Now you're ready to step up and take over! We've muted the guitar audio here so you can play the song yourself along with the rhythm section.

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 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...

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...

Kinda cheesy sounding but decent to practice scales over. :) There's a background strumming pattern and a simple scale illustrated here. This tune is available as a loop in the...

A rockin' yello type loop to practice scales and leads over. The bass/guitar run is tabbed out below, and the chords used are at the top of the page. This tune is available as a...

A simple tune for you to practice scales and leads with. It's in D minor and goes up the fretboard. This tune is available as a loop in the Guitar Tricks Jam Station. It's in...

A simple looped tune to practice scales and riffs over. This is a variation of "Pulse Code 1" and includes an additional bass track. It is also available as a loop in the Guitar...

Hard to do at first, but easy once you get used to it. This one is available as a loop in the Guitar Tricks Jam Station. It's in the Rock Section named "Fast Riff in A".

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 riff was created for GuitarWar as a riff battle. I had to draw a monster of GuitarWar and pretty much lost the war. Even if this didn't won the competition, it's still one of...

I can't tell you how many times I've played over this one. Not a lot of you may recall this but there was once an attempt in the forum to do little solos competition. It never...

This one illustrates two things: Playing beginner octaves. Muting unplayed strings. Use the notation tab below and the LoFi MP3 and it's pretty easy to figure out. ...

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...

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...

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. ...

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...

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...

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...

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...

This is an example of a melodic minor scale. I'm the wrong guy to ask about major details on theory but basically from what I hear on the grapevine, there are seven modes of...

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...