Hybrid Picking is an exciting technique that utilizes regular picking combined with other fingers of the picking hand. This allows more speed and fluidity for many licks, runs and phrases. Complex rhythm styles can be executed with greater ease and some rhythm pieces simply cannot be played without it. Top country players like Albert Lee to hot rockers such as Steve Vai have studied this technique and have added many cool licks and phrases to their repertoire. Join Stuart Bull in a lesson of hybrid picking and see how this can work for you too. The approach Stuart takes...

Top educator, performing artist and Nashville twang ace Joe Dalton draws from years of experience in the studio and on stage to present these 50 hot-country guitar licks you MUST know! Dalton’s handpicked range of phrases, concepts and techniques takes you through a variety of country styles to help guide your development of the tools, techniques and vocabulary you’ll need to take your country guitar playing to the next level. Joe shares his favorite go-to moves and licks, including pedal steel lines that incorporate bends against stationary notes with hybrid right-hand picking techniques. You’ll explore acoustic riffs, chicken pickin’...

Learn to play the electric guitar techniques that will add hot solos and powerful drive to any country or rock band! On this thrilling DVD, Ray Flacke teaches the mind-boggling licks that have made him highly sought-after for record dates, jingles and live gigs on the Nashville scene for more than thirty years. You’ll learn double-stops, pedal steel-like string bends, multiple hammer-ons and pull-offs, string damping, playing below the nut and other dazzling techniques. A premier exponent of the use of flatpick-and-fingers, Ray clearly demonstrates how he produces his distinctive country pickin’ sound along with his soulful soloing techniques....

You’d only need fingers and toes to count up the number of guitarists whose sound is so singular that you’d recognize them immediately by ear alone. David Grissom would definitely make that list long before you even got to your toes. In fact, David’s tone, style and musicality is so distinct that it likely wouldn’t take more than a measure or two to crack a smile of recognition. David organized Open Road Guitar into two sections. In the first section, he presents the 25 key concepts and techniques that comprise his signature style: Hand Position, Picking Technique, Hybrid Picking,...

Gil’s signature Country Fried style is an innovative blend of blues, country, funk and jazz. You’ll learn lines that move inner voices ala Jack Wilkins and the late Ted Greene, ascending chromatic ideas inspired by the Adderley Brothers, how to emulate Herbie Hancock’s pulsating funky sound, hip tritone double-stops, effective ways to fingerstyle and blues-up the minor cliché utilizing the root, major 7, Flat 7 and 6th, pick up on a great shape to bend into the 4 chord, pianistic 10ths for freshening up any blues lick, sax emulation, funky Benson double stops, unusual but highly usable chord voicings,...

The 3rd volume of free drumless tracks by FastStrings.com. This set includes such bands (artists) as: Guns N Roses, Incubus, Iron Maiden, Jimi Hendrix, Kiss, Korn, Lamb of God, Linkin Park, Megadeth and many more. We proud to offer these great play-along songs for our fans. Use these tracks to enhance your playing skills or to just have fun. The 3rd volume includes almost 300 tracks in such styles as: rock, jazz, blues, metal, hard rock, punk. 300 Backing Tracks for Drummers to Practice and Perform. Play along, jam tracks, minus drums for free. How to download please read...

Lessons from Adam Gussow from Beginners to Advanced. A lot of examples on harmonica in the key of Bb, but do not worry those who have a harmonica in a different key. Important principle of what Gussow says, not the notes, which are extracted. Even those who are not fluent in English understand what says Mr. Gussow, because he describes everything very very good, sometimes even drawing diagrams. Lessons in the format flv, once were downloaded from YouTube, approx 150 videos, plus a couple of videos about the band, which plays Adam, is also very interesting, because you can...

We’ve got a most excellent collection of guitar backing tracks, jam tracks, guitar minus tracks, guitar play alongs for you to download in MP3 format. Choose from our most popular selections, such as Black Sabbath, Led Zeppelin, Eric Clapton and many more. The long list of guitar backing tracks will be sure to provide you with your favourite tunes and give you the opportunity to listen as you learn to play. This set includes almost every style: Rock, Jazz, Latin, Blues, Metal, Funk and so on… Specially for FastStrings.com fans. Our entire guitar backing tracks is high quality, almost...

MJS – Easy Guitar Tricks – Lead And Rhythm Guitar Techniques Used By The Pros! Learn to use the highly-guarded techniques of the guitar pros! Make each and every note count! Playing a note – or even a handful of notes – is one thing, but learning to give each note life, while making them sound tight, professional and desirable, is an important task to master. Using simple techniques that have taught thousands of eager students over the past 18 years, expert guitar instructor Mark John Sternal teaches you fun, useful guitar tricks quickly and easily. You’ll be amazed...

Lenny Breau – Master Class This rare video taped footage of Lenny Breau was captured in July 1982, while he was teaching a master class at the University of Southern California. It is not a high-tech production, but a precious moment in time, captured on amateur video. The unassuming Breau plays each song, takes questions from the class and explains his technique and methods. Jazz guitar enthusiasts and Lenny Breau fans will appreciate the opportunity to have this visual glimpse into the genius of Lenny Breau, and all music lovers will marvel at his incredible, effortless and unique style...