Lessons Quick Lick: Beastie Boys "Sabotage" Video Lesson (Bass Riff) Tuition By Matt Scharfglass published 28 August 2009 Get The Pick NewsletterAll the latest guitar news, interviews, lessons, reviews, deals and more, direct to your inbox!Contact me with news and offers from other Future brandsReceive email from us on behalf of our trusted partners or sponsors Matt ScharfglassSocial Links Navigation More about lessons How to weave crosspicking and Carter picking into your acoustic guitar playing “There are so many sounds to be discovered when you get away from using a pick”: Jared James Nichols shows you how to add “snap, crackle and pop” to your playing with banjo rolls and string snaps Latest “These measures threaten the economic and cultural impact of U.S.-made musical instruments”: NAMM president responds to Trump's tariffs – urgently urging the administration to exempt the musical instrument market See more latest Most Popular How to weave crosspicking and Carter picking into your acoustic guitar playing “There are so many sounds to be discovered when you get away from using a pick”: Jared James Nichols shows you how to add “snap, crackle and pop” to your playing with banjo rolls and string snaps Don't let chord inversions bamboozle you. It's simply the case of shuffling the notes around How to play slap bass: an essential guide to slapping and popping Bass chords: shapes that work on bass guitar – and go beyond the power chord Joni Mitchell described it as ‘fly fishing’ and Jeff Beck was a master of the craft – learn how to use volume swells like guitar legends Eddie Van Halen, Allan Holdsworth and Larry Carlton How to find new approaches to blues soloing – using fingerstyle improv ideas and Roy Buchanan-inspired licks Want to play Master of Puppets the right way? Here's how to get faster at downpicking so you can chug like James Hetfield “The intensity of Rory’s guitar playing – the emotion, the sound and his incredible attack – was mindblowing for me”: Joe Bonamassa pays tribute to the late, great Irish blues-rock icon Rory Gallagher “For some players, their approach to rhythm guitar is, ‘Oh, someone else gets to do all of the fun stuff while I do this…’” Think playing rhythm guitar is boring? Cory Wong is here to change your mind MORE FROM GUITARWORLD...1NAMM president responds to Trump's tariffs – urgently urging the administration to exempt the musical instrument market2With three Grammy wins and plaudits from John Mayer, Justus West is one of modern session guitar’s MVPs – but it hasn’t been an easy ride3How to weave crosspicking and Carter picking into your acoustic guitar playing 4This metal fan ordered a new guitar from Sweetwater – but it ended up with the Slipknot guitarist5Eddie Van Halen's former wife, Valerie Bertinelli, rules out Van Halen biopic
![Joe Bonamassa [left] wears a deep blue suit and polka-dotted shirt and plays his green refin Strat; the late Irish blues legend Rory Gallagher [right] screams and inflicts some punishment on his heavily worn number one Stratocaster.](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/cw28h7UBcTVfTLs7p7eiLe-840-80.jpg.webp)
