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 [...]

In this video guitar lesson installment of the “Lick Of The Week” series at GuitarLessons365.com, we will take a look at a cool hybrid picking lick that uses hammer-ons, pull-offs, alternate picking as well as hybrid picking to create a fast and exciting bluesy sound lick. Be sure to download the TAB PDF in order [...]

This lesson demonstrates a cool technique used by Steve Vai, Joe Satriani and others. It involves the bending of a tapped note. In the video I will demonstrate how they do it without having to actually bend the note that you are tapping with your right hand. It makes the technique far more controlled and [...]

This free video guitar lesson demonstrates an interesting technique that you can use to spice up your guitar solos. It incorporates slides, and large interval skips to create an unorthodox yet still very musical sound. This technique can be heard in the playing style of Guthrie Govan among many others. It helps to give your [...]