Learn Judas Priest's Green Manalishi on Guitar

Learn the song "Green Manalishi" by Fleetwood Mac (later played by Judas Priest). Get ready for fast and furious action on the electric guitar!
 

Jamplay has kindly offered this video guitar lesson to you guys FREE and Dennis Hodges is the guitar instructor as he takes you through a step by step guitar lesson in learning the song. It is not often that you get to learn how to play a song directly from the original artist himself.

This is the FULL version of the song. Nothing is held back in this guitar lesson.

Note please: This song is ONLY for advanced players who have mastered alternate picking and are comfortable doing riffs and solos at high speeds.

Points to take note of when learning to play Green Manalishi

1 - Learning to play the rhythm for this song can be fun. What is shown in the video above is that we start by removing any guitar effects in the song and play the song "clean". Many guitarists fail to realise this. Proper technique and guitar playing comes from practice.

Many times, I had seen new guitar players attempt to cover up their mistakes or inept guitar playing with effects. When you start off clean, you will realise any mistakes or inproper techniques used. This allows you to correct them immediately. Don't live in the disillusion that guitar effects should be used to make up for shortfalls in techniques.

2 - Playing power chords on the guitar can be done in several ways. For players who are looking for an alternate (and easier) fingering, read our lesson on power chords on guitar.

3 - Palm muting is always used in metal and rock music. You should experiment with applying varying pressure on the strings to get different chunky and tonal sounds. Use what works best for your ear in this case.

p.s. You might want to bookmark the easy guitar songs for beginners section regularly for updates on videos that help you learn playing the guitar.