This “Lick Of The Week” guitar lesson from GuitarLessons365.com shows how to play a pentatonic sequence in the style of the great Randy Rhoads. Randy Rhoads constantly incorporated fast pentatonic sequences into his solos to create a very dramatic effect. He also played both legato and with straight alternate picking so we will cover both [...]

This lesson is a continuation of our “Lick Of The Week” series at GuitarLessons365.com . Within this lesson you will learn some cool ways to combine economy picking with pentatonics to create fast and smooth guitar parts in the style of Eric Johnson and Joe Bonamassa. They don’t necessarily finger their pentatonic runs like this [...]

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 installment of the “Lick Of The Week” video guitar lesson series, we will take a look at a really cool and fun tapping lick in the style of Kirk Hammett and Steve Vai. Kirk Hammett’s solo in “One” by Metallica uses this kind of tapping lick to build a lot of tension and [...]

In this video guitar lesson I will show you a nice little etude that you can play that will drastically improve your ability to cross strings while alternate picking. This video should be watched by every level of guitar player because even if you are new to this technique, you can still play through it [...]