You can find more lessons like this one at the Rock House Method web site.

• 10. Intermediate Rhythm Guitar Lesson – Explore some of the many different rhythym techniques and styles.
• 9. Finger Building Exercises for Guitar – A lesson to build up your little piggies.
• 8. Basic Rhythym Techniques for Guitar – Rhythyms that are standard popular progressions to get you started.
• 7. Hands of Steel Workout Routine – This is routine #3 from The Hands of Steel DVD presented by John McCarthy
• 6. 12 Bar Blues Progression Guitar Lesson – Dive into some basic fretboard visualization and 12 bar blues progressions.
• 5. Fingerpicking 101 Guitar Lesson – Tackling the basics of fingerpicking.
• 4. Alexi Laiho Video Lesson – Alexi shows how to create a great metal rhythm beat from The Children of Bodoms song “Living Dead”
• 3. Developing a Shred Picking Technique – This lesson not only applies to you metal lovers because It doesn’t matter what style of music you want to pursue, picking is an essential part of any guitar players technique.
• 2. Alexi Laiho Video Lesson – Alexi Laiho how to make a Single Note Riff Into A Heavy Rhythm.
• 1. 20 Songs Every Beginner Guitarist Shoud Know – The boys from Rock House put their thinking caps on and compiled a list of easy to learn songs that will challenge you but not make you want to throw your guitar in the fireplace.

Rock House creates the Rock House Method instructional DVD’s. You can find out more about their DVD’s here.

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In Level 1, students learn the single note riffs Alexi uses to create songs and his favorite scales used to create his signature melodic and shredding leads. He also shares his personal tricks for speed, sweep picking, pivoting and pick harmonics. He reveals the chord voicings he uses to create his powerful guitar progressions and a whole lot more! In Level 2, Alexi continues to encourage students to push the limits of speed and technique. He walks them step-by-step through many of his leads and teaches his mastery of five and six string arpeggios, string skipping arpeggios, chromatic scale patterns and more. Here’s a sample video from the DVD series:

For a limited time, Rock House is offering a pre-sale special, that includes both instructional DVDs, and the new CD by Children of Bodom called ‘Blooddrunk’. You can save as much as $18 when purchasing this combo pack though Rock House. This special sale is being offered until April 30, 2008. Click here to order now.

You can join the chat from here at 10pm EST on Thursday. February 21.

Good luck!

I’m accepting all levels of ability, from beginner to advanced. If you want to learn how to shred, flamenco finger picking or just your basic scales, contact me if you can get to New Jersey. Lessons will be available starting January 22nd and go practically everyday until the end of March when I go back on tour

Besides being a great shredder, Marc is also a really good flamenco player. Here’s a video of some of this Flamenco work:

So if you are going to be in the area, you may want to inquire about some lessons. You can find out more on his Myspace page.

Here is a list of the upcoming chats. These chats are free to registered users:

• John McCarthy, Guitarist: Thursday January 3, 2008- 9-10:00pm EST
• Chris McCarvill, Bassist: Thursday January 10, 2008, 9-10:00pm EST
• Marc Rizzo, Guitarist in Soulfly: Tuesday February 6, 2008 9-10:00pm, EST
• Rob Turner, President EMG Pickups: Friday February 21, 2008 10-11:00pm EST
• David Ellefson, Legendary Metal Bassist: Wednesday March 19, 2008, 9-10:00pm EST

Additional chats will be added in the coming weeks, so be sure to check the Rock House site for additions and more information.

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If you’re not familiar with Rock House, they produce instructional books and DVD’s that provide accelerated guitar courses that are very easy to follow.

Here’s a video excerpt from the Rock House DVD Learn Rock Guitar (Beginner).

You can browse the Rock House catalog here. Anyone who buys a Rock House product has full access to their web site, where they offer 24X7 lesson support and access to a growing community of musicians.

Although their blog just went online this week, it has some pretty cool info. Click here to check it out.

This clip is called ‘Metal Chords & Inversions’ from the Metal Guitar (Advanced): Modern,Speed & Shred DVD.

I especially like the 3rd chord. It’s a B5 chord, which is inverted by using the low F# as the bass note, which is the octave of the 5th. It looks like this:

Check out the Chord Construction and Power Chords lessons on this site for more information on building chords. You can find other DVD’s from Rock House here.