Welcome to the world of Ska Guitar! Ska is a style of music that can be described as “Upbeat Reggae.” It has influenced classic rock bands like The Clash, as well as more modern bands like No Doubt. Here we’ll look at a rhythm guitar technique that describes the basics of Ska. This is the […]
In this lesson we break down Keith Richards (From The Rolling Stones) rhythm guitar playing. We look at how riffs and voicings originally played in an open tuning can be played in a standard tuning and adapted to any given chord progression. This lesson is part of a series that includes profiles of Tony Iommi, […]
This lesson teaches you how to play rhythm guitar in a style similar to James Hetfield of Metallica. Hetfield’s style incorporates a lot of downstroke picking, palm mutes, simple chord voices and single note riffs. The chords used here are simple “power chords” that you might hear in a lot of songs. What makes them […]
This is a lesson about advanced improvisation concepts on blues. It shows how you can play 3 different scales on any 12 bar or other blues. The blues pattern I use here has the following chord progression: D / D / D / D G / G / D / D A / G / […]
This four-step fingerpicking pattern is a powerful building block for fingerstyle guitar. For this pattern, play the sixth string (Low E) with a downward pluck of your thumb. Next, pluck upwards on the first string (high E string) with your middle finger. Next, pluck downwards on the third string (G string) with your thumb. Lastly, […]
Guitar Tricks instructor Prashant Aswani takes you through some of the elements of style that make AC/DC one of the most popular bands in rock. In this lesson we’re going to take a look at a standard pentatonic lick in the style of Angus Young. This one is in A minor, and features the kind […]