Downstroke picking, note sliding, bends, vibrato, hammer-ons, pull-offs, legato, alternate picking.

Sometimes, playing over rich jazz chord progressions can be tricky, especially if your musical background does not include that style of music. This lesson should help the inexperienced jazz wannabe to sound good no matter what.

Powerful punk side of MCR.

Sometimes it can be difficult to start writing leads and improvising. This approach should help you get into lead guitar the easy way.

How to use the delay pedal in a neo-classical context to create the illusion of fast picking lines à la Nuno Bettencourt.

The most aggressive-sounding picking there is. NB not for the faint-hearted!

My favorite way of alternate picking: Using even note groupings and downward pickslanting.

A new lesson inspired by guitar player and composer John Frusciante. Let's analyse his nice clean soloing style that you can find in RHCP's albums like "Californication", "By the way" and "Stadium Arcadium".

Clapton style melodies and phrases