In this video guitar lesson I’m going to give you some tips on
how to approach learning guitar riffs. And I’m going to be using
a small section of the song “Hells Bells” by AC/DC to do it. If
you are learning a new guitar riff, break it down into different
smaller parts, and practice those parts separately. And practice
those parts that are giving you more difficulty more often. A
bad habit that some people get into is just practicing a whole
guitar riff all at once. And then they end up playing some parts
faster and others slower….and even come to a screeching halt on
others. But more practice on the whole riff will not do the
trick. It becomes a waste of your practice time to keep going
over the parts you are already comfortable with, as you struggle
on other parts. One quick real world example is a song I was
working on with a private guitar student recently. He is
learning the song “Hells Bells” from AC/DC. And after the main
riff plays 5 times, it starts to play again but there are a
couple of different