set up correctly or has a high playing action it will take too much effort to fret the notes with the left hand. This will also cause the finger tips to get very sore and it will be unpleasant to practice for any length of time. The strings must be close enough to the fingerboard to be easy to fret (push down) without vibrating against the adjacent frets.
Next you will want to set aside a specific and regular amount of time for practice. Irregular and sporadic practice only prolongs your progress. Althrough there are things you can do to make learning quick and easy there is no substitute for regular practice. As you learn more techniques you may want to increase your practice time.
As you master the basic techniques of just playing the notes and chords there are some other electric guitar tricks you can use to refine your sound. One trick would be using the tremolo arm (wammy bar) correctly. The tremolo arm lowers the tension on the strings to lower the pitch and then returns the strings to their original pitch. When you have long sustained notes you can bend the note by pushing the string upward on the fingerboard. this will have the effect of raising the pitch just slightly and then returning to is original pitch.
Some of the more popular and easier electric guitar tricks involve using some of the many pedals to hook up between the guitar and amp. These could be reverb pedals, octave pedals, chorus pedals, or delay pedals. There are many types of distortion pedals to get sounds from classic rock to heavy metal and everything in between.
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