Mike returns with some ideas on how to incorporate half-tones and other non-scale notes into your lines.
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Mike returns with some ideas on how to incorporate half-tones and other non-scale notes into your lines.
Mike returns with some fun arpeggio licks he uses in his own playing.
Learning the fretboard through scales by Mike Campese.
How to develop the ability to use right hand figers along with the pick.
More ways to master the fretboard through the use of the pentatonic scale.
How you can add something different to your solos to sound a little more `out`.
Guitarist Jeff Scheetz` own blistering version of this holiday chestnut.
Sooner or later, you`ll want to make your solos more exciting. Start by making up new scale sequences.
Getting the left hand to keep up with the right hand sweep through hand synchronization.
Applying time-shifting to enhance tapped arpeggios.
How to write something you cannot play, and then playing it.
Sean Mercer teaches you a single right-hand finger tapping technique.
Add some excitement to your playing by playing outside the scale.
Complete understanding of the modes has eluded many a guitarist. Here`s part two of Mike Campese`s multi-part lesson.
Sean Mercer returns with ways to help you break out of the 3 and 4 note sequence rut.
Constructing your own chord voicings and increasing your chord vocabulary.
Add some excitement to your playing by playing outside the scale. This time: the diminished scale.
Knowing the modes, and putting them to good use, are two different things. Here`s part three of Mike Campese`s multi-part lesson.
Mike Campese is back with more modal mayhem.
Mike Campese is back with powerful compositional tool (and a play out of Satriani`s playbook).
Mike Campese shifts into high gear with these high tech shred licks.
Mike Campese turns the tried and true triad into an improvisational treat.
Mike Campese again turns the tried and true triad into an improvisational treat.
The second part of taking a well-known violin caprice to the six-string.
More ideas on how you can add a really cool twist to your playing.
Mike Campese opens 2005 with a great workout for your pickin` hand.
Mike Campese blazes through exercises from his all new CD, entitled "The New".
Mike Campese demonstrates that you can get many unique sounds out of just one scale.
Mike Campese with more examples of getting many unique sounds out of just one scale.
A very challenging, but rewarding technique, with guitarist Mick Neil.
A look at ornamenting interval riffs with melody fragments.
Want to break out of the blues rut? Danny Jones offers some great starting points.
Get out your brooms and... no wait, check that - here are Mike`s hottest sweep picking techniques.
Scare your audience (or even make someone hurl) with this ascending (yet descending) pattern.
Here are Mike`s sweep picking techniques applied to a revered classical caprice.
Give your listeners a little bit more by throwing in an unexpected time change.
Danny Jones is back with blues licks taken from his recorded solos.
Guitarist Randy Ellefson introduces two basic ideas in counterpoint: oblique motion and contrary motion.
Mike Campese offers an unusual technique that can yield some surprisingly cool results.
Developing riffs and melodies into complete, interesting and listenable pieces of music.
Danny Jones is back with blues licks featuring dynamic double stops.
Annihilate your tendencies to rely on reflexes, and use the force instead.