Lead Guitar Practice Summary #7

Lead Guitar Practice Summary #7 video (Part 1):

Lead Guitar Practice Summary #7 video (Part 2):

In my lead guitar practice this week, I focused on learning two different lines from songs; this helped me to incorporate some of the things I have learned into real-life playing situations.

First of all, I learned the lead guitar tab to “Attention” by Charlie Puth. This helped me to practice up-and-down picking, specific note selection, and a new technique called muting. Because the note lengths for this guitar part are very short, I had to pluck the string and then quickly mute it before hitting the next note. To apply this muting technique after playing a note, I would take a free finger and place it lightly on the string above the played note.

My second task this week was to add a lead guitar line to a cover I am recording of “I’m Yours” by Jason Mraz. In this task, I was able to practice note selection, hammer-ons, and a new technique called sliding. Sliding consists of playing one note on the guitar, and quickly sliding your finger from that note to a new desired note without plucking the string again.

Above are two videos showing my progress on these two different tasks.

A resource I used this week was:

Attention Intro Tab