Learn The Star Spangled Banner On Guitar

The Star Spangled Banner is the national anthem of the USA. Tons of famous guitarists such as Jimmy Hendrix and Joe Satriani had performed this song live. You can learn to play this song on the guitar too! Jam to the rock version of this song with your guitar distortion tuned up.

Jamplay has kindly offered this video guitar lesson to you guys FREE and David Mackenzie is the guitar instructor as he takes you through a step by step guitar lesson in learning the song.

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

Note please: This is an advanced lesson as there are many guitar techniques involved. So if you are still new, you might want to try a song that's easier.

Points to take note of when learning to play The Star Sprangled Banner on Guitar

1 - Play around with the whammy bar to create different effects and tones to enhance your creativity.

2 - The use of hammer-ons and pull-offs requires a certain level of strength and dexterity on your fingers. Here is an exercises that can help you warm up your fingers and build muscle memory.

3 - The Star Sprangled Banner is the national anthem and is often played with a proud and marching band kind of feel to it. Of course, you can throw in your own vibrato to highlight some notes and to place emphasis on certain portions of the song.

4 - Showcase your guitar techniques with some fast finger tapping to build up climax in the song and complete the song in an explosive outro.

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