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Rock Guitar
6 Free Melodic Modal Rock Licks From Jon Finn
Learning to weave modal melodies into your soloing is one of the most interesting steps you can take to improve yourself as a guitarist. And having a diverse to...
6 Free Space Age Rock ‘n Roll Guitar Lessons
Did you know Pop and Rock had their own "Renaissance?" That's right! "The Space Age," another fitting name for the '50s and '60s, was a time of reimagining musi...
TrueFire Teams Up with Guitar World & Other Top Magazines to Create the Ultimate in Guitar Masterclasses
In a special collaboration, the editors at Guitar World, home to the world's greatest suite of guitar magazines, have handpicked their favorite guitar lessons f...
3 Rock Pattern Soloing Guitar Lessons From Angus Clark
When learning to play rock on the guitar, it's natural to long to play quick, flashy solos like the legends. One truly efficacious way to gain this skill is by ...
Countrify Your Playing With These 6 Country Rock Guitar Lessons
The modern rock guitar player has a lot of responsibilities to uphold when it comes to being great. The great rock guitarists have a grip on theory, influential...
7 Heavy Rock Soloing Guitar Lessons With Alex Skolnick
Whether you are improvising a lead line, or crafting the perfect solo, you are always connecting different musical ideas together. This is how we express oursel...
7 Single-Note Guitar Licks To Fire Up Your Soloing In Any Style
When you start playing the guitar, or any instrument, you usually end up choosing a style or genre on which to focus. Blues, jazz, R&B, and rock might be some g...
Transform Chords Into Soaring Melodies With These 5 Melodic Guitar Soloing Lessons
Chords are a great source from which you can pull melodies and solos. After analyzing the notes in a chord, we can stack them on top of each other in a unique w...
Craft More Creative Lead Guitar Parts with Hybrid Picking Guitar Lessons From Andy Wood
In the first edition of ShapeShifter, Andy Wood showed us how to take the foundational harmonic and rhythmic knowhow that you already possess and apply it to fi...
Expand Your Lick Vocabulary and Hone Your Rock Guitar Soloing with These 7 Free Lessons from Corey Congilio
Whether you’re writing out a solo or improvising one, you’re connecting a series of musical ideas to express yourself. In his Jam Craft edition of Solo Factory,...
6 Melodic Modal Rocks Licks You MUST Know
Although these licks are modal, there's no need to fret - each of the licks presented here are versatile, usable rock licks that lend themselves to several play...