An Approach To Song Covers

I told ya all earlier to start playing with the help of your favorite song. In this post i would like to tell you about how to approach the same. Let us first examine what all we have, i got my guitar(acoustic or electric), i got the guitar pro software, i got the Pro tab of my favorite song and last but not the least i got the will. To put it in a nutshell-Ammo's packed and ready to fire.

I assume you all know how to read a guitar tab,if not no worries i shall make a post about it soon telling you the basics.

The first and foremost thing we gotta do is select a particular riff. Alright now play that riff on guitar pro and hear how it sounds, now read the tab and figure out the notes on the guitar(Tab reading basically). When you've got a hang of what note comes after what, this is when comes in the concept of "co-ordination".I know what your thinking, "Bah! That's obvious"!. Haha Yeah i know but it was important for me to mention this because you see co-ordination does not just imply that you have to play the notes such that it sounds like the riff. Trust me you will be able to match the sound of the riff but however it would only be somewhat similar. What im trying to say is that you should keep an eye rather an ear out for how long the sound of a particular note lasts. If you can get a grip on this it would lead to you sounding like the original riff rather than a cover. Moreover comes a concept of beats and the use of a metronome for the same but that's a tad advanced so we'll get to that later.


Now, well it's simple you keep practicing the same riff till you attain some sort of perfection and move on to the next one. Once you have completed say maybe five riff's, try playing all the riff's together continuously. Let me tell you this now that getting the hang of it is not just difficult but would drive you a little crazy at times so what im tying to say is you just gotta keep your cool and see it through.