10 Top Things to Master in Your Guitar Skills

Nowadays, a lot of people are really getting on playing the guitar. The reason is because you can impress your friends, you can sing a song in parties, events. You can even court someone by singing to them (although it's ancient, sometimes it still work) So what I want to share to you, is what you need to improve and be an impressive guitar player.

1. Strumming- it's a basic skill, you do this by brushing your fingers or pick in the guitar.
2. Tuning - a guitarist can't be great when he/she doesn't know how to tune their guitars. So you better practice your ears and tune that guitar in no time.
3. Palm Muting - a guitar skill that makes the sound of the guitar strong and powerful, this adds tension to the song and makes it more explosive.
4. Picking - This is an all time favorite guitar skill, the pick and your picking skills will make you look a cooler guitarist.
5. Bending - refers to stretching them with the left hand to increase their pitch, gradually or instanly.
6. Sliding - a guitar technique to make the sound of each fret, soft
7. Hammers and Pulloffs - These two things refer to techniques employed by the left hand to sound notes without the direct aid of the right hand. A "hammer on" is when a note is sounded, and while it is still ringing, a left hand finger is used to quickly press down a fret that is on the same string, and close to the original fret. A "pull off" is basically the same thing, but backwards. We can use a finger to fret a note, and then sound that note. While the note is still sounding, a finger can be placed directly behind the first finger, and then the first finger can be "pulled off". In doing this, it is in effect the same as plucking the string with a finger, it creates vibrations.
8. Legato - A combination of sliding and hammering, this technique is used to play the notes smoothly.
9. Plucking - One plucks a stringed instrument with the finger to make a sound distinct from strumming.
10. The Chords - Of course, how can you play the guitar if you don't know what exact chord are playing? So every guitarist needs to master this.