Free Video Guitar Lessons


Watch the videos on this page to learn how to practice guitar more efficiently and improve your guitar technique, guitar speed, and guitar soloing.

Free Guitar Solo Video Lessons

 
          How To Instantly Improve Your Guitar Soloing Ability

Are you trying to find a way to become a better lead guitar player? Most guitar players have a hard time playing guitar solos that sound interesting. One reason for this is that they spend too much time worrying about what notes to play, and not enough time focusing on how to create great melodies. Learning to create a truly great melody will set you apart from the vast majority of guitar players out there. Find out how to play great lead guitar with this video guitar solo lesson.
             
             
          How To Make Your Lead Guitar Solos More Dramatic

If you'd like to play guitar solos that feel really intense and dramatic, it's important to focus on getting the most emotion out of every note you play. As you play lead guitar solos, you may notice that some notes sound more expressive and dramatic than others over certain chords. If you can identify which notes these are, you will be able to make highly dramatic guitar phrases that sound great. Study the lead guitar tips in this video guitar lesson to see how you can play better guitar solo phrases.
             
             
          Guitar Solo Phrasing Tips

Knowing how to play lead guitar solos that sound great is one of the abilities most guitar players want to have. If you'd like to play guitar solos like the pros, then you'll need to do more than just play fast guitar techniques. So what does it take to play great lead guitar? Watch this video guitar lesson to learn how you can make incredible guitar solos by using good guitar phrasing.

             
             
          How To Use The Harmonic Minor Scale In Your Guitar Solos

If you are like most guitar players, you want to find a way to make your guitar solos more powerful and intense. Part of the solution lies in the way you play guitar, and part of it is in the scales you use to make your guitar solos. Check out this harmonic minor scale guitar lesson to learn how to achieve a more exotic sound in your lead guitar playing.

             
             
          Improve Your Guitar Solos By Getting More Expression From A Single Musical Phrase

Have you ever wondered how all great guitar players make their guitar solos sound incredible? This has very little to do with the fact that they can play very fast or that they know advanced guitar techniques. The reason they play guitar so well is because they have mastered the ability to use good guitar phrasing. Once you learn to create great lead guitar solo phrases, you will be able to make incredible guitar solos as well. Watch this guitar solo video lesson where I help one of my students improve their guitar phrasing skills.
             
          Make Your Lead Guitar Solos Sing By Mastering Guitar Vibrato

Do your guitar solos lack the overall power and feeling that you want to express?  If so, you're not alone. Most guitarists fail to play great guitar solos for many reasons, one of which is a lack of good guitar vibrato technique. Watch this video guitar lesson and find out how to play vibrato on guitar to drastically enhance your lead guitar playing.

             
             
          Play Better Guitar Solos By Applying These Guitar Solo Phrasing Tips

Do you have difficulty trying to play great guitar solos? If you are like most guitar players, you are probably not using good overall lead guitar phrasing. Watch this guitar video lesson to learn how to play guitar solos using my guitar phrasing tips.

             
             
          Metal Guitar Soloing Lesson On Using Speed In Your Lead Guitar Phrases

If you have problems with making your guitar solos sound good, you're not alone. Many guitarists can play some fast licks here and there, but struggle to use speed in their guitar solos in a way that sounds good. Watch this metal guitar solo lesson on video to find out how to use speed in your guitar solos to make your lead guitar playing sound great.

             
             
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Free Guitar Video Lessons For Building Speed On Guitar

 
          The Secrets To Fast Guitar Playing

Do you want to know how to effectively build guitar speed in a short amount of time? Many guitar players want to increase their guitar speed, but have no idea how to do so in the best way possible.  Watch this guitar speed exercises video, and I'll show you a highly effective strategy for quickly developing MASSIVE amounts of guitar speed.

             
          How To Increase Guitar Speed By Reducing Picking Hand Movements

If you want to play guitar fast, you will need to get rid of all the extra movements in your picking hand. This will require you to alter your current guitar picking technique to where every picking motion has a specific purpose (with no unnecessary movements). Once you are able to play guitar in this manner, you will start to see your guitar speed progress in a very short amount of time. Watch this video guitar lesson on how to increase guitar speed and see this demonstrated on the guitar.

             
             
          Play Shred Guitar Better By Avoiding This Crucial Mistake

Many guitar players want to be able to play shred guitar solos like the pros. Unfortunately, if you make the same mistake that these guitarists make, you will greatly limit your potential to accurately play fast guitar solos. One key to efficiently playing shred guitar is learning how to avoid excessive muscle tension or unnecessary motion. Watch this video guitar lesson on how to play shred guitar and I'll show you exactly how you can avoid these problems and learn to play guitar fast.

             
             
          Guitar Practice Approach For Learning How To Play Guitar Fast

One of the most common ways guitar players practice for speed is by playing slowly and gradually speeding up over time. When you use this practice method exclusively, you are actually placing limits on yourself, and may never reach your guitar speed goals. A more effective approach involves integrating several guitar speed building methods into your guitar practice sessions. In this video guitar lesson on how to play guitar faster I will show you exactly how to do this.

             
             

Free Guitar Video Lessons On Guitar Technique

 
          How To Play Guitar Cleanly By Improving Your Guitar Picking Technique

One of the biggest problems that most guitarists run into as they try to play guitar fast is sloppy noise that comes from the strings that are not being played.  Fortunately there is an effective way to practice guitar that will allow you to keep your guitar playing clean at any speed.  Watch this guitar picking technique video guitar lesson to avoid sloppy guitar playing and improve your speed picking.

             
             
          How To Play Guitar Sweeps Fast And Clean

Playing incredibly fast and accurate sweep picking arpeggios can add a very high level of intensity to your guitar solos. Unfortunately, most guitar players have a hard time with sweep picking and don't know how to practice this guitar technique in the best way possible. Watch this guitar video lesson on how to master sweep picking to find out how to practice this guitar technique more effectively and avoid the mistakes that many guitarists make when trying to learn to sweep pick on guitar.
             
             
          Use Rolling Technique To Play High Speed Sweep Arpeggios

If you want to play fast sweep picking arpeggios, one of the most effective techniques you can use to do this involves "rolling" your fingers across the strings.  Many guitar players struggle with doing this technique cleanly and fast, but it can be learned quickly and easily by applying correct guitar practice approaches.  Watch this guitar video lesson to see exactly how to sweep pick fast using the rolling technique.
             
             
          How To Improve Your 2 Hand Coordination And Learn To Play Guitar Faster And More Accurately

To become a truly great guitar player, you must learn to control and balance the different levels of tension in your picking and fretting hands.  This will give you the ability to play guitar fast and accurately. Watch this guitar video lesson on guitar coordination and find out how to become a much better guitarist by learning to control each of your hands independently.
             

Free Guitar Practice Video Lessons

 
          How To Switch Chords Faster On Guitar

Many guitar players cannot switch from one chord to the next in a song very smoothly. When you hesitate in between chords in a musical situation it can make the music sound broken up and out of time. See how you can solve this problem and learn to change chords in a fast and fluid manner with this guitar lesson video on how to switch chords on guitar.
             
             
          Play Interesting Chord Progressions Using More Creative Chords

Most guitar players do not pay much attention to how they use chords. Often they will simply take the basic open chords and play the same chord positions over and over. The problem with this is that using these same chords becomes boring quickly. The solution to this is to focus on how individual notes within each chord move from one chord to the next.  Watch this creative guitar chords video guitar lesson and find out how to play much cooler chord progressio


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