Lessons

Prashant takes you a little further into his Whammy Bar techniques by adding left-handed muting to the mix.

In this lesson Finbar shows you how to add chromaticism to basic blues and Pentatonic scales to break " Out of the Box"

Learn a style of jazz soloing that's been around for decades. Octaves are key in this one and Stuart shows you the proper way to...

What's a riff? What makes a good riff? Prashant shows you.

Greg takes you into some odd time signatures used in PROG METAL. This lesson is played on a 9 string guitar but you can still...

Dave Reffett shows you how to play the song "I Remember You" by Skid Row. You'll use the G, Cadd9 and D chords for this...

What's a double-stop? Stuart shows you and gives great examples of how they're used in jazz and blues.

Gilby Clarke shares insight from his time with Guns N Roses and covers what he considers to be a lost art form...Rock Rhythm playing

Dave shows you how to play Randy Rhodes's famous guitar parts from the Ozzy song "Flying High Again."

Dave shows you how a classical violin exercise can help you improve guitar speed, dexterity and accuracy with both hands.

Dave shows you how he warms up before a gig. This is a great exercise for the left and right hand for any genre of...

Dave shows you some right hand metal guitar techniques to help you build speed.

A great legato exercise to help you learn precision playing.

In this lessons Bruce discusses using the pentatonic scale to get moving with soloing and how to add ATTITUDE to the notes

Stuart shows you another Slide Quick Lick in the style of ZZ Top's Billy Gibbons

Tony shows you some ideas you can incorporate using the delay effect and the magical-musical expressions you can create with it.

Mike shows you how to apply accents to your playing in order to highlight certain notes and rhythms, and demonstrates his original composition, "Freedom of...

Doug Aldrich covers rock guitar ideas using the pentatonic scale

Ben Woods covers the basics of the Flamenco technique "Picado" with examples and exercises

Greg covers some common DOMINANT Chord voicings used in Gypsy Jazz

Mike plays you an excerpt from John Dowland's "Frog Galliard" and teaches you how to get a balanced tone out of your classical guitar.

Gilby explains dynamics in songwriting using his song, “Be Yourself” as an example. He discusses muting, vibrato and more.

Ben runs through some Rasgueado Chord Progressions examples

Greg Harrison introduces his Gypsy Jazz Series by starting you out with some minor chord voicing ideas and exercises

Ben Woods start of hos flamenco/rock series with some basic Flamenco techniques. In this lesson he covers various Rasgueado techniques

Stu walks you through an very simple blue lick played with your slide using only one string

Learn how jazz chords can play an important role in your songwriting and soloing.

Learn how to use the entire fretboard while playing cool pentatonic licks in several octaves. Phil also teaches you about blue notes.

Learn some more common voicings and how to shift in and out of them. Plus, what exaclty is a diatonic harmony? Find out in this...

Learn less common ways of using a drone note to make a riff sound more interesting.

Open E is a common key in playing slide guitar. Stuart shows you a riff in open E that will make you sound like a...

Tony shows an interesting tapping lick along with a sweep like chromatic lick.

Learn to understand the building blocks of licks and solos by visualizing patterns and shapes and utilizing the movable scale patterns

Jude shows you a technique he calls "galloping harmonics" with your thumb and with a pick. And he shows you how to use a delay...

Justin Derrico "Manic" Full Song Transcription

Gilby talks about the importance of warming up and shows you what he does to warm up for a big show... and it's not just...

Phil teaches you how to play Van Halen's classic tapping solo, Eruption, without having to tap. Learning how to play licks in different ways allows...

This is a great warm-up exercise that is sure to make your fingers strong and keep them moving. It also helps with finger accuracy.

Sam show you an arrangement for Windy and Warm. Great acoustic fingerstyle piece.

Doug explains the note names and their respective positions on the guitar. He uses half and whole steps to find the next note.

Jude shows you how to subdivide the beat and add sixteenth note funk rhythms to your playing. HE also gives you advice on how to...

Phil shows you a cool lick that teaches you how to expand on your pentatonic scales, to keep them from sounding like exercises.

Doug teaches a simple single string song, "Seven Nation Army" by The White Stripes.

Doug teaches a simple single string song, "Sunshine of Your Love" by Cream.

Doug teaches a simple single string song, "Bad To The Bone" by George Throgood

Doug explains the different types of guitar picks and their applicable use.

Doug answers a frequently asked question, "what are frets?"

Doug teaches you the basics of holding the guitar and hand position.

Jude talks about how to inject some feeling into your funk playing and demonstrates some cool chord grips to spice up your playing, including slapping...

Jude shows you how to play sixteenth notes with a swing feel by playing triplets.

Mike shows how to do a two finger trill for acoustic guitar.

Mike teaches how to control the melody with different fingers.

Mike plays an excerpt from Bach's "Gavotte in E" and shows you how to use the free stroke.

Mike demonstrates another finger stretching exercise useful for any style.

Mike shows you an arpeggio study to help build your right hand arpeggio technique.

Mike teaches you a technique to play smoothly.

Mike shows you how to use different parts of your arm to practice shifting.

Mike shows you how to stretch your fingers that applies to any style.

Mike teaches you how to play the famous "Bourrée" from J.S. Bach's 1st suite for lute.

Jude shows you some licks using sixteenth notes as a rhythmic framework.

Jude shows you how to pop notes to imitate a technique used by funk bass players.

Jude shows you how to play slapped harmonics in a sextuplet, or 6 notes per beat, pattern. He breaks down a funky riff.

Phil shows you how to play his song, Kiss My Trouble Maker, and teaches you how down stroke picking and string choice can make your...

Learn a heavy, evil riff in E, using octaves, slides, and power chords.

Warming up is a key element to get the most out of your practice and playing. Greg shows you some great warm up exercises to...

Learn the names of all of the components that make up the acoustic guitar.

George Lynch teaches how to play the Dokken hit, "The Hunter."

George Lynch shows you another quick lick inspired by Jimi Hendrix.

Doug shows you some great solo ideas based on a diatonic scale.

In this lesson you will be adding yet another string to create a 5 string arpeggio pattern, combining it with the 3 string arpeggio.

What's an Open Tuning? Stuart explains how to use open tunings when playing slide guitar. He'll go over 0pen E, Open D and Open G.

Our friends at ESP Guitars show you how to adjust your guitar's truss rod if you have too much bow in your neck.

ESP Guitar's expert shows you how to re-string your guitar when it has a Gotoh tuners and Tunamatic bridge.

You'll learn to play your first chords and how to use them.

You'll learn the E, A and D minor chords Plus, learn the difference between major and minor chords and how to identify them by just...

You'll learn the basics of picking with your right hand utilizing a guitar pick.

Richie shows you how to play the main riff to The Winery Dogs song "I'm No Angel." It's a great song and he teaches some...

George shows you how to play the intro rhythm to Mr.Scary

Hot Blues Lick in E

Gus shows you a lick he "stole" from Paul Gilbert. This will get your right hand playing faster, no matter which genre of music you...

Gus shows you two great riffs you can get down and make your own. These are great ideas to include into your rock guitar solos.

Tony shows you one of his licks while using economy picking and his different approach to the lick

Tony shows one of his favorite quite sweep picking esque licks to spice up any lead.

Tony shows you some patterns to help increse speed and finger independence while "driving the neighbors crazy"

Tony shows you a great Chromatic Exercise with Alternate Picking

Tony discusses how he developed this lick, the techniques involved and how you can use it in your own playing.

Displacement Using Arpeggios Ascending Lick. Displacing the rhythmic notes.

Prashant Aaswani teaches you some smooth legato arpeggios for that liquid feel

Neil shows you a great hammer-on and pull of lick that utilizes the entire fretboard

Redd shows you some steel guitar style licks you can play on the guitar

Redd shows you an example of some Country turnarounds for Rhythm playing

Sam shows you one final example for Lighnin Hopkins style for playing,

Redd shows you some licks he "borrowed" from fiddle players.

Sam Swank shows you some Lightnin Hopkins Style Playing!

Greg talks about slide playing and shows examples of Delta slide playing.

Bugs starts you off with a great intervallic scale exercise, then shows you 7 sweet blues licks in A.

Bugs share a tip to making your intro to a lick or solo more melodic and soulful.

Bugs shares his lifetime insight as a blues musician.

Hot Blues Lick in D

Great lick to use in different keys

Dime Style Lick in Em

Cool lick with a major feel

Personal style lick in A

Long Gone From Kentucky

This technique is not just played in Country. Is is very common in Jazz, Blues, and Rock.

Classic BB Lick in C.

Texas Blues Shuffle Licks in E to add to your lick vocabulary

Continuing with Sweep Picking, Greg shows you a 4-string sweep, A Minor triad you can use in different positions on the neck.

Greg shows you a non-typical metal picking pattern, using eighths and sixteenth notes.

Greg shows you ideas on building melodic and rhythmic motifs from the minor pentatonic scale patterns.

Greg introduces a legato technique which uses "hammer-ons" and "pull-offs". Great for smoother sounding phrases and licks.

Sure there are several of the same notes on the fret board, but Greg shows how to use the same notes on different strings... and...

Greg continues with sweep picking technique and covers inverted arpeggio patterns. In other words rearranging the order of the notes.

Slide Quick Lick in the Style of Duane Allman

Doug goes over the concepts of building a solo on the fly using Pentatonic shapes and crafting licks to fit the song. Also covered is...

Gus shows you how his "common fingers" technique can help you move around to differnet chords, with less finger movement on your fretting hand. It...

Gus shows you some really cool chords, that you can move between quite easily, based on their common shapes.

Richie shows you how to play The Winery Dogs song, "Elevate."

The Winery Dogs Lead singer and guitarist, Richie Kotzen, shows you how to play the main riff in the song, "Not Hopeless." This also is...

What does it take to “build” a great song? What is the “bridge” of a song? Gilby explains and shows you how to turn that...

Gilby continues with his overview of "Cure Me or Kill Me"

Learn to play "Breathe" by Pink Floyd

Sam walks you through a basic blues progression

Jerry Don shows you a classic 2 note lick that utilizes bends to give it some flavor.

George shows you his use of his right hand slapping.

Damon shows you how to modify common chords to spark more creativity in your songwriting

Basic Scale System - CAGE Method

7 Important Strumming Patterns

Acoustic 101 - Barre Bar Chords

Cool Metal lick using hammer ons and pull offs

Lance shows you how to play these great shuffle licks in A

Learn to play the major scale and 5 different fingering patterns you can connect. Plus, easier voicings from the harmonized major scale.

Learn to build major triads in every key.

Another right hand picking pattern. This is an extension from the previous lessons that will get your right hand picking more fluently.

Learn the string names and numbers.

Learn the proper way to use a guitar pick.

Learn how to properly hold the acoustic guitar.

Bob shows you how to tighten your loose input jack

Damon shows you a few tricks to make chord changes easier

Damon shares his thoughts about the importance of good songwriting

Bob shows you the proper way to adjust your guitar truss rod

Bob shares some pro tips to keep your guitar clean, and looking sharp

What, and when to play in a group.

Learn how to play open harmonics

You will learn about the naming and numbering of the fingers on both hands to be able understand the finger placement notated in written examples.

Learn some basic jazz chords and the various voicings you can create