Converting multi guitar parts to one player
So now thanks to GT I've got some beginner songs under my belt, I'm wondering if a song has two guitar parts how do you play it yourself? If you look at tab it shows to separate parts, do you learn them both? Or is this one of the drawbacks to learning from tab? I'm not quite ready to play along with recorded versions and picking out the parts yet. Does anyone in the forum have any thoughts please and thank you.
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Originally Posted by: Greg@SunSo now thanks to GT I've got some beginner songs under my belt, I'm wondering if a song has two guitar parts how do you play it yourself? If you look at tab it shows to separate parts, do you learn them both? Or is this one of the drawbacks to learning from tab? I'm not quite ready to play along with recorded versions and picking out the parts yet. Does anyone in the forum have any thoughts please and thank you.
If there are two guitar parts you can pick one or the other, or play a hybrid of both. It's really up to you.
Generally, two guitar parts will mean you'll have one of each of the following:
- Rhythm Guitar
- Lead Guitar
Rhythm handles chords, strumming, etc. while lead handles soloing, melody and single-note sequences. Since you're a beginner, my advice would be to start out with one or the other.
While there are ways to "meld" the two together and sortof play both parts at the same time, you've got to get good and both rhythm and lead guitar first, as independent disciplines.
Hope this helps. Let me know.
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