This month Carl Roa discusses how to incorporate ideas from your favorite guitar players into your own style. In the following video lesson, Carl looks at two of his own early influences, Steve Morse and Yngwie Malmsteen, and uses riffs from his solo recording Eternity and the Magic Elf Heavy Meddle record, to take you through a heavy alternate picking workout.
“It’s important to know where your guitar lives and find sonically where you want to be. There are some tricks on the guitar that will get you there in a hurry”: Joe Bonamassa shows you how to get more tones from your Gibson Les Paul
“Stevie would fill out the sound by combining bluesy licks with chords and rhythmic playing”: How to blend rhythm and lead blues guitar like John Mayer and Stevie Ray Vaughan
