In this latest “Lick Of The Week” video guitar lesson, you will learn a lick in the style of Yngwie Malmsteen. Yngwie uses Diminished licks all throughout his solos and it is licks like this one that are his signature. Keep in mind that you don’t have to play it as fast as Yngwie to [...]

In this lesson we will focus on learning the theory behind economy picking as well as practice a few exercises to develop it. Economy picking is basically the combination of alternate and sweep picking. It produces a smoother sound than straight alternate picking and requires far less effort in the picking hand. If you have [...]

In this lesson we will take the patterns that we learned in the previous one string tapping lesson and apply it to a little etude. An etude is generally a piece of music created that allows you to work on a specific technique. So in this case that technique is tapping on one string using [...]

This lesson is the first concentrating on a particular player’s style. I plan on doing many style lessons in the future and would love to hear from you what player you would like profiled. We will start here today with Eric Johnson, who is one of my all-time favorite guitarist’s. He is perhaps best known [...]

This lesson concludes our study of closed position triad inversions. I hope that you can see the benefits of this type of study. If you have gone through all of the triad studies in this series you have certainly opened up a whole new avenue for your playing. You can use these triads as the [...]