This installment of the “Lick Of The Week” series at GuitarLessons365.com focuses on the pedal tone picking style of Yngwie Malmsteen. This exciting technique is influenced by the baroque music of J.S. Bach and creates a very flowing guitar sound. The technique required to play this lick is pretty straightforward, it just may take a [...]

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 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 [...]