Classical music played on the acoustic guitar

Classical guitar music is seen by alot of people as being somehow inaccesible without years of study. But the term "clasical music" is very broad, and when put together with the guitar, it could refer as much to Latin music or The Beatles as to music from two hundred years ago! If you weren't seduced by the electric guitar during your childhood or teen years, what is it that attracts you to classical guitar music? Is it the delicacy of the Elizabethan dance music? The rich and vibrant sound of a great classical guitar? Maybe you'd like to dazzle and delight an audience like John Williams or Julian Bream.
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Rhythm And Lead Guitar

So much terminology, so many things to learn - rhythm guitar, lead guitar, drums, bass, the phone number of the drunk chick in the front row. Let's start with lead guitar. The lead guitarist is the dude who plays the tunes. When the singer stops singing, and one of the guys with guitars starts playing a bunch of notes, he's the lead guitarist. Sometimes the notes he is playing are what we call an "improvised solo". This means the guitar dude is making up the music as he goes along. He learns some sets of notes called scales, and he gets to know where on the guitar neck he needs to play his scales to fit in with the key of the song the band is playing. Sometimes he will be basing his solo, one way or another, on a riff or melody he learned from listening to, and trying to play, other people's music.
The guitar player who just strums chords is the rhythm guitarist. He learns the basic chords to the songs, sometimes adding chords of his own, and uses the srumming patterns of the song as the basis for his own interpretation of the song. So there's a little room there for the rhythm guitar player to do some creative stuff.
The lead guitarist needs to learn judicious use of the whammy bar and the effects pedals as well as lead guitar playing techniques like hammer-ons and pull-offs and using up and'or down strokes of the plectrum. But if you want to learn to play lead guitar, it's best to start with rhythm guitar techniques.More info on learning to play lead guitar!

What about the bass guitar?

The Electric bass guitar has been around since the 1920's when Lloyd Loar designed the first electric double bass and has become the standard bass instrument for popular modern music, and, through all its changes in design, remains the backbone of rock. As time goes on the electric bass guitar is becoming more and more popular. It has almost totally superseded the old upright acoustic bass. It provides the low-pitched bassline and bass runs in pop, rock and jazz. Bass players also do nifty solos in jazz, fusion, and latin music.
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