Rock Guitar Elements
Rock players won't want to miss this five-video guitar lesson course on all things rock guitar. Instructors Troy Stetina, Doug Boduch, and Wolf Marshall will arm you with tons of skills and techniques you'll need to play some of the biggest rock hits of all time. You'll learn dozens of licks and riffs in the style of artists like Led Zeppelin, Van Halen, AC/DC, Jimi Hendrix, and more, all while expanding your repertoire of must-know rock guitarisms.
Videos
• Power Chords (08:28) - Learn all about one of rock guitar's most integral musical devices: the power chord. You'll learn all about their construction, how to play them in various positions (open and moveable), and how to use them in some killer riffs in the style of AC/DC, Black Sabbath, Led Zeppelin, and more.
• Rock Licks (07:49) - In this lesson, you'll explore many of the ideas and techniques that are common in countless favorite guitar solos and fills over the years, including scales (minor pentatonic/blues scale, major pentatonic, Dorian, natural minor), double stops, string bending (unison bends, etc.), repetition, open-string pull-offs, alternate picking, and others.
• Rock Phrasing (07:32) - Get a grasp of some important, effective strategies for phrasing in a rock lead, all of which can be used by themselves or in combination with others. Instructor Wolf Marshall will demonstrate crucial concepts like rhythmic devices (repetition, etc.), defining form with space, motific development, crossing the bar line, and uneven rhythmic groupings.
• Rock Rhythm Guitar (09:41) - On this tour of rhythm guitar throughout rock's history, you'll get all kinds of integral techniques under your fingers, such as boogie patterns, chord riffs, R&B/Jimi Hendrix-style riffs, Keith Richards-style chord embellishments, suspended and add chords, pedal tones, modal mixture, and palm muting.
• Repeating Licks (07:22) - In this lesson, learn how to drive your audience into a frenzy with various ways of incorporating repeating licks into your solos.