Let's give our picks a rest for a few moments. That's right! Today's lesson is on Fingerpicking, which is a great alternative to using a conventional pick. Let your fingers do the walking!

Today we're going to learn how to palm mute! Palm muting will allow us to effectively alter the dynamics in our playing and will improve our skills immensely!

Today, we learn to slide! Sliding is a very important part of playing lead guitar. It has a very vocal like quality to it and can be used for great expression and emotion in playing, in a similar but different way than bending.

Let's take a look at some beginner alternate picking! The past 3 lessons have been about legato, so now we're working on a new technique that is the opposite of legato: alternate picking!

It's time to take what we've learned from the past 2 lessons and combine them into some smooth legato playing! We've learned about hammer-ons and pull-offs, now we're just going to put them together and get them acquainted with one another.

Let's dive into pull-offs! If you're interested in learning to play with some killer legato, this is the place to start. Pull-offs are the second half of legato (check out my hammer-ons lesson for the first half!). We'll progress from absolute beginner to more advanced beginner through this lesson and learn some fun licks along the way!

Let's look at hammer-ons! If you're interested in learning to play with some killer legato, this is the place to start. Hammer-ons are the first half of legato. We'll progress from absolute beginner to more advanced beginner through this lesson and learn some fun licks along the way!

As we progress through our journey as beginning guitarists, we turn our attention to string bending for this lesson. Keep in mind that even though this lesson is focused on beginners, those who are more advanced would do well to practice this lesson to improve the precision of bending strings to the correct pitch.

Taking a little detour from usual learning of chords and rhythm techniques, we are going to learn a beginner level solo in D major. We'll be drawing from knowledge of the major scale and focusing on melody!