Lead Guitar Lesson 1. – beginner guitar lesson #8

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Length: 10:45

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• Hammer-ons
• Minor pentatonic scale
• Pull-offs

Welcome to the 8th beginner guitar lesson, out of our series of 10 guitar lessons for beginners. In this video, you will be introduced to the most fundamental lead guitar techniques, which are a must-know if you want to become good at playing the guitar. The techniques you will learn today are:

• hammer-ons
• pull-offs
• movable scales through the introduction of the Pentatonic scale
• increased finger coordination

Once you watch this video and practice the techniques mentioned above, you will propel your guitar playing to whole new dimensions, trust me. These are the basic techniques you will use when you start playing solos and riffs, so learn and practice everything.

Practice the techniques you just learned, then:

• learn some more lead guitar techniques with our next guitar lesson on more lead guitar techniques,
• check out all of our free guitar lessons for beginners,
• have a look at some more guitar song lessons, for example
  • Godfather Theme by Slash
  • Crazy Train by Ozzy Osbourne
  • Sunshine of Your Love by Eric Clapton

If you want to refine the skills you learned in Lead Guitar Lesson 1. – beginner, check out these lessons on songs by clicking these links:
Hammer-ons / Minor pentatonic scale / Pull-offs

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