This summer has Lick Library releasing a massive range of their guitar learning DVD titles for sale.

For those of you who’ve wanted to purchase some of their guitar DVD tutorials, now’s your chance! Most of these titles are going for 50% off their usually marked price. Below are the titles I’ve personally bought in the past and recommend you check out. These are especially good for you if you’re into Rock or Metal.

• Extreme Guitar Metal Edge – Extreme Tapping Techniques

• Ultimate Guitar Techniques

• Quick Licks For Fast Rock – Van Halen style

• Jam With AC/DC

You can find these DVD’s at the Lick Library website.

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The first tutorial DVD titled ” Learn To Play Gary Moore ” features songs like ” Still Got The Blues ” and it shows you how to play via the note by note method. I’ve personally always loved the Lick Library collection of guitar tutorials and I’ve found that it’s probably the best way to learn if you want to master a particular song.

The other two DVD’s ” Learn to Play Gary Moore ‘The Solos’ ” and ” Quick Licks in the style of Gary Moore ” round out this collection and teaches you a collection of hot solos and lick most commonly played by Gary Moore. Again, these are great for beginners through to advanced guitar players as it breaks it all down for you note for note.

At the end of each DVD, there are also jam tracks for you to practice what you’ve just learned, which is the thing I love most about these Lick Library instructional DVD’s.

You can purchase them at www.licklibrary.com

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I’ve had several emails to Guitar Tutorials Now over the last month asking ” How much strength or force should I put on a pick for an electric guitar? “.

Well first let’s clear things up. You don’t put the force on the pick really, but rather the force is on the guitar strings. From my experience many electric guitar tutorials never mention the force applied to the string, and I think this is quite an important factor when it comes to your guitar playing.

The trick is to put less pressure on the strings, the faster you want to play. If you’re playing a slow Blues solo, you could put your usual amount of force on the string, but when it comes to some faster Metal alternate picking or hybrid picking licks, you would not apply AS much force.

The theory is simple really. Too much force causes you to dig your pick deep past the guitar string, and in doing so, would require you to apply more strength to get your pick past the string and onto the next one.

For faster picking, you’d only want to be applying about 2 mm of your pick ( at most ) to the string, and no more.

Try this technique and you’ll be taking your electric guitar lead playing past the speed limit in no time

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Then, we have Marty Friedman. Those of you who don’t know him, he’s somewhat of a musical genius and friend of Jason Becker. Anyway, back to the guitar lesson!

He explains in this guitar lesson that got a bit of an unorthodox way of playing.  What he does is improvises using the notes in the chord progression being played for rhythm – he NEVER learned any guitar scales! It’s much like learning how to use arpeggios to improvise.  This is a very difficult and long-winded way of learning to play guitar scales but then again, if you set your mind to it, anything is possible!

At one point, I did attempt this technique ( with a backing track ) and put aside what I’ve learned in other electric guitar tutorials and the result was that I found some really nice notes that actually sounded in tune, yet very unique! It helped me break out of the rut of my usual improvisation ( ie. playing the same notes all the time ).

I would not recommend any beginners who are learning guitar to try this. Wait until you’ve mastered your scales, and you’ll find that Marty’s technique will start to make sense.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uSaTAGsIBEI[/youtube]

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The difference between electric and acoustic guitars is the magnet used in the pickups

photo credit: Roadside Guitars

An acoustic guitar is generally hollow on the inside while most electric guitars are solid bodies – Yes I’m sure I’m stating the obvious here. So then, if an acoustic guitar uses its hollow body to resonate sound, how does an electric guitar produce it’s sound?

The answer: ” Pickups “.

As you know, pickups are nothing more than a little device sitting under your guitar strings, so how does the sound get received and transferred to your amplifier?

Another common question I’ve been asked via email is:

” How come guitars with passive pickups still work without the need of batteries? ”

Here’s a quick explanation ( without me sounding too much like a tech geek )..

An electric guitar pickup is made up of a coil of wire that’s wound around a magnet. The magnet then magnetizes the guitar strings. Since the strings are made of steel, a magnetic field from the magnet surrounds the string.

Now, when the string is picked, it vibrates up and down and following it’s motion is the magnetic field. This movement produces a current within the coil and this electrical current produces a signal that goes through your guitar’s circuit board and then to your amplifier. The result is pure music baby!

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This is will be the first in the series of electric guitar effects tutorials, and today we are going to talk about volume swells.

What is it exactly?

Volume swells are an effect used by electric guitar players to create a gradual volume increase, commonly known as a crescendo.

To achieve this effect, a guitarist would hook his pinky finger around one of the volume controls of the guitar. He would then pick a note an roll his pinky to gradually increase the volume from zero.

This effect can also be achieved using a foot pedal that controls the volume. Another effect that is similar called the ” violin ” is achieved by rolling the volume controls back and forth causing a sound similar to a violin being bowed.

Allan Holdsworth pioneered this effect of volume swelling and by using a delay effect pedal he was able to create a lower, thicker more cello-like bass sound.

Using swells can often lead to very emotive sounds which really enhance the electric guitar sound even more.

There are quite a few video tutorials on Youtube that demonstrate this technique. Go see it in action!

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