Lead Guitar - Techniques for Creating Solos

This jam-packed set features over 70 lessons on four DVDs with iPod-ready video tabs for every lesson on the DVDs full band studio tracks to play over interviews behind-the-scenes video photos and more!Rusty Cooley was named one of the top 20 fastest shredders of all time and has been an influence to many guitarists Mark Tremonti and John Petrucci. Rusty teaches his unique fretboard visualisation through shapes patterns and years of modal knowledge. This DVD includes lessons from Fretboard Autopsy Level 1 and 2.Jeff Loomis shares his six and seven string Guitar secrets for creating the lead masterpieces that get him mentioned in the same breath asSatriani Gilbert and Malmsteen. This DVD includes lessons from Extreme Lead Guitar.Oli Herbert is a founding member and primary songwriter of the melodic metal band All That Remains. His lessons give aspiring guitarists insight into how to craft original songs and how to rock the house playing them on Lead Guitar. This DVD includes lessons from Heavy Leads Rhythms and Harmonies Level 1 and 2.John McCarthy has produced hundreds of instructional products and has coached many of today's most influential artists to appear in them. Alexi Laiho Gary Hoey Alex Skolnick Jeff Loomis Marc Rizzo Michael Paget Kiko Loureiro and many others have put their trust in John. In this DVD John explores a collection of lead Guitar techniques that will help expand your arsenal and create new ideas for your own blazing solos.This DVD includes John's Lead Guitar program.

Jimmy Hendrix Eddie Van Halen Kurt Cobain - all pioneers in the world of rock guitar creating individual yet highly influential styles seemingly effortlessly and crafting some of the best rock music ever written. But how did they get their sounds and what can you do to recreate them' Giants Of Rock gives the lowdown on 20 of the world's biggest rock acts from the Red Hot Chili Peppers to U2 breaking down their technique equipment and playing style so that the budding guitarist can sound like their axe-wielding hero. Complete with two CDs containing 22 backing tracks and 20 lead tracks in the styles of the artists featured inside as well as fulltab and notation for each song Giants Of Rock is all you need to become a Strat-wielding distortion-soaked windmilling maniac! A regular Guitar Techniques contributor and demonstrator Jamie Humphries has written and transcribed several books and CDs in Totatl Accuracy's Jam With... series while by day he teaches at the UK's Academy of Contemporary Music. He has written and contributed to a number of publications including Giants Of Metal also published by Sanctuary. Aerosmith The Black Crowes Bon Jovi Creed The Eagles Extreme Jimi Hendrix Incubus Lenny Kravitz Nirvana Pearl Jam Pink Floyd Puddle Of Mud Queen Red Hot Chilli Peppers Santana The Rolling Stones Thin Lizzy U2 Van Halen All levels.

Essential Guitar: The Modes Series-Learn to improvise compose and recognize modal music. Also includes a guitar jam track and licks in the style of Joe Satriani. Lessons by Danny Gill. The modes of the major scale have been used for centuries as a compositional tool and as a source for improvisation. This excellent DVD series will to take you through each of the 7 modes step by step so that you will be able to improvise compose and recognize modal music. Each DVD includes licks in the style of a featured artist and a guitar jam track. The Locrian Mode turotials include: Locrian scale patterns · finding the relative major scale · recognizing and creating Locrian chord progressions · Locrian arpeggios · Locrianlicks including legato technique · pick tapping and open string licks · and three licks in the style of Joe Satriani. Danny Gill is a former pupil of Joe Satriani and co-author of the Musicians Institute Rock Lead Guitar series. His songs have appeared on numerous TV shows including 'The Osbournes' as well as motion picture soundtracks such as 'Insomnia' and 'Under Siege.'

Fifty licks and lessons by Jean Marc Belkadi for creating red hot lead phrases! With this Musicians Institute Private Lessons edition you will find out about modal and tonal usage triad substition superimpositiontechniques and more. CD includes full-band tracks for all 50 exercises.

This guidebook teaches songwriters exactly how to create awesome solos that will really help their material stand out. Based on the study of nearly 900 songs from six decades of great music it explains the musical role played bysolos illustrates which notes work over any chord sequence and offers a comprehensive range of hints and tips for creating instrumental breaks that will enhance any song. An accompanying CD includes no fewer than 42 sample solosin a range of styles and moods. Separate backing tracks are provided for the reader to work with and play over. For songwriting guitarists the book goes beyond mere instrumental technique to demonstrate how lead guitar can bemade to serve a song rather than simply decorating it. It also explores the wide range of other instruments that can be used to create really stunning solos.

The blues recorded from the late 1920's through late 1930's is certainly some of the most vibrant sounds in American music history. It seems that anyone and everyone could and would be recorded which created a catalogue of stylistic diversity unmatched to date. The technique of using a slide whether a metal tube glass bottleneck or a knife was used by many of these early bluesmen.This lesson offers a look into the players from that era that used this technique. Many had only one or two patterns by which they played but we have the great fortune of gleaning from them all creating a well rounded grasp of the genre. Tom Feldmann is a master of this style and inthese two DVDs of over four hours he breaks down the complexities of this way of playing.Songs range from beginner to advanced. Most songs have a mixture of chords and fingered notes in addition to the slide making this a great lesson for those looking to expand their knowledge of the bottleneck/slide technique as well as the Open D and Open G tunings.A detailed tab/music booklet is included as a PDF file on each DVD. In addition the original recordings of all the tunes are included. Titles Include: OPEN G TUNING: BOBBY GRANT Nappy Headed Blues LEAD BELLY C.C. Rider BLIND WILLIE MCTELL Love Changing Blues BARBECUE BOB Yo Yo Blues CURLEY WEAVER No No Blues CHARLEY LINCOLN Depot Blues BO WEAVIL JACKSON You Can't Keep No Brown OPEN D TUNING: RAMBLIN' THOMAS Shake It Gal FURRY LEWIS Falling Down Blues PEG LEG HOWELL Skin Game Blues KING SOLOMON HILL Down On My Bended Knee SAM COLLINS The Jailhouse Blues KOKOMO ARNOLD Rainy Night Blues TAMPA RED Boogie Woogie Dance BUMBLE BEE SLIM No Woman No Nickel

Par LEADBETTER PHIL (TAUGHT). Although designed for the intermediate Dobroandreg - player, resonator guitarists at all levels can benefit from the topics discussed in this workshop video. Phil addresses: creating breaks, building speed, backing up a vocalist, dynamics, and working in a band, and offers lots of shortcuts to playing the Dobroandreg - . Several songs are performed with split- screen views of the left and right hands, and many licks are tabbed out onscreen. Additional topics include: proper microphone techniques for stage and studio and tips for buying a resonator guitar. This comprehensive workshop DVD covers all the bases! / Niveau : Intermédiaire / Accessoire / Guitare Country - Technic

Progressions & Songwriting-In this program Michael ?Padge? Paget lead guitarist of Bullet For My Valentine reveals his secrets and techniques for crafting the songs that have propelled the band to the top of the charts. Padge guides you through constructing a verse chorus pre-chorus break down and how to use them to form complete songs. Signature metal rhythm techniques like pedaling picked muted gallop and pivoting riff rhythms are shown in detail to learn how to apply them into progressions. Padge goes through many of his hit songs slowly as well as full speed and with full-band backing tracks. Creating great songs and rhythm progressions is a craft and this program will helpstart you on your way up the music charts. Features: iPod-ready video follow-along tab book and free lifetime membership for online lesson support.