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The 20 Best Rock Guitar Intros of All Time — Watch

By November 27, 2015 | Best Intro Music Black Sabbath Category_Tips & Guides Category_Videos>Guitars Deep Purple Guns N' Roses Jimi Hendrix Led Ze Metallica Rage Against the Machine

Let’s face it: one of the most important parts of a song is its intro. A memorable intro can bring lighters out of pockets, prompt roars of recognition from a crowd and cause freeway drivers to reach for the volume knob. A great intro is also the first thing guitarists...

Video: The incredible skill of hand making a guitar out of wood

By October 20, 2015 | Category_Tips & Guides>Musicians Arena Category_Videos>Guitars

Eitan's Bartel absolute love for the instrument he makes, the perfect measurements needed to craft one of his guitars, the unbelievable skill and precision required in each step, the shots of woodworking, the imagination of smell. It goes on. Check out Acoustic Guitars at BAJAAO.com Handcrafted from Alteroy on Vimeo....

Diatonic Exercise No. 3 With George Salas

By July 21, 2015 | Category_Videos>Guitars Guitar Lessons

Hey guys, this exercise involves 9ths up and down the fretboard using the lower strings. I hope you enjoy and please rate and comment! Tips: Memorize your three shapes first. Trwy and incorporate these into your on compositions! The only different shapes (in a diatonic major key) will be your...

Modes For Rock And Metal Guitar Riffs Lessons

By July 21, 2015 | Category_Videos>Guitars Guitar Lessons

Modes are one of the most important harmonic and melodic ideas used by guitar players and we need to study them so we have a solid handle on how we can use them to the best of our ability. In certain styles of music, (such as rock and metal), modes...

2 String Sweeps With Descending Shred Lick

By July 15, 2015 | Category_Videos>Guitars Guitar Lessons

I was mucking around with some 2 string arpeggios and just messing with your standard 1, 3, 5 triad over 3 octaves and decided to add a descending run. I put a few different arpeggios together based on a chord progression in E minor with a cheeky moment or harmonic...

Lick Wars - Episode 1 - The 'Bend Face Rocker' Lick [Lessons]

By July 14, 2015 | Category_Videos>Guitars Guitar Lessons

This is a great lick to learn! It has a pure '70s rock ballad vibe in it. Expression is the key here. Pay attention to vibratos, bends and rhythm as well. Also be careful with the ''pre-bends'' here. In a pre-bend, you bend the string before you pick it. If...

From Scales To Licks

By July 10, 2015 | Category_Videos>Guitars Guitar Lessons

Most of the guitar books, Internet guitar lessons and guitar teachers show the fret-board's scale patterns in tight fingerboard position layouts (approx. 4-5 frets horizontally). And, while some guitar licks are played from within those closely grouped scale patterns, most are not. If a practicing guitarist were to begin spending...

Learn Lead Guitar Builder

By July 09, 2015 | Category_Videos>Guitars

Hey guys, here's a lesson on some scale shapes on the top 3 strings that could further enhance your picking, speed, endurance and overall knowledge of the fretboard. Enjoy! Quick tips: I like playing with a distortion setting with some reverb. It sounds cool so it keeps me going! The...

An Idiot's Guide To Overcoming The Physical Limitations Of Chording

By July 09, 2015 | Category_Tips & Guides>Guitars Category_Videos>Guitars

The eleven chord is a strange beast all to its own. It is one of the easiest chords to play, but also one of the hardest to wrap your head around. The essence of the 11 chord is this: the root of the chord, is not always the root note....

Developing Legato - Part 4

By July 08, 2015 | Category_Videos>Guitars

Hello! In this lesson of Developing Legato, I will play through exercises that involve hammer-ons and pull-offs used together. While these exercises are not musical, they are focused to help you build strength so that when you use these shapes in a musical context, it will be much easier for...

Learn Operation Shred Guitar IV: Strings Attached

By July 07, 2015 | Category_Videos>Guitars Guitar Lessons

Hello all, and welcome to Operation Shred Guitar IV: Strings Attached. My name is Jake Popowski. Since you clicked on this lesson, I'm assuming you are interested in learning some more of the magical tricks of shred guitar, and that's exactly what you will do! Now sit back, cut off...

Is It Ever Too Late To Learn Guitar?

By July 07, 2015 | Category_Videos>Guitars Guitar Lessons

Hey, guys! Today's lesson is actually a request. A handful of people who have been especially helped by my Musician Psychology series asked me to answer the question of whether it's ever too late to start on an instrument, and if you can ever truly "catch up" to someone who's...