5 Techniques to Level Up Your Guitar Game
All of us started out as guitar noobs.
We all had to endure the callous-inducing pain of learning how to play. At the time, it seemed like even getting our fingers to cooperate was too hard a task to master.
Yet we finally got the hang of it, and before long we could play some basic chords.
For many of us, however, our progress stalled once we mastered G, C, D, and Em. Some of us continued on to power chords or maybe learned the basic minor pentatonic scale or a blues lick or two.
Sure, it was enough to (badly) play a song around a campfire. But this plateau is very much still in Beginner Town.
So if you find yourself here — firmly established as a beginner — but want to advance to the intermediate level, this article is for you.
Today I’m going to show you five easy techniques you can implement in your playing to help you finally get off of that plateau and transition from beginner to intermediate guitarist.
Sustained chords
This trick works even with basic open chords, so it’s a good place to start.
The idea is there are times when a slight change to a chord can really make a song pop, and this is often the result of adding in a sustained, or sus, chord at…
