Start by diving straight into some of the most well used licks & patterns - designed to work at entry level speed!

A short etude focusing on moving laterally up the guitar neck.

How to approach 2 note per string patterns starting on upstrokes.

An exercise I do before shows to warm up for technical playing.

Heavy guitar riffs played at shred speed. Combines 16th note triplets and 16th notes at 144 bpm.

A few licks using the Dorian and minor pentatonic scale. The following licks are very usable in most musical situations.

Metal with some groove. A shuffle which allows to create interesting phrasing ideas. Combines alternate picking, legato, and sweep picking.

The Lydian mode is one of my favorites. It brings a mysterious kind of feel to a major 7th chord and is often used to "open up" a musical piece.

We'll talk about the Mixolydian mode. This mode is the 5th mode extracted from the Major scale.