Secrets to compose an unforgettable Rock/Metal solos

Stevie Ray Vaughan's shuffle tricks

A beginner to intermediate lesson about using delay and eq to obtain cool sounds and improve your guitar tone.

This lesson is for all those players who have a whammy bar but never knew what to do with it! Here is your chance to get in the world of whammy. Using whammy bar is not as easy as it looks. It always produces extra vibrations for all strings so you'll have to learn to control the noise and use whammy while still playing clean...

A collection of bluesy licks in the style of ZZ Top.

Time to look at the style of this extremely popular heavy metal guitarist. Conveniently enough, this lesson comes right after the Matserclass "Hot Blues" lesson - because Kirk Hammett's style is in fact heavily inspired by blues. This lesson will mainly deal with Kirk's solo style from the Metallica "Black Album" and onwards . Mr Hammett himself claims his goal with his new solo approach was to get "a bit bluesier" - and the result was an effective blend of metal, blues and wah-wah driven madness. This lesson will take you one step closer to playing like your guitar hero.

Shuffle based tune.

In this lesson lesson we will approach Steve's pattented tones and techniques by analysing "Vai slides", whammy-bar tricks, lydian mode and plain shred! The backing tracks should allow you to start practicing these techniques slowly - and gradually work your way to the top!

Tips to create atmosphere in your solos.