Rock Guitar

Here you find a selection of licks which work great on classic rock lead guitar. The key for those licks are the bendings, the way you anticipate the bendings, the vibrato on the bendings and resolving the licks on the root note. Additional you can also add some repeating licks where you make some rhythmic ajustments to make them sound more interesting. The backing track is in E minor and in 100 bpm.
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Here you find some basic rock guitar legato exercises where you learn the Hammer - On and Pull - Off technique in the key of E minor in the open position, which makes the exercises easier at the beginning and also in the high position in the VII fret where this technique is normaly used. After the very basic exercises you find some combination of legato opening phrases and a long note played either with a vibrato or a bending, which is the normal way this kind of technique is used.
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Here you find some basic examples of chord combinations on a simple rock guitar riff in E5 and A5. The goal is not to learn them by heart. The goal is that you can play them so well that you can make your own chord combinations on the entire form of the track you can hear in the backing track. The form of the song is displayed on example 1.
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Here you find some tabs which you can use on a rock guitar lead guitar in Em by using long notes. The focus here is not a fast lick, its more about tone control and a proper vibrato. You can practice those ideas with the cool backing track added.
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Here you find some ideas for a easy to play but creative hard rock guitar riff in a drop D tuning where you tune down the low E string to a D. This makes the riff very easy to play. In the tabs you find some ideas which work with 3 basic rhythm patterns. The backing track is only drum and bass and is in broadcast quality in 90 bpm.
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Here you find some tabs and exercises which help you to master the full fretboard in your rock guitar solo by just using the A minor pentatonic pattern no 1 in the low and high position + the house of blues and the pattern no 4 as a bridge from the low A minor pentatonic position to the high position. The backing track is in 98 bpm so is quite easy for you to follow everything.
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Here you find a selection of exercises which give you the basic rock guitar training for your powerchord techniques which are the foundation of everything when it comes to rock rhyhtm guitar. The backing track is only drum and bass which gives you the full space to train those techniques.
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Here you find the tabs and the backing track of a symphonic classic rock guitar tune where you can develop the epic classic rock riff while you move along with the development arc in the tune I composed.
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Here you find the backing track of an original official composition of mine. The Song is called " United In Joy " and it is in the key of Gm. Try to play together with the orchestra then just playing fast runs or licks. Try to let your imagination and your inspiration flow will listening to the track while playing.
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Here you find some ideas for a cool guitar solo concept which you can play to Zakk Wylde's Black Label Society's song " In This River ". The backing track is in 75 bpm as heard on the live recording.
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Here you the E minor scale in one position in the VII fret. The goal while learning the scale is also to learn the notes which are included the scale and what there meaning is in a emotional kind of view and then start to make a rock guitar solo with that concept. I have added a small example to give you an idea how to work with those notes. The backing track is in 80 bpm.
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Here you find the tabs for a very cool and hypnotic rock guitar riff in the key of Em. I wrote down 4 different versions for you that you can variate the way you want while you are playing along with the cool backing track with 80 bpm.
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Here you find a small selection of easy rock guitar licks which you can use in any rock guitar tune in the key of Em. Those licks represent the main techniques which you need to train when you want to get into rock lead guitar. These are bending techniques in the main position of the minor pentatonic and picking techniques to build up speed. With these licks it's already fun and it already sounds the way it should. The backing track is quite slow so that you can work on building up your speed in a relaxed manner.
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Here you find the tabs and the backing track for a ueber cool rock guitar riff played with a drop D tuning. There are 2 versions available - the 2nd one leaves you a lot of space for improvisation in bar 4 of the riff. The backing track is professionaly produced by music-pictures.com
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Here you find a very cool hard rock guitar riff in the key of Am with several variations over a simple progression Am / Am / Am / C D . With those variations you can become creative and left this riff get some real punch. The backing track is as usual out of my own prodution line ( music-pictures.com ) and is in 90 bpm.
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Here you in the some advanced rock lead guitar licks and tabs which shall give you some ideas what to play along a high intensity rock lead guitar track. You can use the tabs as ideas and make your own combinations out of them. The backing track is in 120 bpm so it's pretty fast.
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If you want to learn the rock guitar riff you are hearing on the backing track you find the tabs here :

Here you find a selection of tabs with some Gary Moore vibes. The backing track is my production of Eric Claptons song Old Love. You can play the A minor pentatonics to this track.
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Here you find a very cool blues rock guitar riff played with a drop D tuning. It's one of my favorite blues rock guitar riffs and quit hard - well also hard to play. 😊 The backing track is in 120bpm and it's only drum and bass so the guitar has to make all the rest of the work.
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Here you find some very first and basic exercises which bring you into the world of alternate picking in rock lead guitar. The basic concept of alternate picking works with having downstrokes on any downbeats of your counting and upstrokes on any upbeats of your counting. This is a very basic concept which will not stay like this all the time but it lays down your foundation of a very well educated alternate picking technique and your timing will benefit very much from these exercises.
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Here you find some exercises with modes and chord notes for a rock tune with the following progression : A / A / A / A / A / A / A / A / D / D / A / A / D / D / E / E
First learn the modes you can use on each of the chords. Then learn the chord notes and try to attach them with a feeling or vibe. I call the root note " Closure " the triad " Definition " and the 5th " New Dimension " and try to use those notes related to the attached vibe or expression. Check it out it's fun.
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Here you find a selection of very basic rock guitar rhyhtm patterns on a simple chord progression. Try to do these exercises as precise as possible even if you think they are easy - always try to make music also with exercises you might think they are easy. The backing track is in 90bpm
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Here you find 3 cool classic major rock guitar riffs which work great with the classic rock guitar backing track in 95 bpm.
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Here you find 5 basic exercises where you can learn the very basics of the rock guitar damping technique. The tabs work great together with the backing track with only drum and bass.
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Here you find 3 easy rock guitar licks which you can play with the cool rock guitar backing with 95 bpm. Try to first play them as perfect as possible and then start to get creative with them.
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Here you find the tabs and the backing track for a very cool intermediate rock guitar riff played with a drop D tuning. The rock backing track is with 120bpm.
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