Kevin Taylor

This tutorial covers the details of how to play various minor chords. The chords Am through Gm are covered in detail as well as alternative fingerings that can be used. An...

This tutorial will first guide you through the basics of palm muting, followed by some simple one and two finger chords to help you practice. As you progress further into the...

Learning to use simple chords and by moving a few fingers, coming up with brand new chords.

The lead from this lesson was actually used at the beginning of a song called "Bye" on PhaseIV Chronicles by Schmange.

This is a basic tapping exercise that can be done on 2 adjacent strings.

Bending is a basic technique used in many styles of music. This tutorial will show you practical application of bends in Rock music.

Open tuning is when you tune all the strings so that they make a simple major or minor chord. The most popular open tuning is open G (which is also the most popular tuning for 5...

By simply moving beyond some of the basic major chords, to other shapes that aren't really much more difficult to play, simple songs can take on an added dimension by adding...

This is a tutorial covering sixteen different chords that sound especially good when played on an acoustic guitar. By themselves, they may sound a little unusual but if used with...

The next step for beginner guitar players after learning the basic open major and minor chords, is to move on to sevenths. There are sometimes several ways in which to finger a...

This is a tutorial covering some of the basic lead techniques used on the guitar to make your playing sound more musical. Topics covered in this tutorial include: Bends, Slides,...

This tutorial will show you how to play the open chord for A B C D E F and G. Each chord will be covered in it's own lesson.

This tutorial will teach you the basics of strumming. I will show downstrokes, upstrokes and how to alternate between both of them.

In this tutorial I will explain what a barre chord is and demonstrate some of the different shapes. We will cover both E and A major and minor barre chord shapes.

This tutorial covers all the basic major chords. Most of these are usually called the "open chord" shapes because of the use of open strings.

This tutorial is a series covering different harmonics techniques. I'll cover natural to pinched to tapped harmonics ... and more.

This tutorial will show you how 7 different scales can be used to create solos over a backing track. All scales are explained separately in a 3 notes per strings arrangement. You...

This is the fourth part of my tutorial on tapping techniques. In this one we will add slides, bends and hammer-ons to our tapping techniques.

This is the third part of my tutorial on tapping techniques. This part will cover pinky exercises, octave tapping, pentatonic alternates, string skipping and lots of riffs for you...

This is the second part of my tutorial on tapping techniques. This part will cover two strings tapping and multi-finger techniques.

In this tutorial I'll be going through all the techniques involved in two-handed tapping on the guitar.... right from the very basics all the way up to using all the fingers of...

This tutorial will teach you the basics of strumming. I will show downstrokes, upstrokes and how to alternate between both of them.

This is a tutorial covering sixteen different chords that sound especially good when played on an acoustic guitar. By themselves, they may sound a little unusual but if used with...

The lead from this lesson was actually used at the beginning of a song called "Bye" on PhaseIV Chronicles by Schmange.

By simply moving beyond some of the basic major chords, to other shapes that aren't really much more difficult to play, simple songs can take on an added dimension by adding...

This tutorial will show you how to play the open chord for A B C D E F and G. Each chord will be covered in it's own lesson.

The next step for beginner guitar players after learning the basic open major and minor chords, is to move on to sevenths. There are sometimes several ways in which to finger a...

In this tutorial I will explain what a barre chord is and demonstrate some of the different shapes. We will cover both E and A major and minor barre chord shapes.

This tutorial will first guide you through the basics of palm muting, followed by some simple one and two finger chords to help you practice. As you progress further into the...

This is a basic tapping exercise that can be done on 2 adjacent strings.

This tutorial covers all the basic major chords. Most of these are usually called the "open chord" shapes because of the use of open strings.

Open tuning is when you tune all the strings so that they make a simple major or minor chord. The most popular open tuning is open G (which is also the most popular tuning for 5...

This tutorial covers the details of how to play various minor chords. The chords Am through Gm are covered in detail as well as alternative fingerings that can be used. An...

Two handed tapping....youstart on fret 15 & tap using your index finger then pull, pull, slide...repeat. When you get down to the 5th fret, switch to the G string by...

You begin this one by plucking and then bending a note up wards on the G string (using either a pick, your tapping finger or even your thumbnail) at the 7th fret. Bend down...

This song is also listed under the name "Muted Chording" that I posted earlier & more recently as "FabGirl". The same notation tab is below but the sound file has been...

Following along in the same vein as the "Anatomy of a Multitrack" tutorial series, this one is yet another mutlitrack utilizing various loops, synths and guitars to come up with a...

This one has a fairly easy guitar part. Most of the work went into coming up with the drum and synth parts and the guitar was added mostly to fill in the blanks and add some...

The guitar part is simple open chords (shown above) played through a multi effects unit with lots of chorus, reverb, compression and a guitar synth playing a half dozen...

Three simple chords for this one. The above image shows the chords for the acoustic guitar. Below are the chords for the electric. Recording Info: Did a HD search for...

Some simple chords again to illustrate how easy it is to lay down a stereo recording with minimal equipment. From here it's easy to add some vocals or a guitar lead to fill...

Recording info: I think I had the movie Matrix Reloaded in mind when doing this. The main overdrive guitar part that repeats throughout the song is done on 4 stereo tracks. ...

I guess I was still kinda in "alien-future" mode so I went back to doing the sci-fi soundtrack stuff again. As usual, I started with absolutely no idea how the tune was gonna...

Ok, no tab for this one 'cause it's based on simple major chords (E, C, D, B). I'm mainly doing this one to illustrate the use of VST plugins when using digital recording...

This song was mostly composed on guitarsynth. The guitar part was done using an overdrive guitar patch and the notation tab for it is below. This one is fairly simple to play but...

This particular one is composed in E and will let you play along using anything from a regular old pentatonic rock scale, to the 3 note per string scales found elsewhere on my...

This is an alternate way of playing a D Major chord instead of barring all the strings at the 7th fret. Place the first finger on the second fret, 3rd string. Place the second...

In this first step, we'll cover how to actually tune your guitar to an Open G The easiest way to do open G tuning is to: 1) Tune the 6th string (bottom E) down by two...

The idea behind this lesson is to take some simple chords: (simple to play... not necessarily simple to pronounce) Asus2 A minor A7sus Fmaj7b5 Fmaj7 E7 A add...

Quite a few people have written in, asking if there are any easy ways to switch between chords that involve the F Major chord. The F Major chord is probably one of the more...

Is it possible to do full bends using an acoustic guitar? This question was posted recently in the forum area. Apparently, the person in question was attempting to do full...

This is a basic 'disco' type of backbeat using the Jam player for practicing scales or leads in those keys. A good place to start is to transpose the '3 Notes Per String' scales...

This is a piece of music that is looped in the Jam section for you to practice to. The tune is written in the key of D, so just about any pentatonic (or rock type) scale should...

This is a little riff I use sometimes. Mostly when I'm playing something in A, but you can transpose it just about anywhere. The video explains it best.

This tune is available as a loop in the Guitar Tricks Jam Station. It's in the Rock Section and named "Villain". It can can be used for practicing minor scales over. The...

This little ditty can be used to either practice scales or practice using Add 9 chords. This tune is available as a loop in the Guitar Tricks Jam Station. It's in the Rock...

A simple little funk jam that can be used to practice scales and riffs over. This tune is available as a loop in the Guitar Tricks Jam Station. It's in the Funk Section and...