Florian Lettner

Wes Borland created riffs full of high energy and drive that kept fans pumped up for more than a decade. Find out what you can learn from his style.

In this tutorial, we break down the fast opening two-handed tapped riff and the arpeggios of Van Halen's song Hot for Teacher.

Eddie Van Halen is one of the most influential guitarists in the world. To celebrate his birthday, we'll reveal a few things about his success.

Modes are alternative tonalities or scales. In this article, we'll explain how you can use them to invoke different feelings and emotions when writing songs.

Nobody rocks the Gibson Les Paul like Zakk Wylde. Find out why Zakk started to learn guitar and how he structures his practice routines.

Richie Sambora is responsible for writing some of the best-known rock songs of the past 30 years, check out the intro of his first number one hit!

You probably did not know, but there's a surprising number of ways to spice up your 12-bar blues. In this post, we show you how to get the blues.

Bullet for my Valentine is probably one of the most trending metal bands. This week we show you how to play the solo of their song A Place Where You Belong.

No band exemplifies rock'n'roll quite like AC/DC. Thus we show you how rock legend Angus Young plays a lick of their song You Shook Me All Night Long.

In this week's lick, we show you how B.B. King uses the pentatonic scale for his solo in The Thrill is Gone.

In this week's lick, we show you how Dave Mustaine from Megadeth uses the pentatonic scale for one of his solos in Peace Sells.

Learning scales is great but you have to learn licks to learn lead. This week, we show you how Slash from Guns'n'Roses uses plays Knockin on Heaven's Door.

The minor pentatonic scale is probably the most-used and most-heard scale in the guitar world. Find out how to boost your lead lines efficiently.

Having your fret hand in the correct position helps you to avoid fatigue, allowing you to play your guitar faster without any disturbing background noise.