Terrifying Guitar Tricks - A Guide for Beginners

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It's easy for your guitar playing to get stuck in a rut. It's inevitable that when you really work on a style and sound of your own you can find yourself repeating the same things over and over, eventually boring yourself with your own playing. It can be hard to break out of this feeling, and it's a major contributor to the dreaded writer's block.

The beauty of playing rock music is that the electric guitar is such an expressive instrument and can offer you so many different sounds that with a little creativity you should be able to work in something new to your playing on a weekly basis. Thinking outside the box is vital and sometimes trying something completely crazy and different with the guitar can really spur your creativity. In this article I'm going to look at a few of the tricks and strange sounds you can make with the electric guitar. While some aren't the most musical they're definitely fun to play and may even inspire you to write a new song.

Harmonics are perhaps the greatest source of unusual sounds from a guitar.