Rock Guitar

Here you find the tabs of the rhythm guitar of " I Shot The Sheriff " by Bob Marley or Eric Clapton.
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Here you find the tabs of a cool intermediate rock guitar riff in the tempo of 80 bpm + some ideas for soloing. Try to play this as precise as possible or also use those rhythm figures to play something else but still using the original rhythm figure.
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Here you find a really cool and fun blues rock guitar riff played with a drop D tuning. On the solo you can use the phrygian Nat. 3 scale. I wrote one version of it down + a quit managable high speed lick which you can play with that pattern.
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If you are a beginner on guitar and you love to play rock and you still can not play the basics chords :
then these tabs are for you. Here you can start with the most easy ways of playing rock guitar power chords and you can already start to play your first rock guitar riffs even if you still are struggling with guitar chords. There are 3 keys + available. The keys of Em and Am work well because you can work with easy open string power chords and any other key works with the power chord inversions which are very easy to grab. The focus here is on your learning process of the basic rhythm figures with full, half, quarter and 8th notes. In rock guitar the rhythm is very important so get to know those basic rhythm figures, also the pauses and start to practice them with the beginners power chords to be ready for the basic power chords with more complex rhythms :
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Here you find tabs of a basic rock guitar tune in the key of Am. You find ideas for the damping techniques in rock guitar and variations on the rock guitar power chords. You also find some basic exercises on the main lead techniques in rock guitar. There are 2 backing tracks added. One is only drum and bass and the other one is with an additional guitar that you can practice some lead guitar as well.
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Here you find a selection of creative slow rock guitar chords. The chord progression is quite simple : Em / Em / C / C / D / D / Em / Em
I transformed those very common chords to some modern sounding slow rock guitar chords : Esus2 / Esus / Csus2 / Csus2 / Dsus2 / Dsus2 / Esus2 / Esus2The backing track is only drums and bass so that you have the full space to become creative. 
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Here you find a nice selection of G dorian riffs, patterns and licks from easy till advanced. The backing track added is this vamp here : G-7 / G-7 / C7 / C7
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Here you find some exercises to work with modes in a simple rock guitar tune with the progression : C#m / C#m / A / A / B / B / C#m / C#m
I am using the basic patterns of the modes technical exercises. I strongly recomment that you work on all of them when you want to get deeper into modes in any genre :
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Here you find the tabs of the shapes of the C#minor, A & B major arpeggios. They are embedded in the shapes of the D, C, A and E typ chords. You can practice them with the backing track added here. The backing track is a loop of the chord progression C#m / C#m / A / A / B / B / C#m / C#m
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This is a really cool backing track on a mid tempo with only drum and bass. It is taking from Lenny Kravitz's song " always on the run " - but it works for many other cool rock guitar jams. The chords are :
E5 / E5 / E5 / E5 / E5 / E5 / G A / E5 / G A / E5 /
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Here you find 7 rock guitar licks in the key of Am which represent the basic rock guitar licks which I strongly recommend to learn. You can use them in any rock guitar setting. I have added 2 different backing tracks in the same key that you can practice them with a different vibe.
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Here you find several variations of a classic drop D rock guitar riff. You can practice them with the backing track added.
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Here you find a selection of advance rock guitar riffs in the key of Em. You can practice them with the backing track added.
If you are a beginner or intermediate guitar player please first learn the basic rock guitar riffs if you haven't done that already :
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Here you find a summary of basic rock guitar riffs in the key of Em. Em is the main key for a lot of rock guitar tunes but you can use these techniques you learn here in any key. The backing track is only drum and bass and displays the anticipations which are played in the rock riff examples.
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Once you are done with the basic rock guitar riffs you might want to proceed to the advanced rock guitar riffs :
 

Here you find 3 really cool pro long meter rock guitar licks in the key of Em. They allow you to play over the entire fretboard, look and sound cool and they are a great add to your regular rock lead guitar licks. Make sure that you know all pentatonic positions of the E minor pentatonic. The backing track is at 92 bpm so that those 16th notes you need to play are not such a challenge and it's still fast enough to sound great.
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Here you find some easy hard rock guitar licks in the key of Am. The are played in position no 1 + 4 of the minor pentatonics. The backing track is on 100 bpm. To learn the pentatonic in those 2 postions + gain some speed in your lead guitar technique you might check this tutorial first.
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Here you find some examples for a great rock guitar riff in E phyrgian. The examples work great with the cinematic backing track I created. It's fun - check it out !
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Here you find the tabs of the rhythm guitar of Ted Nugent's " Cat Scratch Fever " - I transcribed the official audio. There are also other versions out there so they can be different from this one here which is quite normal in Rock Music. The audio attached are the tabs together with the metronom. You can also play along with the original recording by Ted Nugent.
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Here you find a selection of licks in the key of F# which you can use to this backing track which is played with an acoustic guitar. The licks are open time - that means that you can shorten or stretch them the way you feel them. They just should give you an idea on how you can work on a major ballad track.
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Here you find the tabs of possible double stops which work over the progression which is displayed as well. The riff is part of " In This River " in the live version of the Black Label Society with Zakk Wylde.
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if you love this song you can also watch this tutorial here :
 

In This River ( Live ) - Black Label Society Zakk Wylde
This is the backing track of the live version of the Black Label Society ' s song " In This River ". It's only the part where Zakk Wylde is doing is great solo.
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here is an other tutorial which works with this backing track :
 

Here you find some ideas to make your alternative rock guitar song sound really special. I took the very very common progression with C / G / F / C G and made some really great sound versions of it. There is the main rhythm guitar which you can play with a slight distorted guitar which creates this deep alternative vibe and then add the other unusual chords to them. The backing track is drums, bass & the main guitar riff.
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Here you find a fun high tension drop D rock guitar riff. It's simple to play but still it sounds professional. You can play these tabs along with the backing track added.
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Here you find a selection of rhyhtm studies working with basic 16th note figures which are placed on each beat 1,2,3 or 4. This method alone is already quite sufficient to play a very tight and good rock guitar rhythm. There are 2 audio files attached. One is the backing track and one are the studies together with the backing track.
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Here you find a easy rock guitar riff which works great in any road rock guitar setting. Any rock road song would get a great vibe from this riff. There are 2 different guitars - one is the typical grooving straight forward riff and the other one gives a perfect wide vibe to it. The backing track is a http://www.music-pictures.com production with a cinematic approach.
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