Mark covers the essential picking styles new guitarists need to learn (or at least be familiar with).
The Guitar Player's Resource
Mark covers the essential picking styles new guitarists need to learn (or at least be familiar with).
Mike shows you several ways to spice up your riffs, lines and solos with some chromatic passing tones.
A technique that allows you to play both the melody and accompaniment parts of a blues tune at the same time.
Mike teaches you scale sequences (in the Hanon style, adapted from piano) that are great for your dexterity and precision.
These exercises will help you to focus on string crossing with alternate picking, and also to help you develop left/right hand synchronization, speed and stamina.
Call-and-response practicing to enhance your phrasing and composing.
A number of short lick ideas designed to kick-start your technique.
More short lick ideas to kick-start your technique.
Nowhere to go with ascending licks but up? Dan McAvinchey confronts the problem and gives you several ideas you can use today. Don't just take the easy way out and start descending either.
Stop practicing with boring scales and start testing your fingers with melodic 'riffs' from Mozart, Bach, Beethoven, and more.
Stop strumming those simple barre chords, and embellish your chordal work with licks and phrases that blur the distiction between rhythm and lead guitar playing.
Break free of your limiting beliefs about pentatonic scales.
