Recent Video Guitar Lessons

You're waiting patiently for a parking spot. You see someone backing out. You then turn on your car's blinker to claim the spot. But just as you're about to pull in, an old lady driving a corvette speeds her way into your spo...

Most of the notes in this riff are played without palm muting, however at the end of bars 1 and 3 make sure to mind those palm-muted Low B notes. Make them solid and chunky so you hear a clear differentiation between the norm...

This section illustrates a cool contrast between a riff being played with tight palm-muted chunk and then the same riff being played with a more open feel. Bars 5 through 8 being the former. Bars 9 through 12 being the latter...

Welcome! In this lesson we're going to work on an exercise that utilizes a significant amount of percussive rhythm with our fret-hand. What is percussive rhythm on guitar? It basically involves the use of mutes, slaps and dea...

Hey guys! For this tutorial, I decided to break down a bunch of Megadeth-esque riffs in an attempt to unlock a few of the many techniques associated with this style of playing. From finger-twisting "spider chords", to thrash...

And we're off! With a blazing thrash beat and tons of intricate pick strokes - reminiscent of something from Megadeth's "Rust In Peace". The first six bars are very much the same sort of "fast picking call" with a "two-chord...

Like riff 1, this riff is again, very much centered around the low E string. Serving as a segue between the intro and the first verse, it offers more of an eerie-type "Youthansia" groove - with all the phrygian, harmonic mino...

Continuing with a similar vibe as the segway riff, the rhythm is broken up and we add "space" for Dave's snarls. Note: The last eighth note in bar 18 and the first in 19 are tied, and then followed by a series of low E pick ...

Let's clue up with a "Crypric Writing"-esque chorus. Again, with tons of room for a more melodic chorus as uniformly demonstrated on most Megadeth albums - we see groupings of four eighth notes in the second half off each bar...

Hey everyone! In this tutorial we'll be learning a portion of one of my songs called "The Lens of Clarity". It's a heavy yet very melodic piece with a bunch of atmosphere/synth stuff. I hope you enjoy it! This song was orig...

Alright, let's get going! In this first riff we're going to be playing around with the concept of polymeter. Polymeter represents multiple time signatures going on at the same time. In this first section, the drums are outli...

Here we have the chorus. In this part we'll basically just be strumming power chords using straight eighth notes. In the video you'll see me down-strumming every chord, however if you'd prefer alternating between downward an...

Here we have another instance where the palm mutes need to be clearly defined. Makes sure your technique is clean! At the end of bars 26 and 28 it gets a little tougher as you connect the riff sections. Take those parts slow...

This is definitely the most challenging part of the song. When I hear it I think it has a big Symphony X vibe. You'll be using a lot of legato here, including both hammer-ons and pull-offs. It might be tempting to cheat a li...

The notes in this riff are all sixteenth notes and palm-muted. When you listen to the riff, you can hear that the notes are in groupings of 3. If you count "One, two, three, One, two, three" where each count represents each ...

Meeeerrry Christmas from IG-Santa once again! Last year we had some knuckle busters in your IG stockings, this year I'll treat you to a bit of Christmas Thunder from Down Under! But, all kidding aside, this is a song tu...

Ok, so first out is the rhythm guitars! In AC/DC we have one of rock history's hardest working and most stable rhythm sections, I'm talking of course of Malcolm Young - Guitar, Phil Rudd - Drums and Cliff Williams - Bas...

Time for some classic Angus lead guitar! Now, if this was an all out AC/DC tune, we would of course have some killer vocals by the late great Bon Scott on top, but in this case, I've just provided you with the bare guit...

Around this time of year, we begin hearing tons and tons of the traditional songs which serve as landmarks for the season. If you're like myself, things tend to get old after about the 487th time hearing the same tune. In any...

We start with "Carol Of The Bells". Heavily based on the Trans-Siberian Orchestra metal arrangement of the song, here we feel the uplifting effects of some good ol' fashion classical composition. And again, the melodies ...

Up next, the only "fully original" section of the medley; an arpeggio sequence used as a compositional segway. Ay 180BPM, 8th notes should be well within our grasp. Some will find "slower" arpeggios more difficult than "fast...

...The basic melody-line from Walter Rollins' "Frosty The Snowman"! Be sure to, yet again, focus on phrasing nuances and vibrato; it's important when faced with situations where the melody is slower-paced and heavily carried...

Rudolph The Red-Nosed Reindeer. This is the segment where we totally sell-out and play one of the all-time most famous Christmas songs. Forced into a new meter, 4/4, this is yet another section which heavily revolves around ...

Hi guys! In this lesson we'll take a peek at two tapping sequences in the Emin pentatonic scale, incorporating open strings into the lines. This first example starts out just moving up the high E-string covering all five po...

In this example, we take a pretty common kind of pentatonic tapping sequence that you can find in solos of everyone from Nuno to Howe. I use this type of moving pentatonic shapes in my own soloing quite a lot. Here however, ...