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A mind game method for creating the right solo for the song.

Mike Campese helps you to increase your speed and technical facility.

Ideas that make good melodic sense whether you play them fast or slow.

Zammit`s back with the first part of his challenging and beneficial chromatic exercises.

Canadian guitarist David Martone has been busy lately, and has a full clinic schedule this summer.

Mike Campese gives you exercises and tios on how to pedal your way to musical nirvana.

Zammit`s back with the second part of his challenging and beneficial chromatic exercises.

Solo ideas and strategies that will help you build a memorable solo.

Improve your legato technique with Zammit`s exercises.

Mike Campese is back with more ideas he used on his "Electric City" CD.

Express yourself with bends using Zammit`s exercises.

Mike Campese returns to revisit more ideas for the Phrygian Dominant scale.

You can use the Harmonic Minor scale to add exotic twists to your solos.

Mike Campese serves up a holiday treat - his take on the Grinch`s theme song.

Paul Tauterouff is back with an easy to play sequence that can help you to create some new and interesting sounds.

Nick has new ideas for making your own licks come alive.

Joe continues onward in the series of practicing techniques that require no physical practice.

Juan Coronado shows how playing circles with the pick can help you play scales faster by economizing the movement.

Just when you thought all arpeggio topics had been covered, Mike`s back with triad arpeggio practice ideas.

Mike is focusing on the Japanese Hirajoshi scale in this lesson on exotic scales.

A different perspective on the pentatonic scale using arpeggios.

Mike is back to take your scales up to a whole new level.

Digging in with practical application of the pentatonic scale.

You`ve grouped in fives; now add two, and we`ll group in sevens.

Scott Allen focuses on licks that grab attention of the listener.

If you are familiar with pentatonic scales, this may be a great way to get into modal playing.

Scott Allen focuses once again on licks that grab attention of the listener.

Here is the main guitar line from Campese`s version of this holiday classic, as featured on his Christmas album.

Mike gets a little more detailed here, building on his previous sweeping columns.

Building on the last column, Mike adds more examples here, building on his previous sweeping columns.

Michael Knight returns with the first installment of his Exotic Scales series.

Building on the last two columns, Mike wraps up the series with a G minor arpeggio progression.

Mike Campese introduces you to a cool scale sequence that is not commonly used.

Take a small pattern and turn it into a larger phrase that will sound cohesive.

Here`s how to play in 4/4 time, switch time signatures and remain in time.

Showing you how to apply 5/8 time to your playing and how to change meters smoothly.

Explaining inside/outside picking, and how it can help you alternate pick difficult passages.

Two for one - a Bach excerpt arranged for guitar, along with some timeless advice.

Combining fretted notes with sustaining open strings underneath gives the illusion that the guitar has more strings than just six sometimes.

Mike is back with the second part of a Bach excerpt arranged for guitar.

Two notes together can move in more ways than up and down together.

Mike Campese is back with excerpts from his latest CD, "Chameleon".