Hello everyone. So lately I've been thinking of learning to play the guitar but I don't have a clue about guitar. Any good books that you know of that will help me learn play guitar. After speaking to others on the web, I found the answer. There are some great books you can get. You can get a Free one from and also check out I would also check out Youtube if you like video lessons.

What’s the most insane guitar solo you have ever heard? One by Paul Gilbert? Yngwie? Eddie Van Halen?

If you’re going to play an insane solo like the guitar heroes, here is what you need to start getting good at. These guys didn’t learn this stuff over night! Let’s get that straight up front. Shredding, especially shredding not just up and down scales, takes years to master. Not just that, but these guitar gurus are always pushing their own playing to the limit in their recordings. You can imagine the difficult road you have ahead of you.

32nd Note Legato Runs

At some point during the insane solo, most of our favorite guitarists will play abnormally fast, 32nd note legato runs. This will be the fastest, most impressive point to the “lay person. ” We guitarists know shredding is much harder, although slower.

It is important to develop legato techniques (all hammer-ons and pull-offs) along your 3-note-per-string scales and Pentatonic Scales. You’ll want to skip strings, do amazing finger stretches, and of course, full neck legato runs. Listen to Joe Satriani in particular and you’ll hear all kinds of crazy legato sequences.

Finger Tapping

For the most insane solo, add finger tapping, as pioneered by Eddie Van Halen, though brought to a whole new level now. There’s 2, 4, 6, and even 8-finger finger tapping. For the most dramatic effect, learn 8-finger finger tapping and not just on the upper register, more like the middle register and upper register combined. Be sure to tap arpeggios as well as be inventive in your note choice. The greatest taps are created with “worldly sound” in mind in my opinion.

Shredding

Get your metronome and start increasing your speed until you can play 16th notes at roughly 200 beats per second. The insane guitarists don’t only shred up and down scales at this speed, but also sweep arpeggios and Pentatonics at this speed. Get a book that teaches you all of the arpeggios, not just diad.

Tetrachords

Throw in tetrachord runs. Tetrachords require intense finger stretching. These are essentially 4-note-per-string diatonic scales. Type “tetrachords” into a Google search and there you’ll find what you’re looking for. Charles Gacsi at WholeNote has a great lesson on the theory behind tetrachords.

Guitar Face

As if it weren’t enough just to play an insane solo technically. . . You need to develop a guitar face worthy of the masters. No easy facial expression will do. You must practice this in the mirror, coming up and an original guitar face.

Tension and Release

Don’t be afraid to go outside your comfort zone and experhyment. Even by hitting “the wrong notes” you’re doing something right. You’re creating tension. Use Chromatics to create tension or rip some notes off a bizarre scale for tension. Because it will be released to create a great feeling of contrast in your listener once you begin playing in key again. For the best release, only a easy melody will do. A easy melody repeated on and off within your insane solo will make it a memorable one.

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For the past year I have had shakey hands and I keep dropping things with make playing guitar. Id end up playing the same note a few times due to my shakey hands do you have any tips. Btw how can I play faster with shakey hands. Today I found out that… I had shakey hands for a long time when playing guitar :/ usually doing like finger stretches and exercising my hand muscles have made my hands a little stronger. and I was also told that my anemia or tiredness had to do with all the weakness in the hands that made it shakey. so I took a lot of iron too. . I guess just practice will get you there. and kinda pace yourself. . And remember to take breaks with your hands and if they're sore I suggest soaking them in salt water XD

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I have long nails. And I was wondering can you play guitar with long nails. . Dolly Parton (who is my fav singer). . Plays the guitar with her long nails?. . How does she do it?? Can it be done. Do you know what I found? Dolly and other artists having long fingernails on their left hand play by tuning the guitar into a chord, usually, G major. They then barre the frets which produce the major chords needed for their songs. Obtaining dominant 7ths, diminished 7ths, major 6ths, and minor chords would be difficult. I keep the nails of my left hand moderately short, but do use them occasionally to pluck additional notes as I use my right hand, getting a different sound from the strings at the nut.

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