Ever felt stuck as a rhythm guitarist, wishing you could break out with some killer guitar techniques? You're not alone, and I've got just the solution for you! In this lesson, we're tackling exactly that.

If you're a rhythm guitarist dreaming of shredding epic solos, this is for you. We'll dive into practical tips and techniques to help you transition from a boring way to play pentatonic to having great chops. So, grab your guitar, channel your inner lead guitarist, and let's embark on this journey together. Trust me, you'll be rocking those solos like a pro in no time!

Ready to elevate your guitar playing? This lesson will help you skyrocket your pentatonic speed from 0 to 100 in just minutes! Designed for both beginners and intermediate players, it covers everything from building a solid foundation to mastering advanced techniques. We'll explore the pentatonic scale and the CAGED system, providing you with the tools and insights needed to unlock your full potential and take your guitar solos to the next level.

Discover the secrets to lightning-fast pentatonic playing with step-by-step exercises and practical tips that build dexterity, precision, and confidence. Whether you're into rock, blues, or any genre that relies on the pentatonic scale, this lesson offers a pathway to becoming a guitar speed expert. Don't miss this opportunity to enhance your guitar skills and transform your playing from ordinary to extraordinary!

In this video, I am going to demonstrate straightforward techniques to connect the pentatonic scale across the entire fretboard. By mastering these methods, guitarists can seamlessly transition between different positions of the pentatonic scale, enhancing their ability to solo with fluidity and precision. I will break down the scale into manageable sections, showing you how to link them together in a way that makes the fretboard feel less daunting and more intuitive.

As you follow along, you'll learn how to always find the right note no matter where you are on the neck, giving you the confidence to improvise and create music on the fly. These tips are designed to help you break out of the typical boxed-in scale patterns, allowing for a more expressive and dynamic playing style. By the end of the video, you'll have the tools to approach soloing with true freedom, knowing you can effortlessly navigate the fretboard and hit the perfect note every time.

It’s time to elevate your guitar practice! Today, we’re diving into an exercise that doubles as a killer shred lick. I love it when things work out that way.

This exercise might be your first introduction to shred licks, and I’m more than okay with that.

The benefits of exercises like this are numerous, but the main focus is to train your fretting hand to play different finger orders across the fretboard using a 3-note-per-string approach. This builds the muscle memory needed for faster playing.

We'll also use this exercise to enhance our picking hand technique. It's perfect for smoothly introducing the economy picking technique.

In summary, you’re getting an exercise that will speed up both your fretting and picking hands and can serve as a shred guitar lick as you build speed. That’s my kind of epic guitar practice!

One of the best ways to sound like a pro is to add the intervals of the 6th technique to your playing. The best way I know to understand this technique is to make the connection between the shapes of the chords you already know and then isolate the sixth intervals. After that, you can use the CAGED System to connect to other chord shapes and spread this amazing technique throughout the fretboard of your guitar. 

The intervals of the 6th technique, also known as sixths, create a smooth and sophisticated sound in your playing. By mastering this technique, you'll be able to play harmonized melodies, create lush chord voicing, and add a professional touch to your improvisations. Sixths are incredibly versatile and can be used in a variety of musical styles, making them a valuable tool for any guitarist.   

Incorporating this technique into your playing will not only enhance your sound, but also boost your confidence and open up new creative possibilities on the guitar.

One of the many tools every lead guitarist carries in their toolbelt is the ability to solo with the chord change. While beginners and intermediate guitarists often start their solo journey by learning how to solo according to the key of the song, more advanced guitarists take their solos to the next level by soloing not only according to the key but also according to the chord change. This opens up a whole new world of colors and moods to explore, not to mention making the solo sound more musical.

The best way to develop the ability to change scales according to the chords is to use the pentatonic scale in conjunction with the chord change. In this lesson, we'll take the first steps towards achieving this, and you'll be surprised at how quickly your solos sound more professional.

This lick uses the tapping technique, but it's much easier than you think. And once you learn it, you'll be able to use it in any genre, major or minor key.

Whether you're a rock icon, a country musician, a church musician, or a jazz musician, this lick will make you sound more badass than ever before. So what are you waiting for?

Get out there and learn this lick today!

 The sixth interval is one of the coolest and warmest sounds to explore on the guitar. You've gotta have the skill to work with the Interval of Sixth if you're a lead guitarist.

The tricky part is figuring out how to find and use it in your playing. That's exactly what I'm going to help you with in this lesson.

I'll show you how to spot the sixth interval using just two basic chord shapes. You'll not only get the theory behind it but also start rocking out with this awesome tool right away!

Playing guitar is all about shapes. You start with shapes for chords, then move on to shapes for the pentatonic scale, and eventually, you tackle shapes for the major and minor scales. Unlike the piano, where you actually know which notes you're hitting in chords and scales, on the guitar, you're all about shapes – that's the deal.

But here's the catch: leaning too much on these shapes can trap your creativity. If you rely on them too heavily, it can put a damper on your solo-writing skills because you're stuck within those confines.

In this lesson, we're going to dive into a simple technique that rock legends like Steve Vai and Joe Satriani love to use and abuse. We're going to play the major scale in a straight-up, linear way – meaning we're sticking to just one string for our major scale and solo.

This technique is going to push you out of your shape-dependent comfort zone and force you to come up with music ideas that are wildly different from what you'd get if you stuck t...

I know you want to be a better lead guitar player... me to! The technique you'll learn on this video can do that to you: take you to the next level of lead playing. Just do this ever day when you pick up your guitar.

The ability to connect the chords and the scales is one the best ways to sound more melodic and creative. It will increase your confidence especially when it comes to picking the right notes to solo.

This is a beginner-intermediate solo improvising guitar lesson.