School project, need help/advice

Hey I have a project due in a couple of weeks, I'm supposed to demonstrate how to play a musical instrument. I'm in college.

Right now I'm intermediate leaning towards advanced. All I want to do is show how to do basic things on the guitar. I have no problem doing that, but the students may expect me to know how to play more advanced things on the guitar. I don't want to look like a total newbie, and I want some stuff to show off. I see on the advanced+ tutorials, scales, sweeps, and different licks. And then I see videos on youtube, etc. of people shredding across the entire neck. I just want to make the presentation look good and I want to play better while doing some cool advanced stuff.

Do you have any advice on what videos to watch or what to learn?

Learning a badass version of the Star Spangled Banner will always please the people, make sure to include some halen and hendrix licks in it.

hey thanks man, that's a cool idea.
But I don't get it, how do those guys learn the shred on the guitar like that. Do they just practice the scale a thousand times? I practice the scales again and again but I think I'm just doing something wrong.

Yea, the best way to get up to speed is playing scales and licks and gradually building up speed. The only problem with that is that playing scales over and over again gets boring, so make sure you mix scales up with regular playing, and make sure you get warmed up before practicing. A great way to build speed and get your fingers and hands moving freely is Flight of the Bumble Bee:

e-------------------------------------------------|
b---5----------6-5---5-----------------5----------|
g-----8-7-6-5------8---8-7-6-5-6-7-8-------------|
d--------------------------------------------------|
a--------------------------------------------------|
E--------------------------------------------------|

Start this of slow, it seems a little tricky at first, but once you get the fingering down, you start playing it faster and faster as the weeks go by. Whats cool about this is that you keep your hand in the same position the whole time, and each finger is used on only one fret (so keep your finger on the 5, middle on the 6 and ect.)

So try that out, and move it up and down the neck on the same strings, I like to go back and fourth between the 5th and 10t fret.

Thats another thing, people always get a chuckle when you play known classical songs on the electric fully distorted.

what scales and licks should i start out with learning? can u plz link to the video lesson?

Just browse around the lessons, look for stuff that sounds cool, not worth learning something thaty doesn't sounds good to your own ear.