Playing lead guitar is the dream of almost anybody who hears a great guitar solo and picks up the guitar to learn how to play. Thankfully the Internet offers countless websites with lead guitar lessons free of charge. The lessons available range from scale and theory lessons to actual playing techniques and even note-for-note transcriptions

Guitar Shredding is a style of guitar playing that takes time and lots of practice to do well. Guitarists who shred use a variety of techniques that facilitate the ability to play fast. Two-handed tapping, sweep picking, string skipping and octave tapping are some of the methods that can dramatically increase a player’s ability to

Like alternate tunings, slide, whammy bars, and tremolo effect pedals, there is a time and a place for every guitar technique known to man. Shredding guitar is no different. Steve Vai recently conducted a Reddit Ask Me Anything forum, and one of the questions pertained to shredding. And Vai gave a very simple but powerful

Good day guitar land, Darrin Goodman here with another mini guitar lesson for you. Today I want to talk about how to get started playing lead guitar licks. Before we get started there are a couple of things that you need to know in order to get going. First is the pentatonic scale, which is

What’s up my fellow guitar comrades, Darrin Goodman here from GuitarControl.com with another little guitar lesson for you. Today I want to talk about pentatonic guitar scales. A Pentatonic Scale is a musical scale with five notes per octave and is very common and found all over the world. The pentatonic scale is a staple