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#1 Scale For Rock Guitar Lesson Hi there, this week we will be tackling the #1 scale for rock guitar solos.  You have heard it everywhere, from Led Zeppelin’s music, right up to that of John Mayer and beyond.  I am talking about the pentatonic scale which is ubiquitous with rock and roll guitar soloing[…]

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Slash’s ‘Breakdown’ Guitar Solo Lesson Welcome, today we tackle the ‘Breakdown’ guitar solo by Slash from Guns & Roses. Slash is a really interesting player, great feel and phrasing and he has some pretty decent chops too when he decides to tear it up. This solo is based primarily around the Dm blues scale with[…]

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5 Warmups Every Guitarist Should Practice! Today you are going to learn some warmups that I have seen in guitar magazines or on guitar lesson videos over the years, and a couple that I actually designed for myself to tackle my own weaknesses. The first warmup I saw in a guitar magazine from years ago,[…]

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Separate Ways Guitar Solo Lesson Hi everyone, thanks for joining me! Today we are learning “Separate Ways” by the band “Journey,” who are about to be inducted into the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame in 2017. Neal Schon, the band’s guitarist, is a bad mofo that can play with amazing melody, feel, and technical[…]

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Hybrid Picking For Guitar Noobs! Hey, long time no see everyone. This lesson is dedicated to hybrid picking. This technique involves using a pick and one or more fingers to pick the guitar. This technique can be used for chords, or lead guitar lines. The focus of this lesson is lead guitar, and I have[…]

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Hey again, here is the compliment lesson for anyone wondering what I was playing to introduce the last hybrid picking video titled “Hybrid Picking For Noobs. “This is a little etude I wrote called “Rooster Pickin’” I wrote this piece to give myself and now you, something fun to practice that would challenge. The video[…]

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