In Deep

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

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.

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.

Jimmy was often quoted as saying his true passion was to create a combination of “light and shade.”

Learn some cool approaches to improvising over an Emaj7-Bm7 chord progression.

One of the most challenging aspects of learning slide guitar is developing a consistently pleasing vibrato.

An in-depth examination of Gary Moore’s stunning, immediately identifiable guitar style.

When it comes to spontaneous, improvised phrasing, there is perhaps no better blues-rock guitarist than Eric Clapton.

Learning slide guitar in standard tuning allows you to focus on fret-hand touch and pick-hand articulation without having to re-learn the fretboard and chord forms in an alternate tuning.

Examine the envelope-pushing sounds of some of the essential prog-rock bands of the Sixties/early Seventies era.