In this lesson we will look at some interesting neo-classical ideas that made Yngwie Malmsteen Popular. Even though he can be slightly over-the-top, he is still a fantastic and popular player. Even if this style of music isnt your thing, a lot can be learned, and applied to other styles.

In this short lesson, we'll look at the basic blues shuffle. The first step in learning the shuffle is getting familiar with the "swing" type of feel that is inherent to what they call the shuffle feel. Instead of playing straight 8th notes on an even pattern, every second 8th note is delayed, giving it more of a triplet feel. Straight eights are widely used in Rock music, but rarely in the blues.

This short lesson will cover a technique called palm muting. This is what gives you that fat chunking sound, as heard in most if not all rock and metal tunes. It is simple and only takes one hand to learn. First you want to get tuned up and you can so so from the main menu! Now kick on the distortion pedal and here we go.

In Blues Music the most popular scales by far is the Minor Pentatonic, Minor Blues Pentatonic and the Mixolydian Mode. If your playing in the key of C for example you would play your blues solos in A minor pentatonic, Blues pentatonic. A minor is the 6th chord in the key of C and works well playing over all the chords in that key.