Billy Connally's Guitar Lessons

Billy Connally

Billy Connally is a prog metal instrumental rock player from the San Francisco Bay Area. His debut tutorial for Guitar Tricks is on Drop C tuning. Look to his catalog for all things metal, prog, and instrumental rock!

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Cold Hard Bitch Jet

In this song tutorial, Billy Connally will be teaching you the heavy, AC/DC influenced rocker "Cold Hard Bitch", as made famous by Jet. Billy will get into the intro riff, the verses and choruses with the hard-hitting rhythm accents, the open chords in the bridge, an intro variation, then take it out with a play-along.

Published: 04/05/2011 Upgrade

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Billy Connally
An Introduction to Drop C Tuning

In this tutorial, we'll introduce you to drop C tuning. This tuning is used by many metal artists, as it is a full two whole steps down from the standard tuning and gives a powerful, deep sound to your guitar. We'll look at how to tune this way, some chords and shapes you can use, and play an example progression.

Published: 10/06/2010 Upgrade