Full Shred with Marty Friedman: Taking Licks You’ve Learned from Others and Making Them Your Own By Marty Friedman published 15 February 19 Marty Friedman dishes on how to carve out your own niche when you're creating improvised solos.
Hitting the Pocket: The Importance of Dynamics and Grooving When Soloing By Mike Stern published 4 February 19 Awareness of one’s rhythmic pacing is among the most important aspects of ensemble guitar playing.
Full Shred with Marty Friedman: Using String-Bending and Vibrato to Personalize a Melody By Marty Friedman published 25 January 19 Marty Friedman details a few of the string-bending and vibrato techniques he uses and their best musical applications.
Synthesizing Different Musical Styles in the Quest for Inspired Improvisation By Joe Satriani published 24 January 19 Satch dishes on how to go about blending different styles to improve your improvisation.
Using Triad Arpeggios to Imply More Complex Chord Qualities By John Petrucci published 22 January 19 Learn how you can utilize simple triadic shapes and patterns in order to imply more complex and varied chord qualities.
How to Incorporate Finger Slides and Legato Techniques into Intricate Phrases By Mark Holcomb published 18 January 19 Employing finger slides can inspire new and different melodic ideas.
Romancing the Fretboard: Chopin Arranged for Guitar By John Petrucci published 16 January 19 Try to nail John Petrucci's six-string arrangement of Chopin's Piano Concerto in A minor, Opus No. 2.
Joe Satriani's Guide to Building Chords from “Stacked” Fourths By Joe Satriani published 10 January 19 Satch demonstrates some interesting things you can do with stacked fourths.
John Petrucci Lesson: How to Play Movable Chords with Open Strings By John Petrucci published 4 January 19 Adding nothing but the open E and B strings to a major barre chord will drastically change its makeup and expand its harmonic function.
Using Quick Shifts and Long Slides to Add Interesting Movement to Licks By Mark Holcomb published 3 January 19 Achieve a sense of movement with single-note riffs that incorporate dramatic position shifts up and down the fretboard.
Full Shred with Marty Friedman: Relocating Familiar Melodic Ideas and Patterns Up and Down the Fretboard By Marty Friedman published 19 December 18 Take a lick, melodic shape or note sequence that you often use and move it to a different area of the fretboard.
Using Fast Down-Picking to Execute Powerful Riffs and Signature Parts By Dave Davidson published 18 December 18 Once you have this technique down, your thrash-metal rhythm-guitar chops should be up for just about anything.
A Fresh Batch of Technically Challenging Exercises to Keep Your Chops Fired Up By Metal Mike Chlasciak published 13 December 18 Some fresh guitar playing exercises/calisthenics that you can use to quickly and efficiently get your pick- and fret-hand chops back in shape.
Further Exploration of Playing Slide in Open G Tuning By Andy Aledort published 10 December 18 Investigating Muddy Waters and Johnny Winter-style bottleneck licks.
Building Left-Hand Strength Through Violin-Inspired Chromatic-Scale Workouts By John Petrucci published 5 December 18 Learn some tricky, but incredibly effective, warmup exercises from John Petrucci.
Build Up Your Chops with These Challenging, Molten-Hot Metal Riffs By Metal Mike Chlasciak published 28 November 18 Mastering these riffs will get your chops razor sharp and stronger than ever.
Full Shred with Marty Friedman: Finding Your Path to Musical Individuality By Marty Friedman published 26 November 18 In this lesson, Marty Friedman helps you build your speed and musical individuality.
Exploring Drop-D Tuning’s Unique Melodic Possibilities By Metal Mike Chlasciak published 16 November 18 Some cool things you can do with drop-D (with an emphasis on unusual melodic intervals).
Full Shred with Marty Friedman: Using Various Articulation Techniques to Expressively Interpret a Melody By Marty Friedman published 1 November 18 Learn how to interpret single-note melodies in a musical way, and develop a unique sound and musical “voice.”
Building Crushing Riffs from Complex Single-Note Patterns By Metal Mike Chlasciak published 26 October 18 Learn how to construct interesting, heavy and deceptively complex single-note riffs in this lesson.