In this free video guitar lesson we will take a look at Eric Johnson’s exciting use of pedal tones in his solo playing. Eric Johnson usually employs hybrid picking to accocmplish a fast fluid pedal tone sound that fluently transitions between many different strings. The hybrid picking pattern that he uses is actually quite simple [...]

In this free video guitar lesson we will take a look at how to use basic pentatonic scale shapes to create modal sounds. For this lesson we will concentrate on playing the Lydian mode while using only the 5 basic pentatonic scale shapes. The beauty in this kind of study is that you can play [...]

Hybrid Picking With Slurs Video Guitar Lesson In this video guitar lesson we will continue our “Lick Of The Week” series of guitar lessons with a cool hybrid picking lick that contains repetitive slurs. This kind of guitar lick is pretty easy to understand and should be relatively easy to get up to a fast [...]

In this video guitar lesson you will learn how to play guitar volume swells that create a violin type sound. This technique has been used by many players of all styles of guitar so you should easily be able to incorporate it into your playing. Famous players using this technique include Steve Morse, Jimmy Page, [...]

In this free video guitar lesson we will learn some cool classical style fingerpicking techniques that can be applied to virtually all styles of music. The music example that I am teaching during this free video guitar lesson is a segment of a piece of music by Mauro Guiliani called “Grand Overture”. Mauro Guiliani is [...]