This installment of the “Lick Of The Week” series at GuitarLessons365.com focuses on the pedal tone picking style of Yngwie Malmsteen. This exciting technique is influenced by the baroque music of J.S. Bach and creates a very flowing guitar sound. The technique required to play this lick is pretty straightforward, it just may take a [...]

In this free video guitar lesson we will take a look at a hybrid picking technique that creates the illusion of playing fast banjo rolls on the guitar. Most of the work to accomplish this sound belongs to the picking hand, however, there are some relativity large stretches that you will also have to get [...]

This free video guitar lesson from GuitarLessons365.com focuses on using octave harmonics while soloing. The technique of playing octave harmonics is a pretty easy one to master and can greatly enhance the note range of your solos. You can reach all those extremely high notes that are well beyond a traditional fretted guitar’s range. Mixing [...]

In this video guitar lesson we will take a look at the unique string skipping arpeggios style of the great Paul Gilbert. Paul Gilbert is undoubtedly one of the most popular guitar shredders of all time. He is known for his otherworldly technique and precision. He literally never seems to ever mess up. That is [...]

This lesson for GuitarLessons365.com focuses on controlling the unused strings while you are playing single string lines. Half the battle of playing guitar is keeping the unused strings quite during playing. The is especially important the more gain or distortion that you add to your signal, which is common during solos in just about every [...]