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 [...]

I have just added the latest note-for-note song lesson to the Song Lessons page with Joe Satriani’s “Tears In The Rain”. This is a beautiful piece of instrumental acoustic music (even though I teach it on electric ). It has a simple finger-picking pattern than can also be flat-picked, and some very nice chord changes [...]