Andy Aledort

Pull solo ideas from both sides of the happy/sad spectrum of tonality

It's one of the oldest tricks in the book, used by everyone from the Beatles to Neil Young and Pink Floyd, but playing around the major and minor tonalities can produce melodies that stick in the mind forever

Jimi Hendrix, Eric Clapton and Johnny Winter all used this technique to great effect – here's how you can make the most of it in your solos

This lesson will help take your soloing outside of muscle memory and learned playing habits

Learn the pentatonic solo approaches epitomized by Muddy Waters and adopted by every blues player since

Taking inspiration from Muddy Waters' Rollin' Stone, this lesson will teach you how to make your one guitar sound fuller

This improvisation on the Muddy Waters classic, Rollin’ Stone takes electric blues back to the source and plants an almighty hook in an E minor pentatonic lick

Inspired by the Allman Brothers classic Dreams, this lesson teaches you how to tell a story through lead guitar

The Ozzy Osbourne guitarist himself teaches technique and the Crazy Train solo

Get creative with a slide and an open tuning and you can add a vocal glissando quality to your playing

This hands-on and tabbed lesson offers a comprehensive primer in Eddie's signature lead style, as well as a brief history of two-hand tapping itself

Mastering precise bends on the B string can offer new ideas for pentatonic solos

Expand your understanding by incorporating chromaticism and a “scalar” approach

Unlock the fretboard for Santana-style improvisation with this lesson that takes the A Dorian mode and runs with it

A little bit of theory goes a long way and can add tension and intrigue to your lead playing