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http://www.guitarspeedsecret.com has the ebook The Essential Guide To Guitar Virtuosity, which is a book that has been written to help beginning and intermediate guitar players get over the hurdle of developing technique. Tapping, Sweep picking, Alternate picking, Legato, Economy picking, and a lot of other techniques is contained within the book.

Learn how to play insanely fast on the guitar, whether is Sweep picking, Tapping, Legato, or Economy Picking - its all here. http://www.guitarspeedsecret.com

In this video I'll break down the different parts of Cmetery Gates, the infamous Pantera song. It has a fantastic chord structure and is a true metal classic. The tabs can be found at http://www.guitarticles.blogspot.com

An exercise that I have been building upon for years. This will help improve picking and fretting hand+picking hand coordination. The tablature for this and all other exercises is at http://www.guitarticles.blogspot.com

This exercise is ideal for training the picking hand. It combines straight forward alternate picking, reverse picking, string skipping and a bit or raking at the end. http://www.guitarticles.blogspot.com

A scale that is widely used in just about any style of music. It is mostly used in The Blues, but is also used in Jazz, Rock, Metal, Latin, Funk, just about anything you imagine. http://www.guitarticles.blogspot.com

In this video we'll take a lot at the Lydian mode, a very diverse series of notes that can tip the hat of musical creation in your favor. http://www.guitarticles.blogspot.com

The tabs for this are at www.guitarticles.blogspot.com. Look for the link that shares the same name as this video.

An experiment. Experiments are fun.

A common trick used by many classical guitarists to create any harmonic that they want, but this technique can also be used on electrics, clean or distorted.

In this video we'll take a look at the Phrygian mode which works nicely over Jazz and Metal.

The Dorian mode which can used in a lot of different genres of music. Some examples may be Jazz, Latin, Rock and Blues.

A very simple exercise that can be used, both as a speed builder and a general method for warming up. I use it everyday. http://www.guitarticles.blogspot.com

In this video we'll take a look at how to create a pinch harmonic, and how to get the best sounding pinch harmonics.

A difficult trick yet it can be done. In my younger days I used to do pinch harmonic chords (3 notes or more), but don't use it much in my playing anymore, so I thought that I would open up my bag of goodies and share them with someone who might get a kick out of it.

This is an exercise that I developed to better train the picking hand, but I knew that if I was going to devise and exercise that was meant to do this, that it would also have to be attractive sounding. Why? Because general exercises cause the learning guitarists to speed up, when they are not prepared for certain speeds. However, if something sounds good, then it will sound good even at slow speeds, so they won't care how fast they are playing it and will really take the time to get it down. I'm not sure how you would classify this exercise but it certainly has a dreamlike structure to it. Almost a Fantasia. Anyways, check it out and the tablature is at http://www.guitarticles.blogspot.com

This is a very typical blues chord progression, but it is a great introductory to improvising AND it is very customizable.