Advanced Guitar Lessons

Hey there Lads and Lasses and a very warm welcome to a special tutorial! Following on from my tutorial of the solo section of 'Andromeda' by Marco Sfogli, today's tutorial will be an in dep...

Hi everyone out there in Infinite Guitar land! In this tutorial we're going to learn a piece I wrote called "Oblivion". One thing I'd like to emphasize in the beginning is that I don't ever...

Hello fellow shredders! This lesson will focus on a fairly simple concept, in principal, but it serves as another tool to add to your toolbox of creativity. "Displacement" serves as a handy ...

In this lesson, we're going to learn a solo from a song I recently finished. The solo floats over a 7/8 time signature. If you aren't familiar with time signatures, you can check out a basic...

So the whole goal of this lesson is to focus on breaking some of the barriers we tend to put on ourselves when learning the five positions of the pentatonic scale. We'll navigate each and ev...

Here's the backing for you to get practicing with. Have fun! Visit Marco's website: www.marcosfogli.com Check out Marco's Album: There's Hope Get More Backing Tracks from Marco's Album

Right! On to the application of this legato approach. These preliminary exercises are designed to help you warm up and develop your legato and hybrid picking. Preliminary exercise no.1 is ...

OK, let's start with the intro. The first thing we will want to do is take note of the time signature and key, which I can tell you is 7/8 and F#minor. The first phrase begins on the fourt...

Hey everyone, and welcome to this song tutorial! This is a piece taken from a pretty heavy tune I wrote a while back. You can hear the full version on my profile page if you'd like. Make su...

Hi there guys and welcome to this tutorial on Legato and Hybrid picking that I've entitled Modern Legato Application/Approach. In this lesson I'm introducing you to 5 examples of phrases or...

Hey guys! Let's hunker-down with some arpeggio play in a not-so-conformative way. We're all familiar with those oh-so-traditional minor/major sweep arpeggio sequences, so let's fill in the g...

Hi guys! It's nearly Easter and winter is pretty much gone, so it's time for some funky sounds to prepare for the warmer weather! This tutorial is a song of mine from my upcoming album due...

Hey guys! This tutorial is focused on highlighting and "correcting" an issue with many of the common five and six string arpeggio sequences we see. We'll be applying a "no pick stroke missed...

So, now you have the theoretical knowledge down of which scales to play when you see the relevant chord symbols in a modal context. Your next step is to develop your fretboard knowledge so t...

Hey everyone! In this tutorial, we're going to learn how to play a melodic lead section from a song I'm writing. To me, this is one of those licks that once you learn, it's pretty fun to pla...

Hey guys! This month we're going to talk about basic soldering for electric guitar players. This will be a really simple crash course to get you into how to do easy things like repairing jac...

Hi there and welcome to part 2 of 'Playing over Changes'. This time we'll be dealing with melodic minor chords and their associated scale choices and also with motivic development over chang...

I've transcribed the first section of each improvisation leaving you some left to work out and transcribe yourself if you want to. Each transcription should give you an idea of the kind of p...

Here's the TABS for standard tuning. Note that some of the examples have altered fingerings to compensate for the B string in standard tuning. Pay attention to any fingerings written undern...

Hey everyone! This month, we're taking a look at triplets. Triplets (like any other tuplet) offer a very distinct rhythmic sound. The focus of this month's tutorial is taking our triplet run...

Hey folks! In this lesson, we're going to learn a short melodic solo taken from a song I wrote recently. Very fun to play. Very melodic. We have a lot of different techniques squeezed into ...

Hi guys! Today we're going to learn part of a song from my forthcoming debut album. The song is called Sleeper and we're going to start about 3 minutes into the track after the main improvi...

So let's take a simple Am scale passage, and apply the displacement concept to it to gain a clearer understanding. First, we'll play through the note sequence. Then, we'll shift the passage...

In this improvisation, I'm soloing over just two chords. Remember, it's very common to combine a major scale with the melodic minor scale built from it's 4th degree. The first chord is Eb M...