By the end of this tutorial you should be able to play a rock rhythm riff using power chords rooted on the 5th string (the A string).

By the end of this tutorial you should be able to play a rock rhythm riff using barre chords rooted on the 5th string (the A string).

By the end of this tutorial you should be able to play a simple rock riff using the palm muting technique.

In this tutorial you'll find some examples of melodic metal soloing played over simple metal/rock progressions to give you ideas for your own solo compositions!

This tutorial includes exercises focusing on different note durations. I will add practice solos from time to time to help you apply these exercises in a practical way.

This is a descending pattern in the style of Yngwie Malmsteen. There's two spots to watch out for. First one is the shifting slide on the 2nd string. Slide from the 10th fret to the 9th with your index finger. The second spot that can cause your trouble at first is when you get to the 3rd string. It only has two notes on that string. This lick, as simple as it may look, is actually a very...

This is a good finger exercise, only one per fret now.

I ALWAYS show this lick to my live students... It's usually one of the first exercises I make them learn. This is bluegrass 101, flat pickin licks ELECTRIFIED!

Here's a lesson showing my process when writing riffs. I concentrate on one hand at a time, starting with finding a good solid rhythm pattern with my right hand. Then, I add some basic chords to the create a first riffs. Once I have something good going on, I'll try a bunch of different things, this is where the fun comes in. I'll add fill-ins, palm muting, new chords maybe a silence or two to ...

This lesson is all about getting your right hand used to doing something other than just strumming.The main object of these excercises is to get your right hand thumb to habitually play the bottom note of any chord.By bottom note I mean root note which could be found on any of the bottom three strings depending on the chord - e.g. the root of open D is the 4th string open - the root of open Em is ...