Check out some tasty riffs and licks that bring to mind the hard partying sounds of Poison.

Cover of Marty Friedman's awesome solo.

A basic strumming pattern in a ballad style to improve your strumming, hand rhythm, and feel

Metal riff in the style of 80's metal bands.

Rock music as we know it today would not be the same without the eighties. Many bands back then have influenced musicians today in many ways. The most important thing in the following examples is to stay as melodic as possible.

Gabriel holds an easy rock lesson for beginner/intermediate players, composed using only A pentatonic minor scale. It sounds like 80's hard rock bands such as Motley Crue, Whitesnake, Kiss, Cinderella...

Gabriel Leopardi presents a rhythm lesson in the style of Poison, Motley Crue, AC/DC, Buckcherry and many other hard/glam rock bands. This lesson is suited for beginner/intermediate players.

Second lesson of my new hard rock series based on greatest rock bands ever!

This lesson covers the style of the band Motley Crue.