Many years of playing styles from Bluegrass to Heavy Metal have shaped this style of guitar. I utilize this stuff everyday on sessions, and rip this stuff up on live gigs. It will enable you to fly by the seat of your pants in any genre, Blues, Country, Rock etc... but with a flair and flow, that many flat pickers will marvel at. The most important aspect of this tutorial, is learning to use you...

This is a continuation of my other tutorial - Pentatonic and Blues Shredding - and it contains a few more cool licks that sound really good when taken up to light speed. I show you how to shred the blues scale to pieces.

The lead from this lesson was actually used at the beginning of a song called "Bye" on PhaseIV Chronicles by Schmange.

This tutorial was inspired by several users that wanted to know where my ideas for solos come from. What combinations work well together, and what techniques to use.

Tremolo can be a significant addition to your arsenal if learned correctly. These excercises start with the very basics and then move into the extreme. If you are an advanced player, you still need to do the basics everyday to get the full results. Good luck!

This would be a good ending for a solo in the key of G, or it would be a good intro if you're doing a turn around. There are a lot of classic country songs that have a 1, 5, 1 turn around for an intro. This can also be used in today's country, but probably not as an intro. The bends in this are prebent, this means the string is actually bent before you play it. After playing the string, then yo...

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.

Sounds lick a mosquito getting ready to bite you! This is a fun lick I used in a song on my Telethon album to follow Roger Fishers surreal solo. It's an ear bender for sure.

I use this lick quite a bit in some of the old country stuff I play, and I'm still finding new ways to do it. This is one variation of something I picked up from Roy Nichols, Merle Haggard's guitar player. I use my index finger to do the slide, and then on to the bends. For the first one you bend the string after you hit the note, the second one is prebent. This means you play the note, after you ...

This is a pretty cool set of riffs, this one has a little bit of everything in it. It starts with a slide in the 9th fret on the third (g) string, and goes into a bend in the 12th fret on the second (b) string, don't forget to pull off to the 10th fret on the second string, then there's a double stop bend and release on the second string in the 8th fret. You hit the first (e) string, and the secon...