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 free video guitar lesson we will learn some cool classical style fingerpicking techniques that can be applied to virtually all styles of music. The music example that I am teaching during this free video guitar lesson is a segment of a piece of music by Mauro Guiliani called “Grand Overture”. Mauro Guiliani is [...]

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 of our “Lick Of The Week” series, we will learn a cool guitar lick in the style of John Petrucci, the legendary guitarist of the prog-rock band Dream Theater. John Petrucci’s soloing style incorporates many different elements. One element he seems to always go back to is his love [...]

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 [...]