GUITAR TECHNIQUES.
ON TAB.

Bends

A bend is a guitar technique where you push or pull a string sideways across the fret to raise the pitch without moving your finger to a new fret.

Hammer-ons and Pull-offs

Hammer-ons and pull-offs (collectively called 'legato' or 'slurs') let you sound consecutive notes on one string without picking each one, using just the fretting hand.

Palm Muting

Palm muting is a technique where the edge of the picking hand rests lightly on the strings near the bridge, producing the chunky, percussive sound that defines rock and metal rhythm guitar.

Slides

A slide is a guitar technique where you move a fretted finger along the string to a new fret without lifting it, producing a smooth continuous pitch transition.

Vibrato

Vibrato is a small, periodic variation in pitch applied to a sustained note. On guitar it's produced by rapidly bending and releasing the string in small increments.

Tremolo Picking

Tremolo picking is the technique of rapidly alternating downstrokes and upstrokes on a single note or chord to produce a sustained, rapidly-repeating sound.

Sweep Picking

Sweep picking is a guitar technique where you use a single fluid pick motion across multiple strings, sounding each note in sequence with the fretting hand changing between notes.

Tapping

Tapping is a guitar technique where the picking-hand fingers strike notes directly onto the fretboard, allowing wide interval jumps and fast passages that would be impossible with conventional fretting.

Fingerpicking

Fingerpicking uses the picking-hand thumb and fingers to pluck individual strings instead of a pick, allowing simultaneous bass-line and melody-line playing on a single guitar.

Power Chords

A power chord is a two- or three-note chord made of just the root and the perfect fifth (and sometimes the octave). It is the foundational chord shape of rock and metal rhythm guitar.

Pinch Harmonics

A pinch harmonic (sometimes called a squeal) is a guitar technique where the pick and the picking-hand thumb both contact the string at the moment of attack, suppressing the fundamental and emphasizing a high overtone.

Alternate Picking

Alternate picking is a picking-hand technique where downstrokes and upstrokes strictly alternate, allowing fast and even single-note runs across one or more strings.