The guitar takes suggestions from both hands to make a full sound. Your repertoire and flexibility will be increased as you learn new techniques.These are the terms and skills you should know and work on right away.

 

Right Hand Only Skills

 

Flat picking is playing the guitar with a plectrum or pick, usually plastic. Flat picking is the holy grail of acoustic guitar playing.

 

Finger picking is usually described as playing the guitar with only your fingers, not with a pick. When you use all of your fingers, you can play difficult parts at the same time.

 

Alternating bass is another style of fingerpicking. You play the melody with your index, middle and ring finger while you play the bass with your thumb.

 

Classical guitar playing is the pinnacle of guitar playing achievement and requires control over all of your fingers. Even if you think you will not ever play classical music you should study a little for the techniques you will learn.

 

Dampening is the technique that uses the heel of the right hand to muffle or mute the sound of the guitar.

 

Left Hand Guitar Playing Techniques

 

A barre chord is one in which you use your index finger of your left hand to hold down the strings all at once. Mastery of the barre chord is required of all guitar players.

 

The arpeggio is a useful tool to help to build a lead as well as understand the theory of music. The arpeggio is probably the most basic of music theory skills and a great way to build your
leads.

 

Dampening is a technique that can be used by either hand and involves muting the strings just slightly to produce a muffled, percussive sound.

 

Using your left hand to sound the string without plucking with the right hand is called the hammer-on.

 

A pull-off is the opposite of a hammer-on. The combination of hammer-ons and pull-offs is a great way to build a lead solo as well.

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