11 ESSENTIAL Punk Guitar Techniques
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- Опубліковано 11 вер 2024
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You forgot to name one: have stickers on your guitar
on your strat*
@@filip4269 Squier**
@@jimjetson815 I would say any copy of a strat
@@jimjetson815 my friend, you just described me with my squier strat with a David Bowie and Misfits sticker, I am a beginner so playing punk is relatively simple for me, and it helps me continue improving my skills, after all, I learned alternate picking trying to learn Blitkrieg Bop and not being fast enough 😂
😂
I've said it before and I'll say it again.
The 3 P's of Punk Rock:
1. Palm Mute
2. Power Chords
3. Pickslides
And if you wanna Blink it up, throw in some octaves!
downstrokes
Never said this before (never thought I would have to)...The three Fs of punk are...
1. Fuzz
2. Frenzy
3. Fuck It
Wanna black flag it?
Pleeeeeeaaaase octaves were used way before Blink ! NOFX, No Use For A Name, Face to Face, Strung Out....and I'm just mentioning my favorite bands cause there are like hundreds of them ! It's typical to Skate Punk and Melodic hardcore, not to Blink ONLY !!!
Flagada Jones Yeah dude I know. I just mentioned Blink as I listened to them a lot growing up and the octaves in their riffs are some of my favourites. In no way did I mention that Blink invented octaves or were the only band to ever use octaves. NOFX, Strung Out and especially Face to Face are some of my favourites. Skate Punk forever dude!
Haha this is a summary of my technical skills
Yea, started learning,like..4 months ago
Am I right??
Power Chords - Safe European Home by The clash
Downstrokes - Sheena Is A Punk Rocker by Ramones
Pickslides - Honor is all we Know by Rancid
Octave Chords - Savior by Rise Against
Palm Muting - Fuck Authority by Pennywise
Barre Chords - Smile by Descendents
Power Chord Riffs - Helena by Misfits
Hammer Ons - Anthem Part 2 by blink-182
Pull Offs - Bring me home by Millencolin
Bends - Tabloid Magazine by The Living End
Tremolo Picking - DVP by PUP
thanks Man for info about Pennywise great Riff
I primarily play metal. When learning guitar (18 years ago) I learned a lot of these guitar techniques from learning punk songs .
That s the way it is: Punk guitar as the beginner gateway to metal and other styles even
Makes me want to go back to my basics. In truth i've learned may things about playing guitar but nothing as ever been as fun as Punk Rock i just never really got over it.
it's like a real life punk-o-matic
I'm glad people still remember
Awesome game
Dood
Ooh ! I had totally forgot about that !
@@Th3Raz96 Yeaaaaah Like the good old days Man!
0:11 and thats it end of video now you can play any punk song
Nice vid. This is something i’ve been interested in for a while. The original era punk rock bands of the 80s have a slightly different style than the 90s bands. Their sound takes a lot of inspiration from Rock n Roll, Rockabilly and Surf music. If you take Chuck Berry style licks, play them louder, harder and with a more aggressive gain setting you’ve got a solid baseline for a punk rock solo. Play full bar-chords all down strokes and you’ve got that Ramones sound. Obviously there is more to it than that but I think thats a starting point
Glad to see a guitars being used that anyone can afford and they are great I don’t care what anyone says and being played through affordable gear
4:48 PUP - DVP "You're sister thinks that i'm a FREAK"
T L-D you goin to see them in concert during their tour?
“Punk guitar has no technique”
That is the technique
It would be easy to say that punk is more about attitude than technique, but you gotta play the songs right or they don’t sound right.
While there's definitely technique to punk, most of the time punk instrumentals are (compared to it's contemporaries) pretty basic
Ignorant
Some of it does, THIS guy doesn't though
Punk is very diverse. It is the easiest way to play the electric guitar and I still use all these techniques today. Even if it is very, very basic, To play well, it takes practice. Like everything. And I think My songs sound good. This being said, if you play drunk punk rock ...it can still be less technical, an have "something"...
Man. Where were you when I was growing up. Oh wait the internet wasn’t a thing. Keep on bro. Love this shit. Hope you inspire thousands of future musicians punk rock is about having fun.
5:00 it was so unsatisfactroy hearing the last note ring out instead of "YOUR SISTER THINKS THAT I'M A FREAK"
Dude same, i almost screamed the lyric until it cut off. Mildly Infuriating
SHES BEEN IGNORING MY CALLS WE HAVENT SPOKEN IN A WEEK
oh those canadians
I always thought that the only two guitar techniques for punk were alcohol and drugs
That's funny as fuck
I mean, you aren't technically wrong
not if you're straight edge
Jeremy Renner but is that punk tho
@@pappalars5295 google minor threat and tell me
Finally someone who acknowledge THE LIVING END
yeah Tabloid Magazine
Glad I'm not the only one who noticed
YES
Tio Djati living end where gold second solution their cover of rising sun originally by cold chisel
Oh I started singing immediately! Lol
Back in the mid to late nineties guitar one magazine had a "how to play punk" article that hit about all the same points you did. You teach an excellent lesson to new generation out there.
Thats how i leadnr to eat da kitty
These are the techniques i go by
Number one is looks
Number two is guts, tension
Number three is action
Maybe four, five nothing
six is skill, technique
God bless you, Guitar Wolf
You forgot to add the “Linoleum”-style 16-beat mute guitar rhythm for skatepunk :)
These are all great techniques that I'm definitely practicing on guitar and getting better at!
3:09 Misfits - Helena
Thank you
*insert uninformed elitist metal head comment
“Punk guitar has no technique”
lmfao yes, my people
Not that punk has no technique though, it's just more focused on liberating through the music instead of making a complex song to impress people with.
@@lunarscorpio3987 That's one of the best explanations I've seen
"muh picksweeps and tapping, muh drop z tuning"
I thought having no technique was the whole point
"Keep it simple"
Another great video! Although to be fair, a few of these techniques are really kinda universal guitar things you should know for playing any genre (like bar chords, hammer ons and pull offs, and palm muting).
What really messes me up with playing punk songs is down strumming. I know I should just practice it more, it just murders my wrist. I can do it but it's unpleasant. It's deceptively challenging in my opinion. But it might just be a personal thing since I've had chronic pain in my right wrist since I was like 7 (so like since 16 years ago).
Now if only i could master that strumming pattern Eric Melvin uses a lot of, I've never sat down and tried to play it but I feel like it really gives nofx songs their characteristic feel. Ya know. Might be cool if you did a video on punk rhythm guitar riffs or something like that, rhythm guitarists are underrated universally especially in punk cause they really make the genre what it is. Just an idea.
I dont think its a necessary thing.
Just a convention.
Does make such a big difference in sound
My heart pumps punk... so awesome to see those techniques in a video. You did a great work!
The audio is missing from halv the video
Loved the Helena part
The audio seems to drop out a bunch...what gives?
He was copyrighted is my guess so he had To mute the song in order to keep it up and monetized
The best thing to take away here is Downstroking, Powerchords, and Tremolo. That right there is how you bridge all genres of punk rock and hardcore punk. You won't find alternate picking (unless the tempo is above 220 bpm which is common) and it's rare to find barre chords and stuff being used. Other tips I'd definitely give is try out lower tunings, but do not do drop tunings that is a Metalcore and Nu Metal thing. D standard is my favorite (whole step down) but half step down is common as well. Stay as fast as possible, nothing should be lower than 180 bpm, you want to build your speed and endurance. When songwriting, try not to ever go above the 2 minute mark unless you are doing some Sludge Metal or Noisecore stuff. Also know when to use 2 finger and 3 finger power chords, my thing is using 3 finger power chords when you are doing eighth note progressions and slower stuff, but when doing tremolo picking sections with blast beats I'd recommend using 2 finger power chords. If you are moving chords a lot try using 2 finger as well. Also experiment with distortion and tone, you want to keep it relatively flat and even on the eq but definitely high on the gain but also balanced. Overall it's about speed, efficiency on the fretboard, heavy tone, and short songs. You also have to adhere to the tradition of downstroking, you have to make the former legends of the punk scene happy and retain that beautiful tradition all us punks share. Blast and thrash away my friends.
Seeing the video for smells like teen spirit...got me into guitar 22yrs ago ish
I really enjoyed figuring out the covers you were doing for each technique, great vid man!!
2:27 Descendents!! Smile
Great video.... I hope you can make tutorial video how to built pop punk/punk rock style solo...
Song was so cool at the end bro ! Great video
Great! Gonna listen it while driving. So many good songs in one
I’m no professional but I could make out these:
Pick slide: Honor Is All We Know by Rancid
Octave Chords: Savior by Rise Against
Palm muting: Fuck Authority by Pennywise
Hammer ons: Anthem Pt. 2 by Blink-182
This is basically a how to play every rise against song
no skanky ska or skunk style? only thing i could ever teach sweep picking metal heads was how to play ska and natural harmonic hammer on bends. in return i was shown pinched harmonics.🍻
Ska is life
Even tho I know All these I still love it. Did you make the song at the end or was it a mix of riffs from other songs like the beginning?
Greetings from Florida. Had to subscribe once you started playing Tabloid Magazine. Great band. Was fortunate enough to see them in '99
I like this video coz there misfits helena. 👍
It should be down picking only tho! :)
This is my exact dream guitar
Honor is all we know 😂😂
LOVE THAT YOU DID THE LIVING END
4:03 Pull Off Technique: Millencolin - Bring You Home!
Blink 182
Love it
thats not punk rock ! just commercial music for posers
@@stayskeptic3923 it's not punk, it doesn't sound punk. It's pop rock.
I yelled the lyrics to pup dvp😂,have you listened to there new album yet?
PUP rulez!
Purple turtle, 4:50 that song is dvp by pup
Fletcher on the thumbnail, most intense punk guitarist. His tone is awesome, too.
A good example for hammer ons could’ve been part of this is the end by antiflag
or Dumpweed
@@nathaniellarson8 naw man dumpweed's all pull-offs
The blue Strat is pretty. Perfect for my surf instrumental band.
3:19 Helena By Misfits ❤❤❤
4:35 I was just listening to tabloid magazine didn’t expect to see it here lmao
This is the kind of video I’ve been looking for for a long time
Good touch my friend, very clear.
Yeah song names would be cool to go with the techniques...
I thought that too, though the ones I could figure out were:
Power Chords - The Clash - 'Safe European Home'
Downstrokes - Ramones - 'Rock 'N' Roll High School'
Palm Muting - Pennywise - 'Fuck Authority'
That's all I could figure out!
@@corinshearston2324 Boi that's Sheena is a Punk Rocker by The Ramones.
Corin Shearston hammer ons- blink 182 the anthem part 2
People try to write punk off and call it simple. It's got so much style though. Johnny Ramone said it best, rock n roll was made for punks.
Until they try and play blitzkrieg bop like Johnny with downstroke and get get halfway through because they are cramped
@@jnaz3thirty1 Exactly. You know haha.
"now put it all together" : every anime music
You included PUP ! very good !!!!!
You should've thrown in Doyle Wolfgang von Frankenstein's "pound the shit out of your guitar" technique just for the hell of it.
Thumbs up for the pup riff
I've got a quick question about palm muting. I can palm mute downstrokes just fine, but when I try to stroke up and down while palm muting it gets really choppy on the upstrokes and doesn't sound smooth. Am I not supposed to palm mute upstrokes? If my holding the pick too high up and creating to much space on the end of the pick so it gets caught up in the strings? Any advice would be greatly appreciated and no matter how many UA-cam videos I've seen, none of them ever go in depth on the mechanics of palm muting technique so I can figure out where I'm fucking up.
Keep playing and eventually it'll fall into place. Practice is the key
@@leoirigoyen_sb I've been playing for 17 years. That's the one bit that has never fallen into place for me.
You don't palm mute upstrokes I'm p sure
The only essential techniques from this list are power chords, downstrokes and maybe palm muting. That's all Johnny Ramone ever needed.
Johnny played full bar chords
@@jnaz3thirty1I stand corrected. But that still makes only 4 out of 11 of these techniques "essential".
I'm guessing those points where the sound cuts out are segments where you played something that sounded too much like something protected by "copyright", yeah?
Yup.
Great video and Sound.
Could someone say what songs is he playing? Shazam unfortunately didn't recognize any of them.
Yeah, thanks for the help, bros. Here's the list:
The Clash - Safe European Home
The Ramones - Sheena Is A Punk Rocker
Rancid - Honor Is All We Know
Rise Against - Savior
Pennywise - Fuck Authority
The Descendents - Smile
The Misfits - Helena
Blink-182 - Anthem Part 2
Millencolin - Bring Me Home
The Living End - Tabloid Magazine
PUP - DVP
A lot o’ Gatekeepers in the comments. “That ain’t Punk Rock” and all that shit. There’s a process to it. It’s just Raw and bare bones. Then I should just fucking slap my wiener on the fretboard if there are no rules. ‘Coz that’s Punk right? This dude who did an amazing job at putting together this video showed what Punk musicians do and did. Stop gatekeeping. This isn’t about the attitude or spirit of it. There’s an actual process to things. This is why the genre as a whole is on life support. People dictating what is or isn’t. Stfu. Play and enjoy the damn music. Good job, Bud.
Now do a tutorial video on all these techniques!
0:32 sheena is a punk rocker?
Dude i did like the instrumental song of yours at the end. Nice job
Sheena is a punk rocker is
Ha ha i feel stupid i a.ways thought that was screeching weasel
Athem part 2
Anyhem pt.2, NICE!!!
dont forget the major chord arpeggio!
my favourite by in too deep and anthem part 1 too
Wait do you mean in the bridge of In Too Deep?
@@Araknid42 the outro actually
Sum 41 is sorta acceptable, but Good Charlotte isn't punk lmao
hey dude you should be a school teacher, I would’ve killed for a teacher like you when I was first learning. Punk chords are fucking punk and punk is fun
dude!! Every time I saw the Pup sticker on the wall, I was hoping you to play a song from them. you made my day, awesome work as always
Tell me a group that does power cords, will appreciate that
War
Green day & sex pistols, the power chord kings
Surf Nazis Must Die
xD
and green day mostly
Ramones - sheena is the punk rocker
Thanks for sharing this. It's informative.
Beautiful guitar❤
You didn't mention the vibrato you used along with your tremolo picking.
10. Power cords
9.power chords
8.pc
7.pc
6.pc
5. Guess what
4.pc
3.coolness
2.Idk at this point
1.power chords
Didn't expect Helena in there
you're missing the invader pup on the strat ;)
Punk guitar: use whatever technique you need in order to play your song. That’s the guitar.
Now play it like your life depends on it.
My favorite punk guitarists:
Houndog Taylor, Wilco Johnson, Joe Strummer, Fred Smith, Denis Tek, Captain Sensible, Jerry Only (bass), Greg Ghinn, Bob Stinson, Dangerous Don Rich, Dave Downey, Dave Davis.... East Bay Ray, Serge Loobkoff, Brian Baker.... Keef.
Mick Ronson..... anyway, there are no punk techniques. There is attack, passion and heart.
Steve Earl gets it done.... the playing in this video is good but nothing about it makes my heart catch in my throat.
¡Downstrokes, yeahhh! 😃
You forgot the most important technique which is getting almost black-out drunk before going on stage
Looks like an old fender American mid 90s lake placid blue
It's very good to know other's tecniques but... creating your own is better.
Thanks for the vid dude 👍
We are a band from Brazil!
Amazing,brother
Second song is savior by rise against
Can you do this for bass too?
Great tone!
What tuning are you in?? awesome vid!!!
tremolo picking - DVP by pup
what was the song played for the Bends? It was really good!
There are only 3 essential punk guitar techniques:
Root, Fourth, Fifth :)
Bruh u forgot about rebelious stickers on the guitar
Great video, liked it.