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 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 installment of our Jazz Guitar University lesson series, we begin our look at chord progressions common in jazz music. The ii-V-I chord progression is the foundation of jazz music. As soon as you have a mastery of this progression in it’s basic form throughout all keys, you will be ready to really tackle [...]

In this next video guitar lesson, we continue our thorough look at hybrid picking patterns by beginning to incorporate the picking hand pinky into our patterns. This may seem quite awkward at first, but eventually it will open up a whole new world of hybrid picking possibilities for you on the guitar. Pay close attention [...]