Andy Aledort

Learn these techniques to really make your guitar sing

Master these and make your guitar sing like the human voice

String bending and vibrato are vital expressive tools for playing blues-rock

An in-depth examination of Gary Moore’s piercing, deeply emotional guitar work

How to use one of the most musically expressive guitar skills to take your playing to new heights

Switching between these scales is an essential part of blues soloing

All of the greatest blues and rock guitarists - such as T-Bone Walker, B.B. King, Albert King, Eric Clapton and Jimi Hendrix - routinely incorporated this technique into their solos

Take a look at Leslie West's heavy, dense guitar work in this lesson

When soloing over dom7 chords, the inclusion or substitution of the major third in a minor pentatonic line always sounds good

Get your minor and major pentatonic licks in shape with this essential lesson

Learn the variety of picking techniques and tunings that Johnson used to craft his timeless, deeply emotional music

King's hard-driving intensity gave his guitar lines and solos a fiery spirit

Force yourself out of the same old, familiar position-based patterns and into new, uncharted territory

Applying this construct to any improvised solo will automatically force you away from playing familiar licks and standard melodic “shapes.”

Learn how to master one of the most distinctive sounds in blues and rock music.

Learn the unique lead guitar stylings of Peter Frampton in this comprehensive lesson.

It's super useful to familiarize oneself with modal scale positions and patterns and learn how to navigate them with the slide.

Master the most common two-note harmony interval.

Learn some of the tricks and stylings of Howlin' Wolf and Hubert Sumlin, one of the greatest blues guitar tandems of all time.

Chord forms can provide useful templates of fretboard shapes for improvising melodic lines.