The most important guitar techniques - all covered in one amazing solo!

We will study a guitar solo inspired in Paul Gilbert, Steve Vai, Van Halen and others. It contains a lot of legatos, tapping and pinch harmonics.

This solo illustrates how to put your licks together and produce a modern solo which has a melody rather than just random thrown licks.

We are finally at the advanced part of this solo with Marcus Lavendell. Most of the techniques here are not really that difficult, but they should be played very fast which makes it a bit more tricky.

Let's roll up our sleeves and start applying micro techniques to our playing.

Classic pedal steel for guitar

A faster swing solo using D major scale, neighbour notes, and some "out of scale" notes.

As you may know, Howe is a great rock fusion guitarist, he has got many technical resources: legato, sweep picking, tapping, alternate picking and an extensive musical vocabulary.

I listened "Animals" by Nickelback and wrote a similar riff for the backing track. Contains techniques such as bending, slides, legato.