Joel Hoekstra

Learn what adding the ninth can do for your arpeggio-based lines.

Skipping certain scale steps can lead to more engaging, less predictable ascending runs.

Learn some creative, appealing ways to utilize diatonic thirds.

A variety of ways to fortify and improve one’s string bending technique.

In this brand-new Joel Hoekstra lesson, take a look at rhythm guitar and the incorporation and understanding of suspended chords.

Joel Hoekstra demonstrates 15 different ways to add “color” your notes and improve your riffs.

Learn how to take a fretboard shape for a given note sequence and “octave mirror” it by “previewing” each note an octave higher.

Learn the technically and melodically rewarding three-notes-per-string approach to playing pentatonics in this lesson.

There's a new DVD available at the Guitar World Online Store:Hard Rock Lead Guitar Master Class with Joel Hoekstra.