If you ever find yourself at a gig, having busted 5 strings and just left with your high E, well here's a little tune you can do.

Riffing workout in drop D focusing on muting and down picking.

This solo includes wide vibratos, arpeggios, string skips, staccato, legato and exotic scales. The song's in C#, I tune to D, so have fun with it!

Let's cover some important techniques like slides, legato, bending and the most important is right hand muting. I will also use this solo as an example of constructing solo moving horizontally over the fretboard and not up and down in boxes.

This is an instrumental song by Dream Theater that features the excellent guitar composition of John Petrucci in an intermediate level, perfect to make that leap to the next step in your playing.

Dream Theater is one of the most respected metal progressive bands. In this lesson David Wallimann presents a rhythm track inspired by John Petrucci's guitar work, for 7-string guitar.

This could happen if Dream Theater meets Led Zeppelin: A perfect symbiosis.

A beautiful Petrucci solo.

A progressive metal lesson, influenced by bands like Dream Theater and Symphony X.