Then you can decide whether you want to tackle the hardest parts first or start with the easiest parts and work your way to the harder parts. If you want you can also rank all the parts from easiest to hardest. On the other hand, the verse riff is extremely easy and can be learned and mastered very quickly. Some parts will be harder than others so it’s good to know before you start which parts are going to take longer and which parts you’ll be able to get through quickly.įor example, the solo in Enter Sandman is easily the hardest part of the song and it’s quite long. Once you have your list of parts written down as a checklist, take a look at each part and mark on your sheet how easy/hard they look to you. While there are other parts in the song such as some extra lead licks, learning the above parts will get you through the entire song. It feels good to cross parts off of a list as you learn them.įor example here is a list of the main riffs to learn for Enter Sandman: Having a checklist of all the different parts in the song gives you something you can aim for and tick off as you go.īeing able to cross a riff or progression off as you learn it makes the entire process a lot more rewarding. Some songs will only have a few different parts while others can have a lot of different parts. Have a look through all of the guitar tracks and start writing down all the different riffs/chord progressions you find. This is helpful if you want to focus on different types of parts such as the rhythm or lead tracks. In this song, you can see there are two guitarists (James Hetfield and Kirk Hammett) and different tracks for different guitar parts. Open up your Guitar Pro file and take a look at the different instruments at the bottom of the screen: Scroll to the bottom and you’ll see a link to download the Guitar Pro Tab as you can see below:ĭownload the Guitar Pro file and save it somewhere you will remember for later on. Don’t worry about any of that – we just want the free download. Once you click that link you will see ads for the ‘Pro Version’. There’s one with 453 ratings and four and a half stars so that one is a good starting point. If I click the ‘Guitar Pro’ option highlighted above, I can see there are a few Guitar Pro versions with different star ratings. What we want is to download the most popular/highest rated Guitar Pro version. Once you enter the song name in the search bar, you will probably see a lot of options for the song: Start by searching on for the song you want to learn. You can follow the same steps for easier or harder songs. There are a lot of different parts to this song so it’s a good example. They have the largest collection of song transcriptions online – all for free.Īs an example, I’m going to show you how I would learn to play the song ‘Enter Sandman’ by Metallica. In this lesson, I’ll show how to find good quality Guitar TAB from. The good news is that there are plenty of free Guitar TAB websites you can use to find almost any song transcription you want.Ĭheck out the best free Guitar TAB websites here. While you can learn songs by ear, this is an advanced skill I suggest learning later on ( find out how to learn songs by ear here). The first step to learning a song on guitar is to find the song’s transcription. Once you have Guitar Pro up and running, you can move on to Step 1 and start learning songs.Ĭheck out my review of Guitar Pro 8 here to learn all about it.
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