This is a great Joe Bonamassa inspired fast blues lick that sounds great when played at full tempo. It uses both sweep picking and alternate picking and provides a great way to practise this two techniques. The lick comes with a hand written tablature and playing notes.
Level: Intermediate

This lick of the week guitar lesson is a great Slash inspired pentatonic blues lick in E flat minor that epitomizes Slash’s sleazy style of rock blues. This is a great lick to include in your playing and features alternative picking, string bending and hammer-ons and pull-offs.
Level: Intermediate

Episode 3 of lick of the week is a guitar lesson that features a tapping lick in the style of the legendary Eddie Van Halen. This guitar lick is in A minor and features string bending, tapping, hammer-ons and pull-offs with a whammy bar dive at the end.
Level: Intermediate

Episode 4 of lick of the week is a features a guitar lick in the style of Richie Kotzen. This fast bluesy lick uses the E pentatonic scale and features hybrid picking and legato techniques.
Level: Advanced

It’s time to unleash the fury people with this classic Yngwie J Malmsteen inspired guitar lick in the key of A minor. Mike has really gone to town on episode 5 of lick of the week so prepare to be challenged!
Level: Advanced

Paul Gilbert fans are going to love this weeks episode which features a Paul Gilbert inspired tapping lick. The guitar lick is in the key of E minor and is played on one string.
Level: Intermediate

This week’s lick of the week (episode 7) is influenced by Joe Satriani and is very similar to the solo that occurs 1 min and 33 secs into ‘The Mystical Potato Head Groove Thing’ from 1997′s ‘Flying in a Blue Dream’.
Level: Advanced

This week’s episode features a Randy Rhoads inspired guitar lick which features plenty of tapping and a trill very similar to the one in Randy’s Crazy Train solo. Mike has also added some chords at the end of the solo as Randy often used to include these during his solos.
Level: Intermediate

This week’s episode features guitar virtuoso Ivan Mihaljevic. In this episode Ivan teaches a guitar lick taken from a track called Choosh Pies which is on his Destination Unknown album released in 2010
Level: Intermediate

Mike Baugh presents a cracking Steve Vai inspired guitar lick this week! It’s in E and features both alternative picking and some sweep picking. Episode 10 is a must watch for any Steve Vai fan as Mike has done a great job of capturing that classic Steve Vai tone and playing style.
Level: Intermediate

A few of Mike’s students have been requesting a Greg Howe inspired lick recently so we have decided to dedicated episode 11 to this incredible player. The guitar lick features lots of tapping is based off of a D minor arpeggio.
Level: Intermediate – Advanced

Episode 12 of our lick of the week series features a 6 string tapping lick inspired by the legendary Eddie Van Halen. You’ll notice that this guitar lick instantly has that Van Halen trademark sound and is a great way for you to develop your advanced tapping guitar technique.
Level: Intermediate – Advanced

Episode 13 of our lick of the week series is a must watch for any Richie Kotzen fans. We think this guitar lick really captures Richie’s trademark style featuring both fluid sweep picking and legato techniques across 6 strings.
Level: Intermediate

Episode 14 of our lick of the week series features the 1993 winner of Guitarist magazine’s “Guitarist of the Year” competition, Guthrie Govan…
Level: Intermediate

Episode 15 of our lick of the week series features a cool tapping guitar lick in the style of Steve Lukather. It’s in the key of E minor and features alternate picking, string bending and tapping guitar techniques.
Level: Intermediate

Episode 16 of our lick of the week series is another lick in the style of Joe Bonamassa. The lick is in the key of B minor has some sweep picking and features lots of string bends.
Level: Intermediate

Episode 17 is a Paul Gilbert inspired lick in the key of E minor and features alternate picking and string skipping using the pentatonic scale. This is a great exercise to help you build up your alternate picking technique and speed…
Level: Intermediate

Episode 18 of Fretpoint’s lick of the week series features an incredible guitar lick from the opening track ‘Suspension’ on the debut record ‘Sound on Canvas’ by the Dani Vargas Group. In this guest guitar lick of the week, Dani plays through this lick both at full and slow tempos…
Level: Intermediate