How to Solo Like Angus Young, Jimmy Page and Tony Iommi By Andy Aledort An in-depth study of the playing styles of three legends of hard-rock guitar.
Creating Riffs from Arpeggios, and the Intro and Verses to “Priestess” By Mark Holcomb Walk the line between playing only single notes while also outlining “wide” chord voicings via the use of arpeggios.
A Guide to Basic Jazz-Blues Changes By Jimmy Brown Presenting a more musically sophisticated variation on the standard 12-bar blues.
Adding the Major Third to Minor Pentatonic and Blues Scale Phrases By Andy Aledort Bolster your solos through melodic experimentation and contouring.
How to Create Guitar Solos That Convey Melodic Continuity By Andy Aledort Learn how to establish a melodic phrase and then build upon it to develop a solo that conveys a sense of melodic continuity.
How to Use Your Whammy Bar Within a Riff By Dave Davidson Use your whammy bar to “color” chord patterns and give single-note lines different and unusual textures.
Using a Pedal Tone to Forge Fast, Keyboard-like Phrases By Joel Hoekstra How to use a signature element in baroque classical music to great effect in your own playing.
Using Odd-Numbered Intervals to Create Interesting Licks By Joel Hoekstra Being aware of the intervallic relationships between notes is useful in many different ways.
Flatpicking “The Irish Washerwoman” at an Accelerating Tempo By Jimmy Brown And now, something less serious than Beethoven.
Further Exploration of Playing Slide in Open G Tuning By Andy Aledort Investigating Muddy Waters and Johnny Winter-style bottleneck licks.
Examining Jimi Hendrix's Rhythm-Guitar Genius By Andy Aledort Examine Hendrix's genius within the realm of rhythm guitar.
Tips on Precision String Bending By Joel Hoekstra A variety of ways to fortify and improve one’s string bending technique.
Using Sweep Picking and Tapping to Outline a Chord Progression By Michael Angelo Batio How to use arpeggio sweeps, with and without taps, to melodically outline a chord progression.
An Introduction to Effective Use of Melody By Steve Stine Learn how to effectively incorporate melody into a solo.
Double Strummed Octaves, and My Solo in “The Price Is Wrong” By Mark Holcomb Learn more about double strummed octaves in this lesson from Periphery's Mark Holcomb.
The Blissful-Sounding Major Add-2 Arpeggio By Jimmy Brown An introduction to minor add2’s blissful, optimistic sibling, the major add-2 arpeggio.
A Tribute to the Influential Style of Mountain Guitarist Leslie West By Andy Aledort Take a look at Leslie West's heavy, dense, hugely influential guitar work in this lesson.
10 Guitar Sight Reading Tips By Matt Wong 10 tips that will put any guitarist on the path to becoming a competent sight reader.
“Mirroring” Fretboard Shapes 12 Frets Higher with Taps By Joel Hoekstra Learn how to take a fretboard shape for a given note sequence and “octave mirror” it by “previewing” each note an octave higher.
