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Rhythm Guitar Tips and Tricks: Basic Guitar Lessons for Playing Rhythm Guitar

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Rhythm Guitar Tips and Tricks teaches you the various styles of rhythm guitar technique. Each of these specific rhythm guitar lessons focuses on a single aspect of playing rhythm, such as:

• Power Chords
• Metal Guitar Riffs
• Palm Muting Secrets

...It's everything you need to master rhythm guitar like the pros!

Rhythm Guitar Lessons:

#	Lesson Name	Category	Description
1	Top 7 Greatest Riffs of all Time	Guitar Riffs	This lesson will teach you the greatest riffs of all time with a fresh approach that you probably won't see anywhere else!
2	Best Metal Albums for Guitar	Metal Guitar	This lesson covers the 3 best metal records of all time you MUST know if you are into metal. These classic metal guitar tabs will help you learn the basics of how to play "metal guitar".
3	How To Play Power Chords	Power Chords	Are you fluent in power chords? By learning how to play power chords well, you gain access to thousands of riffs and strength to play guitar longer and faster.
4	Fast Palm Muting Secrets	Palm Muting	If you want to master metal guitar riffs, you have to learn fast palm muting techniques. Learning the secrets of effective palm muting is the key to playing the most powerful guitar riffs!
5	Guitar Tab Books	Tab Books	Get real tab books and don't worry about looking through mounds of incorrect tablature online.

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Rhythm Guitar Tips and Tricks Defined

Nathan McDonald, your teacher and
Lead guitarist of Halo Stereo

How does one go about playing rhythm guitar? In the olden days, you could say that the up high stuff is lead, and the down low stuff is rhythm. But times they have a changed. First of all, no one smokes that much pot anymore. Second, many new school riffs utilize the higher frets even during the main guitar riff and not JUST during guitar solos!

You could take it one step further and say that their ARE NO guitar solos anymore, that Kurt Cobain was right and lead guitar died in the eighties with acid wash jeans and big hair! On the other hand, there are those who are still inspired by guitar solos and flashy techniques.

Whether you think guitar solos exist in real life or only in our imaginations, these rhythm guitar lessons will hopefully give your guitar playing style the foundation it needs to rule the fretboard from all angles. Your only valid excuse to come across amateur is proportionate to your ability to maintain a whiskey hangover. Beer hangovers don't count!

Most basic guitar lessons go over some rhythm technique, such as chord voicings and strumming. But for a TRUE guitarist, playing rhythm guitar is about more than just strumming some open chords! These rhythm guitar tips and tricks will explore those other aspects for your to learn rhythm guitar from every possible angle!

7 Greatest Riffs of All Time

This lesson on The 7 Greatest Guitar Riffs of all Time shows you how to play 7 of the best rock guitar riffs ever! They are not your average riffs you would see churned over and over in Guitar World month after month!

3 Best Metal Albums for Guitar

The 3 Best Metal Albums for Guitar are 3 metal-RIFF-ic albums by metal gods from the days of yore who wielded the hammer that hath strucketh upon the hearts of yon horde of aspiring guitarists who desire rhythm guitar tips and tricks that are not simple 3 chord sing-a-longs!

How To Play Power Chords -- Introducing Vital Basics To Playing Rhythm Guitar!

Are you fluent in power chords? By learning how to play power chords well, you gain access to thousands of riffs and strength to play guitar longer and faster. Playing rhythm guitar is not complete without them! Plus, learn them all now using this free guitar power chord chart!

Fast Palm Muting Secrets -- Your Effective Walkthrough For Mastering Metal Guitar Riffs!

If you want to master metal guitar riffs, you have to learn fast palm muting techniques. Learning the secrets of effective palm muting is the key to playing the most powerful guitar riffs! Get one step closer to unleashing the heaviest riffs of all time!

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