Electric guitar...

YY1 said

OK, I'll start.....

My first riff was "Paranoid" (what, not "Smoke On The Water"??).

My uncle spent about an hour and a half showing me the Black Sabbath chord and how to hold that shape and hammer on for the riff, as well as move the chord both on the same strings but different frets and in the same position, but one string down, then told me to go home and practice.

It was an interesting approach as it covered several bases at once, but not overly complex.

What really hooked me was the octave of the open E string that you can play (but is not necessary for practice) that really gives a full and ominous sound.

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So I've been kind of going two fold the last few days. I've been working on the book just trying to work out the first string e and b on the 1st and 3rd fret and mixing those up as can be played along in the beginning but with a app on my phone and that's what the guy from the lessons is working on with me but again the time goes by there and it's fast and relatively lame and I get all flustered because I have to do it in front of somebody on command on a Time clock which kind of takes out the fun Factor...
On my own for the last 2 weeks I've been working on the first six chords of enter sandman and got that down okay not great but okay right now... And I've been working on some of the harder hitting opening refs.. the two strums on the combination of the open E and the second fret A... Then the slide from the A5 to 7 and the 6-5 on the E while giving that last five fret on the E A little motion...
Then of course the third fret E 5th fret A and then an open e and the same thing one fret up and then another hit sliding back down and back up and one last one with the open E and second fret a...
And the other night started the opening of beat it..