New Tracks And Lessons:

Twisted Sister, Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers, Alice Cooper and a New Lesson 'Learn To Play Guitar Solos'.

Twisted Sister - Stay Hungry

Cover:   I Wanna Rock From the album 'Stay Hungry', "I Wanna Rock" was one of Twisted Sisters biggest hits and is still making people wanna rock. It has been featured in numerous films, TV, and video games like 'Guitar Hero'. Guitarist Jay Jay French made a political song supporting Barack Obama titled "I Want Barack" to the tune of this song.

Lesson:   Learn To Play Guitar Solos Ok, so you got your basic chords down, you can hold a bar chord and someone showed you a blues scale. But what do you do with it? You want to learn how to solo but playing a blues scale up and down doesn't sound like a solo. When you plug in your distortion pedal, it sounds even worse! What you need are some basic licks and patterns that can get you started and make you sound like a pro, or at least make you sound like you know what you are doing. Try these examples, they will help bring out the inner guitar god that is inside of you.

Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers - Damn the Torpedoes

Cover:   Refugee From their first Top 10 album, which quickly went platinum, 'Damn The Torpedoes' garnered both commercial and critical acclaim. "Refugee", the second single, peaked at #15 on the singles chart, and was ubiquitous for most of 1980. The combination of Petty's gutsy vocal, Mike Campbell's raw, signature guitar, and Benmont Tench's punchy-yet-haunting keyboard riff hit a bulls eye.

Alice Cooper - Killer

Cover:   Under My Wheels This take-no-prisoners, hard rock classic from the 'Killer' album is one of Alice Cooper's best (it also appears on the group's Greatest Hits collection). With it's energetic, tension filled melody and riffs, and a campy lyric oozing with a twisted sense of humor, it's quintessential Alice Cooper.