Breathe life into your phrases by applying quarter bends.

Work your way around the beat and get into the 'pocket' using micro timing.

Supercharge your expression with various timbres of micro dynamics.

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

Bending a note can make a lead very expressive, and make your licks come alive. This lesson is designed to help you focus on these subtle bends that make a note sing. The different licks I wrote are very bluesy but will work in any style of music.

In this lesson I've tried to combine some of the coolest blues licks that I've found and put them into a solo that last two blues choruses.

Fingerpicking style with micro bendings and slides.

Turkish fasil music, which is closely associated with Turkey's gypsy community, and the hugely popular arabesk, the country's most common pop style, which has roots in Arab raqs sharki (bellydance)!

We'll focus on phrasing, a very important thing which gives flavour to our playing. To build phrases we are going to use vibrato, glissando, arpeggios, full and micro bends, dynamic picking.