We will study a guitar solo inspired in Paul Gilbert, Steve Vai, Van Halen and others. It contains a lot of legatos, tapping and pinch harmonics.

Essential tools for modern metal soloing. Stripped-down to an easier format.

Let's roll up our sleeves and start applying micro techniques to our playing.

This is pretty technical despite the absence of very fast licks. This lesson is not meant to include differents techniques such as sweep/tapp/legato, it has more the intention to do something colorful.

Classic pedal steel for guitar

This lesson covers both rhythm and lead parts for a small phrygian dominan-driven composition that is nicely suited for metal. Check out the riff and the lead ideas that you can use with your metal chops easily.

This lesson is a solo in the style of power metal bands like Angra, Gamma Ray, Stratovarius, and others. It begins with a nice minor scale melody and then you have a very speed alternate picking part that includes some licks in the style of Yngwie Malmsteen.

The most important guitar techniques - all covered in one amazing solo!

As you may know, Howe is a great rock fusion guitarist, he has got many technical resources: legato, sweep picking, tapping, alternate picking and an extensive musical vocabulary.