Learning Guitar
Tuesday, June 2nd, 2009Learning Guitar 
Lead is single notes. Think of the instrumental bit in most rock songs, it is usually a guitar that fills this break. (You know … the bit in the song that you used to play air-guitar so well to in the mirror!) Rhythm is constant throughout the song … the guitarist plays full chords (hitting all six strings) to create the "background" to the song.
70% of the people I meet want to learn lead first. After all, it sounds the most exciting!
But this is definitely (in my opinion) the wrong way to learn. Absolutely learn to play good rhythm first. Rhythm is extremely important. Most newcomers to music don’t realize just how important as the rhythm guitar kind of "blends" into the background … but if it stops … you REALLY notice it. It’s like something just … "died" in the music.
If you hear a band playing and the rhythm guitarist for some reason stops, it’s like the music becomes very "empty". The middle has gone out of it and all you are left with is drums and bass. 
Don’t for a minute doubt the importance of rhythm guitar players. In fact, a band could not exist without a rhythm guitarist (or at least some instrument to take this role).
And if you are thinking of being a solo performer, playing just lead would sound pointless.
Think of some of Jack Johnson’s songs. He plays rhythm almost all of the time. (And does a good job of it too!).
SO remember .. Rhythm 1st … Lead Later!
Author: N. R. Edser
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