As you will find out, arpeggios are truly one of the keys to the kingdom for learning to play wicked sounding electric lead guitar. For the uninitiated, an arpeggio is simply the notes of a chord played separately. However, there are endless ways to use them in cool combinations.      One particular variety of chord or

     Legato technique is essential, and contrary to popular belief, it is not necessarily “easier” just because you don’t have to pick as many notes. The left hand actually has to work harder to get all those hammer ons and pullofs going. This is especially true when transversing from one string to the next.      The following

Check out “Catharsis” — one of my favorite Silvio Gazuez tunes. This is actually the song that caught our attention as “guitar talent scouts”… We noticed the combination of great song writing, strong melodies, and amazing technique with great feel. Should we be surprised that since writing this, Silvio has gone to place at the

Hey guitar friends, I know a lot of you can’t wait to order this package on Tuesday. Well, I have good news. Silvio has agreed to be your personal guitar coach , BUT… Only for the people who order during our ’prelaunch’, and we may have to take the offer off the table if we

Hey friends, Here’s another cool song called “Fight Training”… Silvio tells me its a Greg Howe-inspired tune. It’s pretty intense! On the Virtuoso Guitar Secrets DVDs, we go over many of Silvio’s songs in great depth and analysis. I’ll be posting a sample of that section tomorrow… For now, enjoy watching this: https://www.virtuosoguitarsecrets.com/samples/fight-training.html Claude Johnson

Hello again my guitar friends, First of all, mark your calendars for Tuesday the 30th, at noon EST. That’s when Virtuoso Guitar Secrets will be available. We’ll have some very special offers, prices, and incentives to order, so stay tuned for the details. One of the coolest parts of this DVD series is that Silvio

Hey guys and gals… More lessons coming soon, don’t worry. Tonight I just wanted to post 2 more cool “behind the scenes”, “on the road” videos for you, so you can get more of the “vibe” of us going down to Argentina to film Silvio. The first one starts pretty much when we meet Silvio

Hello… Hope your weekend was good! Mine was very busy – working with my video editor to put the finishing touches on the Virtuoso Guitar Secrets DVD series. You know, when I first talked to Silvio about doing an instructional DVD product, neither of us had a clear picture of what we watned in the

Hey all my guitar friends! Hope you are doing well. We guitarists sure can be critical and opinionated, can’t we? 🙂 Especially when it comes to our favorite players and who deserves to be called a “virtuoso”… But let me introduce a guy who I think really “has the goods”. His name is Silvio Gazquez,