If you like Guns & Roses, learn to play like Slash to improve your guitar playing. By utilizing his techniques, you’ll get insights into what great guitar playing is. This will allow you to put these musical concepts into your song ide...

In this lesson, we are going to learn guitar techniques of Van Halen to enhance your compositions. By expanding your technique repertoire, you can add flavor and dynamics to your guitar playing. Van Halen in the ’70s Van Halen originated in Pasade...

In today’s lesson, we will examine the 5 most popular effects pedals for playing guitar. Rock guitar is one of the most exciting guitar-playing styles. The reason for this is that you get to use guitar pedals. The Distortion pedal  The number one g...

In today’s lesson, we’re going to learn the guitar techniques used by Randy Rhoads. These concepts will help you not only come up with some interesting ideas you might not have thought of before but also give you a better understanding of your guita...

In this lesson, we will learn how to improve your strumming when playing the guitar. The most common way to play guitar chords is to strum them. This can be a bit difficult to learn for a lot of guitar players because it requires the development of ...

In this lesson, we will learn ear-training tips to improve your guitar playing. These practice methods will help you improve your ear so you can hear notes on your guitar. Recognize melody lines and chord voicings. You will develop one of the best s...

In this lesson, you are going to learn what is the most useful scale to play hot rockin' lead guitar solos. This knowledge will allow you to play a guitar solo with confidence because you will be playing notes that properly fit over the chord p...

In this lesson, you will learn the basics of music theory for beginners. It all starts with the musical alphabet when it comes to music theory and mapping out the guitar fretboard. This is also called the chromatic scale. These are the 12 notes from...

In this lesson, you are going to learn how to adjust the string height and intonation on your guitar. This is a very important thing to know because it will determine how your guitar plays and sounds. As well as how motivated you will be to pick it ...

Learn what chord embellishment theory is for better songwriting skills. Also, to build better guitar chords. This is what helps you develop a better understanding of how chords are constructed. It will also help you to become better at songwriting a...

In this lesson, we will learn how the blues scale can enhance your guitar solos. This scale is very common in guitar playing, besides the minor pentatonic. In this lesson, we will look at how it can change the mood of your compositions. Add the fla...

In this lesson, we will look at how to increase speed. If you want to increase your speed when playing guitar solos, you need to learn tremolo picking for faster playing ability. This will allow you to take your guitar playing to the next level. A ...

In this lesson, we are going to learn how guitar modes can easily enhance your guitar playing. They can help in both rhythm and lead guitar playing. As well as improve your knowledge of music theory. What are the modes? The modes are scales built o...

In this lesson, you are going to learn what hybrid picking is and how you can use it to enhance your guitar playing. This will add dimension and color variation to your overall creativity. Not to mention that you will increase your fretboa...

Harmony notes are a great way to express your ideas when playing guitar. In this lesson, you're going to learn how harmony notes in thirds can enhance your lead guitar playing. These can also be used in playing rhythm guitar. Remember, the more...