The Guitar Channel

Greg Howe - Hammer Ons From Nowhere video

Greg Howe demonstrates his hammer-ons-from-nowhere technique in this video from his GH Workshops online instructional project.

Holdsworth's "Day Of The Dead" solo analyzed

Found this on the Frank Gambale message board - Allan Holdsworth's solo on the Derek Sherinian track "Day Of The Dead" (from Sherinian's Mythology album) is one of my favorite Holdsworth solos in recent years. Guitarist Francesco Artusato has written a fantastic analysis of the solo for the website Guitar Messenger. Working from a transcription by Charlie Shaughnessy, Artusato plays the solo perfectly and breaks down its harmonic and technical aspects. Well worth checking out.

Allan Holdsworth "Day Of The Dead" solo transcription and analysis

Moved my Guitar Licks page

I've changed my Guitar Licks page so it's fully integrated into the site (as opposed to being a stand alone page). The main difference is the notation jpg's are now thumbnails, since the full size pics were too large for the middle column of the site. You can click the notation images to get the full size pic in a pop-up.

Brett Garsed lick transcription

After many moons I have finally posted a new lick on my Guitar Licks page. This time it's a Brett Garsed run I transcribed from his solo on "Kingdom Of Dreams" from the Planet X Quantum album. Check it out.

Brett Garsed lick from "Kingdom Of Dreams"

New Brett Garsed lesson posted

Brett Garsed has posted a new lesson on his website. It's the fourth in a series he is doing for Australian Guitar Magazine. The new lesson is called Scales and Arpeggio's, and has transcriptions and MP3's of all the examples. There's some really nice lines in this lesson too; lots of great hybrid-picking stuff. Definitely check it out.

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Redesigned the guitar licks page

I've done a major redesign of my guitar licks page. Now it's split into 2 frames, and the mp3 samples open in seperate, small windows. I'm not settled on the banner at the top, but it will do for now.

Rich's Guitar Licks

Posted a new guitar lick

I've finally posted a new lick on my Guitar Licks page. This time it's a C minor pentatonic pattern that uses a combination of hybrid-picking, sweep-picking, and legato. Check it out.

Rich's Guitar Licks

Posted a Jimmy Herring lick

I finally posted a new lick on my Guitar Licks page. This time it's a Jimmy Herring lick I transcribed from his solo on "Raging Torrent" from the Project Z album.

Check it out!

New Lick

Posted a new lick today. Check it out.

Updates

Happy Holidays! Added a bluegrass line to the licks page, and some new songs to the Guitar Channel playlist. Enjoy!

New website feature: Guitar Lick's

I know a lot of the people who visit this site are guitar players, so I've decided to post some original guitar licks. They will be located on a seperate page, linked to from the "Guitar Lick's" section of this page. I was going to call it "Lick of the Week", but I probably won't be able to post that often. Most of the lick's I post will be my own, but I may post some that I've transcribed from other players. The lick's will be shown in both standard notation and tablature. Each lick will have sound clips of me playing the lick slow, then fast. I think I'll just keep adding the new lick's to the same page, so everything will be archived in one spot. I have no idea how many lick's I will post, but it won't go on forever (my free time is very scarce).

Click here to go right to the lick's page.