Rock Guitar Lessons & Courses

The pentatonic box is the guitarist’s proverbial “blessing and curse.” For guitar players, the initial discovery of the box parallels Edison’s eureka moment with the light bulb. But the box soon becomes a prison, restricting players from venturing outside, which…

Eric Haugen’s Guitar Zen provides an ideal framework to bridge practice and play. The CAGED system clearly maps chord shapes and chord tones, all over the fretboard, to intuitively guide your rhythm playing, fills, and improvised solos, in any key.…

When listening to the solos and lead lines of history's great rock guitar players, it can be overwhelming to figure out where to start! At the core of all of these great rock guitarists' playing is a large repertoire of…

Been jamming for a while and looking to spice up your rock playing? Mark Kroos invites you to get these 30 show-stopping rock licks under your fingers! He'll guide you through a host of useful techniques and tools to help…

30 Savage Rock Licks You Must Know is a collection of 30 fast and shred based licks that fit easily into many rock genres. The licks span sub-genre's of rock from plus to metal and feature techniques like sweeping and…

Rock, Pop and genres bent from it are punctuated by signature licks, riffs and rhythmic ideas. William Roberts dissects these sounds and ideas and parleys them into this vocabulary pack. Drop these licks and riffs directly into your lead playing,…

Irene lays the foundation for melodic rock playing with a primer on scale tone basics, triads and melodic fills.. then provides an in-depth look at how to apply these principles with rock-solid technique, articulation and phrasing. This lays the bedrock…

Ever wonder why you can't quite sound like pros when playing from tabs? In this course, Tony Martinez will cover a modern approach to the blues rock style, played with gain, attitude, and intense energy. Tony will cover techniques from…

Join John Shannon as he takes a look at some advanced rhythm guitar techniques designed to turn you into a great rock rhythm guitar player.

This course features 15 rock songs that are exclusive to JamPlay. Each song will be broken down into rhythm and melody and then dissected in great depth. Beyond that, you will learn how to improvise over JamTracks, write creative melodies…

Rock guitarist John Shannon takes you on a journey to improve your rhythm playing.

Join Dave Isaacs for a comprehensive course covering some of the most well-known sounds of the last 50 years in guitar playing. Come straight out of Isaac's Phase 1 series and learn songs in the style of The Beatles, Rolling…

Learn the styles of Carl Perkins, Elvis Presley, Gene Vincent and more! Join Stuart Ziff in a comprehensive study and application of Rockabilly guitar. Learn with real musical examples and composed material that, with some hard work and dedication, will…

Brendan teaches a series of lessons designed for the rock player to get their heads and fingers around playing in a jazz blues style. He covers the basics of the 12 bar blues and discusses how the rock player can…

Will Ripley picks up where he left off in his Phase 1 Beginner series with this series: Classic Rock Guitar. Through original tracks in the styles of great artitsts that Will has prepared for this series, you will learn all…

Learn a full progressive rock solo lick by lick in this series of lessons. Each lesson teaches a lick from the solo, or an alternative lick that can be played over the progression, and a variety of different skills and…

Learn an entire guitar solo inspired by such greats as Joe Satriani and Steve Vai. Although you’ll learn the solo lick by lick, each lesson also serves as an in-depth study in technique, music theory and songwriting perspective.

Using her own songs and recordings as examples, Lauren teaches us that it's not what you know, but instead how you USE what you know. This series covers tons of great chord voicing ideas, arranging tips, and production techniques as…

Matt Brown offers up 14 lessons in the realm of rock and roll. This series begins with lesson on proper practicing and scale theory basics, then moves into advanced playing applications such as soloing, improvisation and more.

With over 50 lessons and 15 hours of instruction, Brad Henecke brings you the biggest and most comprehensive lesson series at JamPlay. This series begins by reviewing basic concepts, then progressing to advanced rock technique, scale applications, chord progressions and…

If you like instrumental rock guitar, this series is for you. This series covers three on a string scales, melodic invention, the CAGED system, modes and implementation and Arpeggios. Chris will demonstrate all the things that help you phrase and…

Chris Liepe teaches some amazing song arrangements. This section will feature both originals and his covers of classic tunes.