Ben Lindholm

In this tutorial, we will leave triad arpeggios behind for a bit, and focus on licks where the notes are closer together, as well as tap sliding.

In this series of country song lessons, Ben Lindholm will teach you "I Walk The Line" by Johnny Cash. Ben will introduce the song to you, then talk about the tuning, tones, and...

In this tutorial, I will teach you how to tap harmonics, and we will work on three fairly advanced tapping examples over backing tracks. At the end of the tutorial, I included...

In these six lessons, I will talk about the importance of practicing using different styles of picking, and I will show you a few more really useful exercises that will help you...

In this four lesson tutorial, I will explain what alternate picking means, demonstrate and talk about alternate picking technique, then show you two simple exercises to get you...

In this tutorial consisting of 9 lessons, I will get you started with learning your fretboard horizontally, so you know what notes to pick for your tapping licks. We'll start with...

This tutorial will be very beginner friendly. Over the course of seven lessons I will teach you the basic tapping technique, and we'll practice it over a few backing tracks. Let's...

In this tutorial I will teach you 6 more funk licks, this time over a different backing track with swing feel. Make sure you pay special attention to the what the drums and the...

These 16 lessons will teach you easy funk licks in the key of E. The first two lessons prepare you to play the licks and the backing track. The next half-dozen lessons teach you...

Bluegrass Lick Library G2 builds on the Bluegrass Lick Library G1 tutorial. Here I will increase the difficulty a little bit, still keeping it fairly simple as far as bluegrass...

In this first tutorial in my Bluegrass Lick Library series is for the novice guitar player who wants to venture into the land of bluegrass guitar. I will give you nine simple...

In these six lessons, I will introduce you to the concept of two-note chords. Then I will show you a small example song, so you can see how they can be used in a musical context.

In this tutorial I will show you a great chord exercise that I call The All Chords Exercise. The purpose of the exercise is to practice finding all 12 chords of a certain type...

In this second tutorial in my Boom Chick Blues series, we will build upon what we learned in the previous tutorial and take it to the next level. We will add a few licks to the...

In this series of lessons I will teach you a nice way to play unaccompanied blues on just the acoustic guitar. I will show you what to play over the I chord, the IV chord and the...

The lessons in this tutorial are mostly geared towards hard rock, metal and shredding. But I'm sure novice players can pick up a thing or two too.

In these six lessons, I will guide you through a small section of The Swan Lake ballet, adapted for guitar. We will play it in the key of Am to make the fingerings easier. First...

In this tutorial, consisting of eight lessons, I will teach you my rock arrangement of Deck The Halls. Instead of adding extra guitar harmony to add dynamics to this song, like I...

In this tutorial, we will start by learning this recognizable melody, add harmony to it, and finally learn my rock version of the chords. Ideally, you would need three guitars to...

In these lessons I will leave standard power chords behind and show you four types of chords that are just as useful, that you may not have seen before. In the first two examples,...

In this tutorial I will introduce you to a great exercise called The Connecting Game. At the end, I will show you the common chord progressions, and how to apply the exercise to...

In the following 12 lessons, I will show you an example solo, packed with useful ideas that you can adapt and use in your own playing.

In these 15 lessons, we will further build on what we learned in the two previous tutorials. Be aware, this tutorial features riffs that require a lot more from your fretting hand!

In this series of lessons, I will show you ten of my favorite ways to use arpeggios in a musical context. In the first lesson I'll introduce you to the tutorial, and in the...

In this four lesson tutorial, I will explain what alternate picking means, demonstrate and talk about alternate picking technique, then show you two simple exercises to get you...

In this series of lessons, I will show you ten of my favorite ways to use arpeggios in a musical context. In the first lesson I'll introduce you to the tutorial, and in the...

In this series of lessons I will teach you a nice way to play unaccompanied blues on just the acoustic guitar. I will show you what to play over the I chord, the IV chord and the...

If you haven't been playing the guitar for very long, the thought of getting into metal might seem overwhelming. But you can come a long way by learning the basics, which is what...

In these lessons I will leave standard power chords behind and show you four types of chords that are just as useful, that you may not have seen before. In the first two examples,...

In this tutorial I will show you a great chord exercise that I call The All Chords Exercise. The purpose of the exercise is to practice finding all 12 chords of a certain type...

In this series of lessons, I will show you seven of my favorite warm-up exercices, that I pick and choose from when warming up. The first lessons contain exercises that are...

In this first tutorial in my Bluegrass Lick Library series is for the novice guitar player who wants to venture into the land of bluegrass guitar. I will give you nine simple...

In this series of country song lessons, Ben Lindholm will teach you "I Walk The Line" by Johnny Cash. Ben will introduce the song to you, then talk about the tuning, tones, and...

This tutorial will be very beginner friendly. Over the course of seven lessons I will teach you the basic tapping technique, and we'll practice it over a few backing tracks. Let's...

Over the years, Zakk Wylde's style established him as one of metal's pre-eminent guitarists. He's mainly a blues-based pentatonic shredder, and in these six lessons we'll show...

In these six lessons, I will talk about the importance of practicing using different styles of picking, and I will show you a few more really useful exercises that will help you...

In this short tutorial, I will guide you through a couple useful exercises that will help develop your technique. One is a sequence exercise, and the other involves playing a...

In the following 12 lessons, I will show you an example solo, packed with useful ideas that you can adapt and use in your own playing.

In this tutorial, we will leave triad arpeggios behind for a bit, and focus on licks where the notes are closer together, as well as tap sliding.

In the following seven lessons I will show you some of the most common patterns used in the shred guitar style. There's the diatonic scalar approach, a few pentatonic patterns and...

A solid rhythm guitar is key to any song, and this tutorial will give you 9 very good exercises to develop your metal rhythm playing. We will play four 8th note rhythms, and then...

Bluegrass Lick Library G2 builds on the Bluegrass Lick Library G1 tutorial. Here I will increase the difficulty a little bit, still keeping it fairly simple as far as bluegrass...

In this tutorial, I will show you a series of methods that are very useful when it comes to building speed. With each method, I included an example of me playing, so you can see...

In these six lessons, I will introduce you to the concept of two-note chords. Then I will show you a small example song, so you can see how they can be used in a musical context.

In this tutorial I will introduce you to a great exercise called The Connecting Game. At the end, I will show you the common chord progressions, and how to apply the exercise to...

In this ten lesson tutorial, we'll expand on what we learned in Metal for Beginners I. Here I will recap the first tutorial in this series, then I'll talk about alternate picking...

Just like the first tutorial in this series, this one is packed with really good examples of patterns and techniques used by some of the fastest players in the world. We will...

In this second tutorial in my Boom Chick Blues series, we will build upon what we learned in the previous tutorial and take it to the next level. We will add a few licks to the...