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- Smooth Rhythm GuitarLEVEL 3Tips & examples for smooth rhythm guitar playing
- Hard Rock RiffingLEVEL 4Learn to play hard rock pentatonic riffs.
- Hard Rock DyadsLEVEL 3Learn how to play "dyads" or double stops in the hard rock manner.
- Vintage Hard RockLEVEL 5Based on Vintage Rock bands like AC/DC where we can find the predominant use of the pentatonic scale in composition and in the solos.
- Hard Rock InsanityLEVEL 7A solo from my band, Tirana Rockers
- Hard Rock Chord ProgressionLEVEL 4At the request of several students, today we will be seeing a rhythmic lesson of Hard Rock!
- Hard Rock Style RiffsLEVEL 4A heavy sounding Rock chord progression to improve your rhythm and your dynamics!
- Hard Rock Blues ShuffleLEVEL 7Play a blues shuffle with a rocker sound, and increase your vocabulary of pentatonic licks, major and minor blues scales, bending, double stops and more.
- Melodic Hard Rock PhrasingLEVEL 7Phrasing over a basic chord progression, using various techniques and scales. Improve your overall timing and scale visualisation!
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alfredsuresh19th November 2011wow Awesome playing and nice melody!
Jonathan Burgos18th May 2010very inspiring lesson, awesome articulation and tasty licks, you are one of my favourite players of argentina man!!!
Thanks you very very much Chowy! These words are very important to me. Thanks
Chowy Fernandez18th May 2010very inspiring lesson, awesome articulation and tasty licks, you are one of my favourite players of argentina man!!!
- Jonathan Burgos17th May 2010Killer riffing and a tasty solo, your phrasing is simply awesome!
Thanks you very much Zsolt! And thanks to everybody for the comments! 
Zsolt Galambos17th May 2010Killer riffing and a tasty solo, your phrasing is simply awesome!
thefireball15th May 2010Nice!!!
Laszlo Boross14th May 2010Tasty and very useful! Perfect lesson!
Ivan Milenkovic14th May 2010great licks Jonathan, sounds cooL!
- Jonathan Burgos14th May 2010
thanks guys! I´m glad!
Gerardo Siere14th May 2010Excelent playing and articulation!
Bogdan Radovic14th May 2010Very inspiring licks Jonathan!
Adrian Figallo14th May 2010very tasty licks man!
- Jonathan Burgos14th May 2010
Thanks people!!!!!!!!!!!
Alexiaden9314th May 2010Incredible playing, Jonathan
I love your legato and vibrato, makes the melody beautiful 
Lian Gerbino14th May 2010awesome playing man!!!
chmilew14th May 2010Another awesome lesson, thank you my friend
playaxeman14th May 2010Great lesson. Great tone. Quality as usual.
kaznie_NL14th May 2010Awesome riff
haha, it's soooo cool Nice use of arpeggio's as well 
Kristofer Dahl14th May 2010Super tasty as usual Jonathan!
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Hello guitar lovers! Today we'll continue investigating Hard Rock variants. While it is a very complete style, it uses mostly traditional harmonies and scales, such as the blues scale, major and minor scale, etc..
Today's lesson is aimed at style rockers the Hard Rock. Bands like Mr. Big, Motley Crue, Velvet Revolver, Jeff Scott Soto, Danger Danger, Gun's & Roses among many others, have managed to create songs with similar characteristics.
Well, folks, hope you enjoy this new lesson.
Chords:
G5 – D#sus – F5 – Cm7 – A#/D – Gm7
Techniques:
Legato
Alternate picking
Bending
Vibrato
Slide
Palm muting
Scales
G Minor Scale + Blue note
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