The Alegria belongs to the "cantinas" group. It is a "gaditan" style, precedent from Cadiz and the Bahia's ports. It first was born as dance music.

Adding guitar to an already well composed piece of music can be tricky. This lesson will take you through the process of adding some guitar parts to rich and dense music without overdoing it.

Rock riffs that demonstrate rock guitar arranging skills of rock heroes for the 80's.

Step by step through a song arrangement,lyrics and vocal melody construction.

Today we have a clean rock song recorded with acoustic guitar, using Minor Aeolian Scale. This scale has a sad and dark sound and is very used in different styles like Rock, Heavy Metal, and mostly in ballads.

In this lesson I covered the style of Mudhoney, an alternative band formed in 1988.

Inspired by their compositions and guitar arrangements.

The great alternative indie rock band called Cage The Elephant.

A power metal rhythm lesson inspired in the style of Angra, Stratovarius, Rhapsody of Fire and Sonata Arctica. When I finished the guitar work I recorded some orchestra arrangements based in a style created by the band Rhapsody of Fire called "Hollywood Metal".