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Solo Guitar - Lead Guitar Techniques
Learning lead guitar techniques, such as the hammer-on and pull off, is an essential element for any guitar student wanting to learn to play great solos and riffs. Learn these techniques well, and use them on either the acoustic or electric guitar.
Mastering hammer ons is a vital element of playing lead guitar and solos. A hammer on is basically what it sounds like. You use a fretting finger to hammer onto a string at a given fret, and if you do it hard and fast enough, you will sound that given note.
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Just like a hammer on, a pull off is way of sounding a note without having to pick at it, which can speed up your riff. Pull offs are carried out on strings that are already vibrating (giving off sound). As it’s the opposite of the hammer on, the pull off will sound a note lower on the given string, either a fretted note, or the open string itself. Read
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Vibrato is a musical effect, produced in singing and on musical instruments (like the guitar :-) ) by a regular pulsating change of pitch. It’s basically a sound effect which makes a note oscillate up and down.
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Palm muting involves the dampening of the strings on your guitar with the edge of your picking hand. Palm muting is a technique used by rock and heavy metal guitarists, since doing palm muted plucks with high gain (distortion) brings out a thick, rhythmic punch sound, to the extent of making it sound percussive. Read
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Using slides effectively adds texture to lead guitar solos. This, just like with other lead guitar techniques, such works best when combined with other techniques, such as vibrato, bends, etc.
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String bending is an essential part of playing lead guitar, and is a must know if you want to play great solos. It gives added texture and color, and gives more freedom ont he fretboard.
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