After you got familiar with 3-string sweep picking it's time to move onto some 5-string shapes!These shapes will allow you to create some long crazy runs and you'll also see how to combine them with 3-string shapes. Cool thing about sweeps is if you have a melody in your head you can replace one note with the whole arpeggio shape and make a crazy sounding solo. For example, instead of playing the note A in a melody, you can play the whole A minor triad arpeggio.

Sweeping is one of the coolest shred trick to play crazy solos that sound "WOW!". When you get it down and combine with other techniques you'll be able to play really crazy solos that will sound like: "How the hell did he do that?!". When i first met this technique and heard Michael Angelo Batio sweeping I told myself: "There is no way i will ever be able to do that!". With hard practice and feeling of: "I am gonna get you!"- you too can too!! So get your guitar and build your sweeping skills here!

This lesson shows how to connect similar shapes of chords, triads and pentatonics with the tapping technique.

This lesson is about an interesting approach how to sound more jazzy using simple major scale patterns and three modes of it.

Traditional Country-Folk style using Chet Atkins / Merle Travis style hybrid picking.

Searching for different chord shapes and a better fretboard understanding? That's for you!

Learn how to make unique shapes for improvisation.

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.

Welcome to the second, and intermediate part of this three-level-solo with Marcus Lavendell! Instead of playing faster we are going to focus on more techniques. We're still in the key of E-minor and the scales we use are still minor & pentatonic blues scale, same as in the first part.