In this latest “Lick Of The Week” video guitar lesson, you will learn a lick in the style of Yngwie Malmsteen. Yngwie uses Diminished licks all throughout his solos and it is licks like this one that are his signature. Keep in mind that you don’t have to play it as fast as Yngwie to [...]

This lesson focuses on the sweep picking style of the great Yngwie Malmsteen.  His playing is known the world over for it’s incredibly fast scale runs and sweep picked arpeggios. He completely changed the face of rock guitar when he came onto the music scene in the early 80′s. In this lesson we will focus [...]

In this lesson we will focus on learning the theory behind economy picking as well as practice a few exercises to develop it. Economy picking is basically the combination of alternate and sweep picking. It produces a smoother sound than straight alternate picking and requires far less effort in the picking hand. If you have [...]

In this lesson we will take the patterns that we learned in the previous one string tapping lesson and apply it to a little etude. An etude is generally a piece of music created that allows you to work on a specific technique. So in this case that technique is tapping on one string using [...]

This lesson is the first concentrating on a particular player’s style. I plan on doing many style lessons in the future and would love to hear from you what player you would like profiled. We will start here today with Eric Johnson, who is one of my all-time favorite guitarist’s. He is perhaps best known [...]