Covering topics ranging from moving chord shapes to hammer ons to right hand strumming techniques, each lesson will help showcase a different aspect of Johnson's voice in the instrument.  It is hoped that students, whether a fan of Jack Johnson or not, will take away something from this tutorial to see how the acoustic guitar used primarily as a song-writing tool can serve to better any player's ...

Here you learn the essentials about Gary Moore’s playing style which made him so famous. This are basically high gain solos on blues, minor blues and balad type songs. Pay close attention to the lesson where I talk about the bending tricks.

In this tutorial we're going to break down all the key elements in the legendary guitar playing of Keith Richards of The Rolling Stones. His playing is inspired by everything from early rock'n roll and blues to country and gospel music, and in this tutorial we'll break down some rockin' vocabulary in an open G-tuning, adapt it to standard tuning and finally play through a series of musical example...

Here you can learn the essentials of the early style of Carlos Santona which made him very famous. You learn which chords and scales are used, the way he is making his phrasing which gives his style this very personal touch.

Rice tackles it all: lead, rhythm, single note lines, chords and intense rhythmic variation. This series of lesson will take a look at how Rice approaches these concepts and put them all together in a solo that exploits all of the techniques.

This lesson contains mostly Michael Bloomfield style licks; with a sprinkling of Albert King and Roy Buchanan style licks.

This one can be a little confusing at first but fits in beautifully with the first 4 bars of a 12 bar. The riff ends neatly on the D for the 5 bar of the 12 bar. I haven�t added hammer-ons or pull-offs to the tab because depending on what context you play you could play every note with a pick or use more of a legato style. This could be used in a straight or swing jazz/blues.

Here's a riff from Stevie Ray Vaughan that I learned about six weeks ago. I didn't think much of the riff at the time, but I play it every time I pick up the guitar these days. It is just the basic pentatonic scale with an extra grace note on the 11th fret. Give it some time to grow on you.

Carl Perkins can be considered the father of Rockabilly and maybe even Rock and Roll itself. He has influenced generations of artists including Scotty Moore, John Fogerty, Eric Clapton, Paul McCartney, Albert Lee, and Brian Setzer. This Rockabilly finger picking riff is an example of a style that would launch the early Rock and Roll craze in the 50's. The riff is in the key of A on the 5th...