In Speed Playing 5 we will be using all the techniques I've taught but there going to be slightly more advanced versions. Hopefully this lesson will expand your guitar licks and also inspire you to create your own excersises.

We will be looking at:

1. 4 note-per-string alternate picking.
2. Advanced sweep picking.
3. Wide stretching licks.

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There comes a time in every guitar player’s life where he or she comes to an invisible wall that they just cannot climb. This can be a very difficult time for any musician and is extremely frustrating. Overcoming writers block can be an uphill battle, and it can last months, or in more severe cases, years. If you are reading this, I know the b...

EQUIPMENT NEEDED-
- 1 Guitar (needs a full set of strings that must be in tune)
- A song to listen to (has to be one you haven't heard yet)
- Your brain (if you don't have one then you're probably not reading this)
(brain needs some imagination and common sense)

STEP 1

Listen to the song for a bit. Get to know how it sounds and feels. Try to predict...

Greetings Knights and Dames of shredding! Hands of Steel III will be a multi-part lesson. Its aim will be to help you learn scales in a way that will enable maximum fluency, and versatility. Unlike many lessons or books on scales, this lesson is designed to keep you out of the dreaded box that so many of us have become trapped in at one point or...

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In the last lesson, I introduced the concepts of the chromatic leading and passing tone as a way to add interest to single-note lines (and largely in the context of targeting chord tones over a progression). I left off with some simple examples of lines constructed using some chromaticism, with a basic chord progression in C major as the...

When you've been playing for some time, you pick up a lot of different things from people, publications, teachers, and these days the internet. I've had the fortune to be able to find and read many books on the subject. What I know is an amalgam of everything that's been presented to me.

Here is a basic 1 2 3 4 type pattern. These numbers refer...

Welcome back champ! I must say that I am impressed with your progress within the past few months; you are really blossoming before my eyes. *wipes tear* It’s my allergies damn it! Anyways, keep it up and you will be blazing up and down your axe in no time.

This lesson is going to focus on rhythm playing by utilizing small chords known as Triads....

I've just joined the UG community so hello to everyone! This is also my first lesson submission, and I felt compelled to do it after reading so many confusing and complicated lessons regarding modes and their applications.

Like most of you, I don't want to get a damned PhD on this topic and discuss super-impositions all night long, it would,...