Lessons archive

October 2018

Filter

Year
Month

47 articles

October 31
- Double Strummed Octaves, and My Solo in “The Price Is Wrong”
- Three steps to shred: daily guitar practice techniques in about 15 minutes
October 30
- The Blissful-Sounding Major Add-2 Arpeggio
- Learn a Simple Arpeggio Trick
- Rut-Busters for Guitarists: Phrasing
October 29
- A Guide to Fretboard Tapping Using Multiple Fingers
- Secrets of Shred: An Introduction to Economy Picking
October 26
- Do Digital Effects and Tube Amps Get Along?
- Jazz Guitar Corner: Unorthodox 4th Chords for Jazz Guitar
- Building Crushing Riffs from Complex Single-Note Patterns
October 25
- Using Chromatic Passing Tones to Add Color to Your Solos
October 24
- Combining Sweep Picking, Legato Techniques and Tapping to Create Exciting Solos
October 23
- Expanding Diminished-Seven Arpeggio Shapes Across the Fretboard
- SongTown: Five Tips to Get Out of a Writing Rut and Spark New Ideas
- Five Iconic Rock Guitar Licks Every Player Should Know
- Yngwie Malmsteen Lesson: Cracking the Code, Season 2, Episode 1
October 19
- How to Visualize Melodic Shapes on the Fretboard
- The Secret Note That Makes the Minor Pentatonic Scale Better
- How to Prevent Note Fumbling and Improve Fretboard Control
- School of Shred: Paul Gilbert on the Art and Science of Playing Lead Guitar
October 18
- Three Ways to Create Unforgettable Guitar Parts
- Using Unusual 16th-Note Syncopations and Odd-Length Phrases
- 10 Guitar Sight Reading Tips
October 17
- Leveling Up Your Licks: Exploring Four-Note Patterns and Permutations
- How to Build Shredding Speed
October 16
- “Mirroring” Fretboard Shapes 12 Frets Higher with Taps
- Half-Whole Diminished Harmony for Jazz Guitar
October 15
- How to Use the Dark Sound of the Phrygian Mode’s “Flatted” Intervals
- Two-Hand Tapping Workout, Part 2: Diatonic Scales
- Ten Rules for Blues Soloing
October 12
- More Great Ways in Which Songwriters Have Used First-Inversion Chords
October 11
- A Pattern-Based Soloing Approach
- How to Play Stevie Ray Vaughan's "Pride and Joy" Shuffle
October 10
- Getting Your Chops in Tip-Top Shape
October 9
- Using Your Vibrato Bar Creatively and Tastefully
- Three Ways to Be a Truly Great Guitarist
October 5
- Learning to Speak Musically with Your Own Unique Accent
- What to Think About When Improvising a Guitar Solo
October 4
- How to Play Thrash Metal
October 3
- How to Harmonize Improvised Melodies Within the Structure of E Major Pentatonic
- How to Solo with Extended Jazz Guitar Arpeggios
- Learn the Solo in Born of Osiris' "Silence the Echo"
October 2
- 60-Second Songwriting: Songwriting Building Blocks—Top-Line Melodies
- Marty Friedman Lesson: How to Develop Melodic Ideas with Interesting Twists
- Diatonic Scale Workout: Increase Picking Strength and Produce Great-Sounding Sequences
October 1
- Getting Started with Proper Sweep Picking Technique
- Eric Johnson Lesson: Cracking the Code