Electric Guitar Day 1 - Learn Your FIRST SONG Here!

Hey everyone, I'm Andy Crowley, thank you for joining me for day one of this 10 day electric guitar course where we're setting absolute beginner guitarists the challenge of playing guitar for 10 minutes a day for 10 days. This is perfect for brand new guitar players to get playing real songs right away and getting familiar with electric guitar with the most well-known, easy songs to play. If you're a more experienced guitar player, what was your first? Song or first riff you learnt on electric guitar, let me know in the comments below. Let's help out all the new guitar players out there to get started in the right way. Acoustic guitar players can check out the 10 day acoustic programme, that's just here on YouTube. I'll leave a link in the description below as well. Electric guitar players keep watching. Here's the first easy riff that we're going to learn, even as the first thing you play on electric guitar. Here's the lesson. Smoke on the water, this is the number one riff that most electric guitarists learn as their first song, especially guitarists that stick with it, that stick with music. I've found that from interviewing the bands that I've interviewed on YouTube over the past couple of years, and they all learn it in this fashion, the easiest way to play Smoke on the water is with starting with the open E string, string 6123456, so the thickest string. And that's our first note. And then importantly, we palm mute, which just means laying all the palm of the hand over all six strings, so if any of the other strings ring out, we can silence them. Then we take our index finger and press the 3rd fret on again string 6. It's all gonna be on this string 6, and that is our second note. So 0. 3 In tab, 0 fret, and then 3rd fret, that's how it looks in tap. The next note is gonna be the 3rd fret, which for most, these would be the dotted frets on most guitars, and the ones with inlays in them. My guitar happens to have one at the 1st fret as well, but it's most common that 3rd fret and 5th. Are the 3 notes that are dotted and have an inlay to them, and we want that slight palm mute before playing every note. We're gonna get a slight sliding noise cos we're using one finger, that's 035. Is the start of this riff. The next part starts exactly the same, it goes 03, and then we go to fret 6, and then quickly to 5. So this is the first non-dotted fret we've played, it's in between 5 and 7, that's what we use these dots for, and the inlays for, and we play 65, in quick succession, no space between the notes. Doesn't matter what you do with the other fingers, just relax them. Those 4 notes in total for that second line of this song. Then we play the first line again. And then it's simply 30. Let me demo all of that in total just with one finger, nice and slow, play along to this as soon as you feel ready. 1234. 34. And if you have some overdrive on your guitar and you're using an electric guitar, it should sound something like that. For this particular video, I'm using my Boss Cortana again, this time on the brown sound setting to give a little bit more overdrive. All the EQ and amp settings are all at vertical, so gain, and all the NQ, bass, middle, and treble is all just vertical, so 5 out of 10. But remember, guitar type and pickup type matters, as we looked at in the very first video of my beginner electric course. Once you can do all that riff with one finger, we wanna try and use your third finger to play fret 5 and fret 6 in this fashion. This is what we want to work towards. practise of the finger exercises and jam tracks that we've looked at so far in this beginner electric course will really help with this, but the general idea is we keep the first finger hovering over fret 3 and the third finger hovering over fret 5. They can be quite flat, they don't have to be right on their tips, so this is great to go along with. Open cord work cos it will save the tips of your fingers, and we just go 2340350365 035. 0. Again, 234. So there we are, that is how to play the most common first riff that electric guitarists learn, especially those that stick with playing guitar beyond that first year. And that is day one of this 10 day electric guitar challenge. I hope you've enjoyed it so far. Let me know how that went for you in the comments below. There's a link down there for day two, I'll leave. The link for day two on the screen as well, but remember you can get bonus videos and bonus content 100% free at Andyguitar.co.uk in the website version of this course. It's the same main videos with some free bonus content down there as well. I hope you'll join me over there, and I'll see you when you're ready for day two.