Rock Guitar

Here you find a very easy emotional soft rock guitar riff which sounds really wonderful. I have wrote 2 versions which you can use alternative the way you want. For the lead guitar I have added some Target Note Ideas which help you to develop your own target note ideas in your lead guitar. The backing track comes out of my music-pictures.com studios and have a wonderful cinematic approach.
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Here you find a few idea's and scales to work on the high E-string in the key of C# minor. The backing track attached is also in the key of C# minor.
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Here you find 3 shuffle rock guitar licks which work in the key of Bm. The first one is a classical pentatonic lick, the 2nd one is using the blues scale and the 3rd one is following the chords with sweep picking arpeggio's. The backing track is on 100 bpm.
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Here you find a wonderful and sweet rock guitar ballad which is played with open strings in the key of Am. Even it seems easy it needs a bit of practice to get those arpeggio's nice and fluently. There are also 2 examples of melodic soling added to the tabs which can give you an idea how to make a melodic rock guitar balade solo.
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Here you find some cool tabs of a rock guitar riff in key of Dm and played with a drop D tuning. There are a few figures displayed which you can play the way they are showing. The backing track is only drum and bass so you can work on your rock guitar trio sound.
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Advanced Rock Guitar Secrets - Tabs & Backing Track
Here is a selecetion of advanced rock guitar licks in the key of Gm. You can practice them best to the backing track attached here as well.
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Creative Rock Guitar Riff - Tabs & Backing Track
Here you can see on how to develop a very simple rock guitar riff with the chords A / F G from a very simple approach to more sophisticated by adding something more every 2nd row you play it. All modules of this rock guitar riff can be mixed up the way you like it but I strongly recommend to repeat one specifice versio at least 2 times that the listener has a chance to experience the development of the riff. The backing track is very simple and leaves you the open space for your rock guitar work.
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Dirty Blues Rock Lead Guitar - Tabs, Audio & Backing Track
Here you find a chorus of a blues rock lead guitar solo. It works together with the backing track added here with the chords :
D / D / D / D
C / G / D / D
C / G / D / A
There are 2 audio files added. One is the backing track and one is the exported audio from the tab software that you know how exactly this tabs should sound - well more or less. Please also check this tutorial here to work properly with these files :
 

Rock Lead Guitar Exercises - Tabs & Backing Track
Here is a selection of rock lead guitar exercises in the key of E. You can practice them slowly and then start to use them on any rock guitar backing track in the key of Em - or just use the one attached here.
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Hard HARD Rock Guitar - Tabs & Backing Track
Here you can a very cool hard rock guitar riff + 3 mega chops which you can use in any hard rock guitar setting. The backing track is played with the riff you see in the tabs.
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Hard Rock Guitar Riff ( In Your Face )- Tabs & Backing Track
This is a right into your face hard rock guitar riff in the key of E and on 130 bpm. On this tempo it sound really cool and straight into your face.There is a backing track inclueded where you can jam along with this great riff. You can try those licks which I have added or any other.
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Steady Hard Rock Guitar Riff - Tabs & Backing Track
This is a very cool hard rock guitar riff in the key of Am using the open A string in the first part to get this driving and steady sound. The backing track is in 100 bpm which creates this wonderful and nice driving sound.
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Basic Rock Guitar Licks : Tabs & Backing Track
Here you find 7 basic rock guitar licks which work in any rock guitar setting and make you sound great even if you only know only these licks here. The licks are in the key of Am but they work in any key and any backing track. The attached backing track is in a medium tempo that beginners don't have a too big challenge.
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80's Rock Balade Guitar Riff - Tabs & Backing Track
This is a very cool 80's rock balade guitar riff in the key of C#m which has to be played with sweep picking in order to make it sound so fluent. The backing track was a moment of magic back to 2006 where it was recorded.
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Roadhouse Blues Rock Guitar Riff - Tabs & Backing Track
This is a very cool roadhouse blues rock or rock blues guitar riff and a great backing track in the key of Am with 80 bpm
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Kick Start My Heart ( Mötley Crüe ) - Tabs & Audio
These are the tabs and the audio file of the song " Kick Start My Heart " by Mötley Crüe. The audio is an audio export of the tabs. You can to follow it exactly as the notes are written.
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Bad Ass Drop D Classic Rock Guitar Riff & Backing Track
Here you find a great rock guitar riff played with a Drop D tuning. Even it is a drop D tuning the riff is in Em. The backing track is only drums and bass.
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Smooth Rock Blues Riff - Tabs & Backing Track
This is a great rock blues guitar riff which is basicly a blues in E kind in the style of " The Jack " by AC DC or other similar rock blues guitar tunes in E. E works great because of the open strings which can be palm muted. The backing track in only Drums & Bass so that you can really practice this tune.
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Dynamic Classic Rock Guitar Riff & Backing Track
Here are some tabs to play a really classic classic rock guitar riff. It starts slow and easy in the first 8 bars and then it enters to a really classic rock guitar riff which you can play on several dynamic levels. The backing track which is added is only drums & bass and works perfect for your practice routines.
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Here you find 3 long meter rock guitar licks in the key of Am. They are either in the A aeolian scale or in the A blues scale. The backing track is a rock guitar backing track in Am with 100bpm.
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Classic Rock Guitar Riff - Tabs and Backing Track
This is a very cool classic rock guitar riff & the backing track where you hear how it sounds. You can use the A minor scale for the solo if you want to give a try. I have added 2 cool runs which work great on this track.
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Here you find the tabs and the backing track to the song " Rumble " by Link Wray. The drums are not totaly original but they work.
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Here you find some really easy rock guitar riff exercises for a simple rock guitar tune in the key of D. The exercises build up from very simple to more complex combinations how you can play this really simple progression : Dm / Dm / Dm / Dm / Dm / Dm / Dm / Dm / Bb / C / Dm / Dm / Bb / C / A / A
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Metal Guitar - Essential Rhythm Studies Tabs & Backing Tracks
If you want to get into Metal Guitar you need to know the basic rhythm figures which are unfortunately based on 16th notes. If you don't know rhythm and rhythm notation you will have quit a hard time. So these rhythm studies will help you to learn the rhythm notation which is used in metal guitar. In these rhythm studies you first learn the basic rhythm figures including the pauses which are also important and in the second part you learn to make combinations out of the basic figures. It is very important that you can locate each of the 4 notes which makes a 16th note group. If you are able to play and sight - read the 2nd part of these studies you managed these rhythm studies. To make it easier for you you can play the studies just with the low E string which already sounds a lot like Metal Guitar. Start with 60 bpm then rise the tempo. I have exported the audio file with 75 bpm which is still slow but gives you the time to still figure out the different parts. If you can play the studies with 120 bpm then you are near to a Metal Guitar Master.
I have added 2 backing tracks with metal music in E in 70 bpm and 105 bpm that you can practice those exercises in 2 different tempo's.
If you don't know rhythm notation at all - here you find all you need to know about it :
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Essential Timing Exercises - full, half, quarter and 8th notes
In rock guitar timing is very important. The more tight you play your chords or single note lines the more " rock " your guitar will sound. Here is now a summary of the main essential rhythm figures you need to know when it comes to rock guitar. Practice them with a click or a rock drum loop in different tempo's because every tempo feels different and also pay close attention that your foot is also hitting the click of the metronome or the quarter notes of the rock drum loop.
The first part are the main rhythm figures which you need to know in detail how they feel, sound and how they look like in written notation. The second part are exercises from easy till advanced. You can control with the attached audio file if you have done the exercise correct. To achieve mastery in this topic also start to write your own exercises and play them with any chord you like.
If you don't know rhythm notation at all please view this short documentation :
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