This is one of those licks that I really dig because of the interesting rhythm in the first couple of notes, plus the pre-bend and release on beat 3... That said,

Of course, "American Band," by Grand Funk Railroad is a cool song... But it also happens to showcase a rhythmic issue that I see *all* the time, and I don't want

I guess you could think of this as kind of a "tapping 101" type of video.... There are *gobs* of things you can do with tapping, but these are a couple

While Billy Gibbons uses pinch (sometimes called artificial) harmonics (often called "squeals") in solos like La Grange... These things are a *staple* of hard rock and heavy guitar playing. You really

This is a lick I took from my 5 "Easy" Hard Rock Solo course (out of solo #2, in fact)... It's in the key of E Minor, but where we used

This is a lick I took from my 5 "Easy" Hard Rock Solo course (out of solo #1, in fact)... It's in the key of F#minor, using mostly just the F#

"Me & My Guitar" by Freddie King is one of my all time favorite tunes, I play it with my band often (pretty much every gig.) Surprisingly, I've never really sat

Recently I did a video where I talked about using a minor "2+3" pattern to get through your original 5 pentatonic boxes in a horizontal fashion... I likened it to a

Blues "comping," or blues rhythm playing, can seem somewhat overwhelming when you hear people talk about all kinds of different chord shapes... How are you supposed to remember them all? And when