Playing without rhythm is pointless. This lesson should help you phrase in style.

Beginner friendly Progressive Acoustic Rock using only two right hand fingers - thumb and index

Lesson on adding a walking bass line feel to blues rhythm guitar.

This technique is used by bass players like Victor Wooten but also guitar players can make use of it.

Technique exercise. Will allow you to emphasize the thumb melody, whereas the index creates rythmic and harmonic support.

Double thumb technique is made famous and brought to perfection by Victor Wooten, Les Claypool and many others! Its a very percussive technique mainly used in slap bass lines but you can incorporate it to any style of playing to get some cool cross rhythm possibilities or just plain speed.

Country groove strumming with bass line played with thumb

Time for the second Alternate Picking Lesson. In this lesson we will move down to 3rd and 4th strings to make it more interesting and also to practice your thumb as this excercise will force you to KEEP YOUR THUMB IN THE MIDDLE OF THE NECK - as well as to force you to MUTE THE STRINGS you don't play. So if you are ready for more shred - get in here!!

Finger placement is one of the greatest best kept secret of better guitar playing. Let's get to work!