The Importance of Rests, and How to Use Fret-Hand Muting Effectively By Matt Blake After working through these exercises, you should find that your control of fret-hand muting feels more secure and natural.
Big Strokes: A Beginner's Guide to Sweep Picking By Charlie Griffiths Practicing each of theses exercises with a metronome for just two minutes every day will improve your coordination and sweep picking technique immensely.
Guitar 101: Heavy Metal Hybrid Picking By Greg Harrison Hybrid picking can be smartly employed as a shredder’s “secret weapon.”
VH1 Save the Music: How to Change Chords Smoothly and Explore the World Beyond the Third Fret By Rich Giannotti
VH1 Save the Music: How to Break Away from the Open Position and Discover New Chords Higher Up the Neck By David Haiman
VH1 Save the Music: An Effective Strategy for Teaching Young Beginners the Joy of Playing Guitar By Ted Meyers
Guitar 101: Mastering Rhythm and Syncopation, Part 2 — 16th Notes, Rests and Dotted Rhythms By Jimmy Brown
Guitar 101: Mastering Rhythm and Syncopation, Part 1 — Whole, Half, Quarter and Eighth Notes By Jimmy Brown
Guitar 101 - Mastering Rhythm & Syncopation, Part 4: More Fun with Triplets and Hemiola By Jimmy Brown In this lesson I'm going to show you more slick hemiola tricks that will help expand your phrasing vocabulary.
Guitar 101 - Mastering Rhythm & Syncopation, Part 3: Triplets and Hemiola By Jimmy Brown As promised at the end of our last lesson, we're now going to learn how to count, read and play triplets.
