Today we´ll have a tutorial on how to make a riff with the great heavy metal and hard rock resource, the pedal note.

Using a melody line as a reference point in building licks!

Demonstrates how to mimic pedal steel guitar technique on regular guitar

Put your heart in your playing with this short but intense study of dynamics, whammy bar and chordal control.

This lesson will help you develop your rhythm skills and help you learn how to play on, ahead and behind the beat.

Improve your use of octaves, fast tremolo rhythm patterns, and pedal note rhythms. You will also learn how to harmonize riffs in thirds. This can really give the song new dimensions.

In this neo-classical sounding piece you will find mixture of 8th notes, 8th triplets, 16th notes and 16th triplets changing in every bar. Useful for escaping from one rhythm pattern to another.

Incorporating pedal steel guitar licks in a country solo

This time it's more in the the style of Melodic Death Metal, and it is influenced by bands like In Flames and Soilwork. It uses only downstroke picking, alternate picking, arpeggios and Pedal note rhythms.