Jon Broderick

In this tutorial you will learn how to read guitar tablature, or tab.

In this tutorial you will learn how to read guitar tablature, or tab.

Here's a riff from Stevie Ray Vaughan that I learned about six weeks ago. I didn't think much of the riff at the time, but I play it every time I pick up the guitar these...

This is a nice easy trick. Stevie Ray Vaughan does this sort of trick quite often. In fact, SRV uses a lot of the same tricks that are on this site. Of course, it's not just what...

Here's some more B.B. King style soloing. It is based on the fifth position of the extended pentatonic scale mixed in with the major pentatonic in the regular (first)...

I have been having a lot of fun listening to B.B King lately. His playing is so melodic, it sounds so good. "How does he do that?" I ask myself. He is using the same...

Here's a trick from B.B. King. It is based on the fifth position of the extended pentatonic scale mixed in with the major pentatonic in the regular (first) position. ...

I still haven't tuned my guitar back to normal after tuning it to A major last week. Here I'm using the bottleneck slide (which I rarely do) to play a standard "I IV V" blues ...

Pick up your guitar, put it on your right knee with the knee in the curve of the bottom of the guitar, grab the neck with your left hand, and...

Left Hand First Now, you are going to play your first two-handed note. What you want to do is press down on the fretboard just behind the fret. The fret is the metal thing...

Well, back in the 80s we didn\'t do so many guitar solos in \"Alternative\" music as we do now. We didn\'t call it \"Alternative\" either, but that is another topic. Anyway,...

This is a chord trick in A minor. It is especially useful as a pinky finger exercise. The idea is to leave the barre chord in place (leave the index finger laying across the 5th...

Magnus came out to visit here in the San Francisco bay area. He asked me to give him a lesson. Now, I have been playing guitar for 25 years, but Magnus practices much more than...

I was having so much fun with Al Gendron's January 25th Trick of the Week that I wrote one of my own using the same tuning but no slide. It reminds me of a Led Zeppelin...

This lesson is based on the C major chord. The most common chord trick for the C chord is hammering and pulling off on the D and G strings with your second finger while...

This is a technique that is common in metal rock and spanish styles. It sounds like a horse galloping. Your ability to play it depends on your skill at alternate picking. If...

This is a simple funk pattern that you can play when you don't know the song you are playing (like when sitting in with another band). First, you figure out what key you are in,...

This is a country style trick based on the extended version of the major pentatonic scale. The major pentatonic generally sounds more "light" or "country" than the minor...

This is an example of a type of trick called a "walking bass line." The trick is usually placed at the transition between two sections of a song. For instance, you could play...