In today’s tutorial we will look at an exercise that actually performs double duty. This exercise will help improve your finger coordination as well as improve your string skipping.
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Today we will apply alternate picking, sweep picking and string skipping guitar techniques to a fun bluegrass piece from the 1800’s called “Jack Lamson’s Hornpipe”.
This piece offers quite a lot for guitar players. As I mentioned, the song is fun to play and works well at all tempos.
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Have you ever wanted to play those spine-tingling lines that sound super-smooth and oh-so fluid?
The key to playing those super-smooth, spine-tingling passages is to master hammer-ons and pull-offs.
Today we will look at how to perform hammer-ons and pull-offs and a great foundation hammer-on and pull-off exercise.
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Alternate picking is the most common and efficient way to play notes on individual strings. To get started with this guitar technique we will look at a basic and very effective alternate picking exercise.
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For the upcoming Labour Day Weekend I thought I would give you a fun alternate picking song to play.
It’s a piece by J. S. Bach.
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A great way to improve your alternate picking is to work on a song that focuses on this very important lead guitar technique. J. S. Bach’s Brandenburg Concerto Number 5, first movement, is a great alternate picking workout for the intermediate to advanced lead guitar player.
Continue readingWow, this is really cool. The Metal Den has come across an isolated guitar track of Crazy Train from Ozzy Osbourne’s album the Blizzard of Ozz featuring the late great Randy Rhoads. If you love to play this song or … Continue reading