| Playing popular songs on your electric guitar is a great | | | | Guns N' Roses,is a great song if you want to practice |
| feeling, and very possible, even if you are a beginner | | | | your lead guitar skills even more. Slash uses a large |
| guitarist. Your guitar skills are in direct relation to the | | | | variety of techniques that sound great on the electric |
| amount of time you practice, and learning songs is a | | | | guitar. To get an authentic sound, remember to add a |
| very effective and motivating way of getting better | | | | bit of delay (echo) effect to your amplifier, as well as |
| and advancing as a guitar player. Here are a couple of | | | | some distortion. By practicing this song, you'll be refining |
| easy electric guitar songs for beginner to practice: | | | | your lead guitar and solo techniques, namely: |
| Wipeout - The Surfaris | | | | - hammer-on |
| A really fun and fast paced song from the '60s, this | | | | - pull-off |
| one is a must learn for all beginners. By practicing this | | | | - vibratos |
| song, you'll not only be making great music, but also | | | | - string bending |
| improving your single string plucking technique, which is | | | | - slides |
| a vital element of playing the guitar. To make it really | | | | Free Bird - Lynyrd Skynnyrd |
| authentic, get together with a friend who plays the | | | | Free Bird is another easy electric guitar song. The |
| drums, or just download the songs drums backing | | | | great thing about it is that it not only uses lead guitar |
| track. | | | | techniques, but chords, and arpeggios as well. As you |
| Sweet Home Alabama - Lynyrd Skynnyrd | | | | know, an arpeggios is a broken chord, where you play |
| A very popular song, covered by a barrage of artists | | | | the individual notes of the chord in a given pattern, |
| ever since its 1974 debut. And the best part is that it's | | | | instead of strumming all strings at once. Learning this |
| a pretty easy song to play on your electric guitar. By | | | | song on your electric guitar will be loads of fun, and |
| learning this song, you'll be practicing mainly lead guitar | | | | give you a chance to practice: |
| techniques, including: | | | | - chords |
| - hammer-on | | | | - chord arpeggios |
| - pull-off | | | | - single string plucking |
| - chords | | | | - vibratos |
| - string bending | | | | - slides |
| Holiday - Green Day | | | | Learning the electric guitar by learning popular songs is |
| Green Day songs are great for beginners, since they | | | | an effective way to advance your guitar skills. Why? |
| are pretty simple. As many songs by the band, Holiday | | | | Because practicing songs is fun and motivating, |
| uses lots of power chords, and has several great riffs | | | | contrasting to learning by practicing individual guitar |
| that sound really good under distortion. You'll be refining | | | | techniques in their purity. Through learning to play |
| the following techniques by learning to play Holiday: | | | | songs, you'll be practicing every guitar technique that |
| - power chords | | | | got the pros famous, so what are you waiting for? |
| - single string plucking | | | | Grab your guitar and find a song to practice. |
| - plectrum switch technique | | | | GUITAR TIP: Leave your guitar out in the open on a |
| Godfather Theme - Slash | | | | stand, instead of storing it in a closet or under the bed. |
| The theme song to the Godfather (originally titled | | | | This will make you want to pick it up and practice |
| Speak Softly Love), as covered by Slash from the | | | | more often. |