Great Things Rock Stars Have Said To Make You Better At Guitar

I thought I’d put together, The Great Things Rock Stars Have Said To Make You Better At Guitar. For my enjoyment and YOURS too.

These will be from famous Rock Stars. Let’s get started!!!!

NOTE: These are not real Rock Stars. Have fun knowing what name for yourself you would create if you ever became a Rock Star. And also what you would say that’s great, (quote) to make people better at the guitar.

Mason Metal

Green and yellow train blurring by REAL quick.

Whenever you want to wake up, just grab a guitar, listen to music, then you’ll get “going” as the king Mason Metal said.

“Music is what propels you, ya know?…..just grab a guitar get psyched. That way you’ll be good to go for the rest of the day. Especially if you play a good song.” Mason Metal.

Jamming makes you do things you never would have done!

“Jamming will make you absorb off, you’ll think of stuff you never dreamed of, like a sponge taking it ALL in. You’ll be amazed. Your friends will be amazed. You’ll ALL be amazed!” Mason Metal.

He knew barre chords could be used to make your guitar sound massive and powerful.

”Initially, guitar was just drab and non compelling. Until! People showed me how to play barre chords. And then I began to learn ALL kinds of powerful songs, ALL kinds. It opened up a HUGE crater and that’s when things started getting really massive and powerful.” Mason Metal.

Branch out and play what you want to play, even if it’s different.

“You know? People used to get on me about, “you gotta just play what others are playing.” Their styles of music. The whole rock scene. “BE LIKE EVERYONE ELSE,” they would say! I said not nuh-uh, no way am I gonna be like every one else. I’ll just be my own poser, my own self. You know.” Mason Metal.

Again use music to wake you up. Especially if it’s new music. Get up and play guitar.

“I remember not being in the mood to do anything. Kinda like feeling tired, you know, until someone walked in my room, playing a new, unbelievable, sounding song. That did it for me. It woke me up! Then it definitely MADE me play guitar.” Mason Metal.

Again jamming can inspire you! Look at what Mason said.

“Jamming MAKES you create new songs. Rock songs that inspire. Rock songs that MOVE you. In our band. In anybody’s band.” Mason Metal.

Three railroad tracks, with change off, for different direction for trains.

“Once you get someone to jam with, be it one extra person or more, it can then turn into this massive explosion of ideas and sounds come out of nowhere. It’s outer worldly, it’s an experience, I tell you.” Mason Metal.

“You know? When you get stuck? Just get up and jam. Jam until that one or two songs pop out. Then you gots yourself some hits.” Mason Metal.

“Some people think you can’t jam unless you have a guitar player to jam with. But heck no. A saxophone, a organ or whatever instrument, especially a bass player and a drummer, who ever, man! It don’t matter. I do this when ever I can’t think of songs. And then, I know I’m on to something. I know I’m on my way to hitsville, of hit songs.” Mason Metal.

“Who where my heroes? I’ll tell you who my heroes were…. they were the greats of Jimi Hendrix, Eric Clapton, Ace Frehley. I mean who doesn’t like them? I mean come on. You know that KISS had some killer licks too, who doesn’t know that? You bet, yeah! Yeah, once you listen to them you have to go get your jamming partners together and tell them it’s on. It’s time to start writing songs.” Mason Metal.

Person flashing light around in circles, very fast on railroad tracks, at night. It’s a very spectacular view.

“So now they got it to where you can record on your phone or tablets now. I always say, “Get out the ol tablet. I’m u’ll strike a tune on it. [Laughs] While we jam.” Mason Metal.

Like I always say!

“Learn songs and licks and definitely rhythm, from the radio or even YouTube.” Mason Metal.

“Some rock stars never took lessons. They just learned their songs from the radio and what not. Whatever works, works.”Mason Metal.

“I would just listen to records and learn what I could, then just roll it over and over and over.” Mason Metal.

Ahh! He’s saying play by ear right here….. Use your ears to tell you when to go UP……and when to go DOWN on the guitar. (fretboard)……When the notes sound like they are going up the guitar, go up….. when the notes sound like they are going down the guitar, go down. Use your FEEL!

“Use your “feel,” to know where to play on the guitar. That’s the way it should be. At least for me. I gotta feel it man! Even when I am playing the solos I play, I am always using my ears to guide me where to go. I use the songs to tell me where to go. When the song sounds like it’s going up, I go up. When the songs sounds like it’s going down, I go down.” Mason Metal.

Mason tells how to get better at harmonics.

“Hook up two distortion boxes and you got it, you got the workings of your strings sounding different and wired , then it will bring out your harmonics.” Mason Metal.

Red Railroad train track lights, on a pole.

Learn to improvise.

“When you make a lot of mistakes and are messing up royally, you can then use those same mistakes and turn them on their head and find out, hey! That actually sounds COOL! Especially when you add the proper sounding notes around it.” Mason Metal.

“Experiment, experiment, experiment, when you get bored. Especially when you’re around your bros and you need to get pumped to get back in the game. That way it don’t get monotonous or repetitive, your playing.” Mason Metal.

Play covers first and then when you get experience break away and make your own songs.

“You know, even Van Halen played cover songs, which also became hits. Our band at the start played cover songs and we made a living off them, back then.” Mason Metal..

Railroad train tracks warning sign on side of road. And railroad warning painted on the road.

How power chords work and how to play them.

“Power chord in metal is the root/fifth. Incorporate barre chords and you got yourself a rock and roll band.” Mason Metal.

Get used to playing up and down the neck. Both horizontal and vertical. Mix it up.

“Don’t slack on your playin, instead use exercises that will make you play all over the guitar. Go up the neck as well as across it.” Mason Metal.

Don’t drown out the lead guitarist by playing at the same time. Or if you do play at the same time, have the rhythm guitar play lower. (lower sound).

“You be concerned with not blocking the sound of the lead guitarist by dropping back and letting him be heard and It’ll work out, like magic.” Mason Metal.

Railroad tracks alongside big green mountains, on both sides of it.

“Playing in the studio can be just like playing live. Add your guitars, your effects, just like on stage. And drop back and don’t play at the same time as the lead player is playing. And it will be just like we do live.” Mason Metal.

Use bends for a heavier, cooler sound.

“Your string bending will sound more meaty, more beefy. String bending definitely does that. And they’ll sound more hip.” Mason Metal.

Syncopation on guitar is just accenting your notes. Kinda like talking with a accent.

“Syncopation is like talking with a accent when you play it on the guitar. Use them every now and then. Then, also play without them, play normal.” Mason Metal.

17 Rocks

Blue drone flying by mountain boulders and ocean.

If you already know how to play by ear, what do you need to read music for. But if you don’t know how to play by ear, learn to read music, which will in time make you play songs you never played before by ear.

Look what 17 Rocks has to say.

“I don’t even read music at all.” 17 Rocks.

“All these schools always wanting you to know how to read music, what for? I already could just use my ear. These where prestigious school too. Lots of great players came out of them. But I went the ear route. Later on I did learn to read music, which made me even more of a threat. It made me better, in my opinion.” 17 Rocks.

Use your playing to get you through hard times.

“Lots of people we had conversations with listen to songs we play as well as ANY song to get through their hard times.” 17 Rocks.

“Me and Mackell think everyone has the same problems, the same worries that are common for people. But our playing brings us out of them from time to time.” 17 Rocks.

“Music gets you back to normal again. Just start playing and it brings you back up, above ground.” 17 Rocks.

“Fail you will, fall you will. Just get on up through anytime. That’s what it is.” 17 Rocks.

“Every days a new and fresh start.” 17 Rocks.

Glorious, BIG, HUGE, mountain boulders, colored golden brown, on the plains.

“Stay alive y’all, iight. If you can see down the tunnel or even if you can’t. There is still hope because all you gotta do is walk down that tunnel till you get out. There’s always more. ” 17 Rocks.

Make the music you want to play come out. Force it, then tame it.

“After you write and even when you are writing it can be a feeling of relief, either way.” 17 Rocks.

Sometimes playing music is hard work.

Glorious round, bright light, spinning around mountain at night.

“Being in a band requires you to do it even when you don’t feel like it but that leaves quickly when we think of our creator and fans.” 17 Rocks.

Play what you want to play, Man!

“They tell you to stick to only one style of music. Don’t bounce around. But not me. I’m just being myself. You can’t play everything anyway.” 17 Rocks.

Lucas Aiden

A picture of the world high up. A birds eye view or satellite view.

Your love for guitar can take you places.

“Guitar got me singing. The love of both keeps me going.” Lucas Aiden.

“I have inspiration from the old blues players, as well as The Beatles and The Rolling Stones. They are huge motivators as well. My love for guitar also allows me to keep playing and a little bit of them come out.” Lucas Aiden.

Do whatever it takes to get better at playing.

“It really started the ball rolling for me when I combined recording EPs and making YouTube videos as funding. This all happened in my teen years.” Lucas Aiden.

“You can’t say I went on AMERICAS GOT TALENT because I never have. But I did do some hard gigging. Even going so far as doing 5 shows in one night some times.” Lucas Aiden.

A picture of the world and moon high up. A birds eye view or satellite view.

“Write a lot of songs and do a lot of gigs and it all adds up, you will become good.” Lucas Aiden.

“It’s fun, even when people don’t show up when you’re first starting out as a musician. It allows you to still play even when they don’t show up. It can be weird when you a gigging and they are not the people who like your music. But I always knew how to make them end up liking it.” Lucas Aiden.

“Even if you’re not confident, start to play music. Then when it gets easy, throw yourself in front of a crowd.” Lucas Aiden.

Wyatt Elliott

Glorious buildings and sidewalk and bushes. A very clean place.

Figure out how to get good when you’re working on something on the guitar.

“I can tell how to play a song by ear even before I play the song. Through years of practice I can finally do it. I see the way to do it in my mind, before I even pick up the guitar.”Wyatt Elliott.

Get good at making music.

“I can provide you with music. I manufacture it.” Wyatt Elliott.

Big deck area and ocean and buildings. Deck guarded with fence rails.

“I’m scientific with my music. I make musical crafts and they are easy access for others to have.” Wyatt Elliott.

You’re going to have to work at it.

“Whatever! I’m going to have to work to earn it.” Wyatt Elliott.”

Roxx Machine

Big speaker mounted on building, outside.

Always practice and play the guitar.

“At times you won’t have time to play guitar. That’s alright you’ll get back in da flow in no time.” Roxx Machine.

Copy musicians so much, that you actually get good at it.

“I hear people cop my tunes on guitar and they play everything right, even my mistakes.” Roxx Machine.

Guitars haven’t always been around. So don’t take it for granted.

“The blues in the cotton fields actually made guitar playing popular. Sometime before that, they didn’t exist.” Roxx Machine.

If you want to get high, get high on music. Playing the guitar.

“No greater high than playing the guitar.” Roxx Machine.

6 HUGE Marshall amplifiers, on top of each other, two by twos.

“When you get on stage it will make you high. Why do you think musicians are always getting on them.” Roxx Machine.

Be dedicated to playing.

“Dedication. You gotta be set with playing.”Roxx Machine.

Keep playing fun, don’t let it be torture trying to learn it.

“Rock out! Have fun. It is fun. It’s exhilarating!.” Roxx Machine.

Landon Skylar

Glorious sunset shining down on skyscrapers, in the city.

Express yourself playing guitar.

“Expressing the guitar is my greatest gift.” Landon Skylar.

Use music to give you relief through your trails in life.

“The blues bring relief. They allow you to let it all out.” Landon Skylar.

“Music heals you up.” Landon Skylar.

“Relate your music to what you go through. Then you fans will relate to you. But also play upbeat knock um out songs.” Landon Skylar.

“A guitar hooked to the technology of amplification is a beast which can be hypnotic. And if you ain’t careful, you won’t want to stop! And why should you. [laughs].” Landon Skylar.

“It made me get rid of my shyness which used to inhibit me as a child. The sound of the guitar was so mesmerizing it helped with other areas of my life.” Landon Skylar.

Blueish skyscrapers, on a very beautiful day.

Listen to your influences and draw from them, even though it may not necessarily be exactly like them, when you play guitar, you will have your own style.

“I listened to the blue players from back then. But to be technical, the way I play blues is just a fraction of what they used to play. I just add rock to it. Landon Skylar.

Use your ear to match what you hear, by playing it on the guitar.

“Copy what you hear in your mind.” Landon Skylar.

“I could make good sounds come out the guitar. Which made me keep on playing it. Got to the point where my ears let me express it. Glad my grandmother bought me it. Landon Skylar.

If you can’t get good on nylon strings, then switch to acoustic or electric strings. No big deal. You’ll be alright!

Blueish and brown tall buildings, on a cloudy day, next to the ocean.

“I played a guitar made of guts. It was actually a spanish guitar. Couldn’t play it but I tried for about three weeks. That was when I was real young. Landon Skylar.

Be so good at the guitar that it’s as easy as talking.

“Originally I was making my guitar talk after a short time of playing. You know the techniques of it all the bends and runs.” Landon Skylar..

If you REALLY want to get good at the guitar, take it EVERYWHERE with you.

“Everywhere the guitar goes, I go. Aint that what Jimi Hendrix used to do? Landon Skylar.

Snope Swift

Graffiti underground building, with stairs leading down into it. Graffiti and trash all over the place, in it.

If you don’t want to sing and play guitar maybe you will later, just like Snope Swift.

“I always just wanted to play rhythm guitar only, then all of a sudden singing came in.” Snope Swift.

Find freedom in what you play. No matter what style of music you like.

“Punk music frees you up. It’s a expression. But if you think about it doesn’t every song we listen to free you up. It’s a freedom to be able to listen too it. Snope Swift.”

“I was always looking for songs that had melody and had that heaver sound, with a attitude.Snope Swift.

Graffiti filled building, with post in it and also a square hole in the floor.

“Some bands do sell out when they are punk bands. Yes they do. But people gotta realize that sometimes people just change. Snope Swift.

Don’t let being left handed stop you from playing the guitar.

“I’ve seen some left handed guitars in my life and yet Jimi could master ANY guitar.” Snope Swift.

Maybe you too, will like guitars with skinny necks or do like them.

“Fender style guitars have skinny necks. They’re great.” Snope Swift.

Xavier X

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Play music to stop from being bored.

“Without music it would be boring.” Xavier X.

Rock music doesn’t have to be perfect in terms of words.

“Rock magazines have now gone online to talk, play and jam.” Xavier X.

Use music to shape and sculpt.

“Use Music to shape. Shape the people listening to it to, to shape their happiness.”Xavier X.

Use your imagination to make music and profit from it.

“Art comes out of nowhere it seems but it’s really our creative thoughts and then you make money off it. Xavier X.

Breed Rockster

Boulder underground, with blue light beam, shining down in it.

Have a real love for the instrument.

“When first starting for me at least. I started with innocence. The instrument was great a fascination. It still is. I’ll never tire of it.” Breed Rockster.

YOU CAN PLAY THE GUITAR! YOU’RE CAPABLE OF ANYTHING!

“Every person is able and has capacity to do anything.” Breed Rockster.

Keep playing the guitar. Sometimes, before you even pick it up from time to time, you may not feel like it. But when you play it, you will be rewarded.

“Nature will notice you and reward you when you work, you will earn it. There’s no other way it works. It will be celebrated by you as you see your reward.” Breed Rockster.

Brace yourself down and learn how to get better at the guitar. Learn what you want to learn and then play it.

Bouldered cave with opening, showing green underbrush and rock mountains.

“Sit on the ground then fly when you get up, because even Superman flew. It’s how you experience freedom. Apply that to playing…

…sit to play get up to play and then you’re free to play whatever you want. Don’t restrict yourself cause Superman never did.” Breed Rockster.

Do whatever it takes, to be creative at guitar.

“I get away from it all by going to another city and then I let the creative juices flow. Works for me.” Breed Rockster.

“After pumping out recording after recording I like to just get away from it all….

….by diving in a nice cool swimming pool.” Breed Rockster.

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“I push myself to get out of the comfort zone then I can become better at playing than I was in the past. Then more music just pours out.”Breed Rockster.

Use music to grow.

“Music allows me to grow in ways that some can’t imagine. It opens doors. All kinds of things open up.” Breed Rockster.

Think of and create songs, if that’s what you really want to do.

“Working in this business allows freedom. You are also free to create music. And at the same time….

….get paid for it. And not just money but it pays you with friendships.” Breed Rockster.

A bouldered cave with a opening, showing the glorious sun and bouldered rock mountains, out of the opening.

“I will fight to get you songs. Just like a fighter in a ring.” Breed Rockster.

DO WHAT YOU WANT!

“I do what I want. Play the songs I want. Why should I play songs I don’t like. That’s no fun. That’s what made me want to play in the first place, you know?” Breed Rockster.