How To Access Your Lessons
- At purchase, your receipt will be emailed and also displayed immediately, which contains the links for immediate download of your videos.
- Downloads are for your permanent storage. If you play them, they are rather big and so usually require a desktop PC. But you can save them off to any external drive for permanent storage.
- The best way to watch your videos is ONLINE. You will have IMMEDIATE online access to your videos. Look for an email with a link to register, or simply click the "Register" link at the top of the home page. Use the same email address you used at purchase, and set a password. You will then see your lessons.
- Online access is great for using mobile phones and tablets, and for having access from anywhere with an internet connection.
- Plus the online videos have a SPEED and LOOP controls for even more control !!!
- This site can be viewed on mobile devices, but a desktop is strongly recommended for the best viewing experience.
About Playing Guitar Solos
I've always found playing guitar solos to be the best way to improve your technique and to get more out of the guitar.
I've put together a library of lessons and slow-motion videos to help you uncover just how these solos were played, and the techniques used to play them.
I've put together a library of lessons and slow-motion videos to help you uncover just how these solos were played, and the techniques used to play them.
About LEADSOLO guitarist Tom Lane
I grew up playing music, with beginning guitar lessons at age nine, and forming my first band at the age of ten. I studied music theory and played several other instruments as well - piano, bass guitar, flute, drums.
That background gave me an excellent basis to develop my method of learning guitar solos by ear. Once I realized that I could find the notes myself (and by the way, anyone can do it - I don't have perfect pitch by a longshot), I obsessed with learning hundreds of guitar solos. The more precise I got, the more I found my technique just evolved, as I never took a lead guitar lesson, or had any lead guitar technique advice. There was no such thing as guitar videos in the day, and while you can find guitar tips online about how to place your finger here, or hold the pick this way, for example, that is not what will develop your technique anyway. Your technique is your technique. Actually playing guitar solos is what will develop your technique. The videos on this site should make it much easier to quickly begin playing and practicing these solos, which hopefully will bring a lot of joy and mastery of the guitar for you.
My goal is to make this site as easy to use as possible. Downloading is great to store the lesson away for future reference, but, in addition to being a hassle, is not always so convenient to use. Now after purchasing a lesson you will just automatically have online access to it in your account, to watch on any device that is convenient for you to use.
That background gave me an excellent basis to develop my method of learning guitar solos by ear. Once I realized that I could find the notes myself (and by the way, anyone can do it - I don't have perfect pitch by a longshot), I obsessed with learning hundreds of guitar solos. The more precise I got, the more I found my technique just evolved, as I never took a lead guitar lesson, or had any lead guitar technique advice. There was no such thing as guitar videos in the day, and while you can find guitar tips online about how to place your finger here, or hold the pick this way, for example, that is not what will develop your technique anyway. Your technique is your technique. Actually playing guitar solos is what will develop your technique. The videos on this site should make it much easier to quickly begin playing and practicing these solos, which hopefully will bring a lot of joy and mastery of the guitar for you.
My goal is to make this site as easy to use as possible. Downloading is great to store the lesson away for future reference, but, in addition to being a hassle, is not always so convenient to use. Now after purchasing a lesson you will just automatically have online access to it in your account, to watch on any device that is convenient for you to use.
Thank you for your support!
I truly appreciate your support. Support from people like you has encouraged me to continue on with additional lessons, and to make improvements to my website.
My advice on guitar:
"Listen to the works of others you like, and to strive to duplicate them - to practice their styles, and to learn from their talents. Then their styles automatically incorporate into your own."
About Slow-Motion Guitar:
Back in Jan 2007 when I was creating my first video for YouTube, I stretched out a guitar track and the light-bulb came on: Slow-Motion-Guitar was born !!!
I started developing all my lessons with it. I searched everywhere on Google in the day and no one in the world was doing it! Back in the day, a google of slow-motion guitar used to turn up the first page full of only my links, until there was a song published by that name.
I started developing all my lessons with it. I searched everywhere on Google in the day and no one in the world was doing it! Back in the day, a google of slow-motion guitar used to turn up the first page full of only my links, until there was a song published by that name.
About my Guitar Tab
- Downloads include a pdf file of the tab (unless stated otherwise), plus usually the tab is right on the video as well.
- I have personally created all of my tab to show how I technically play the licks.
- An amazing number of notes are not picked. These are the usual hammer-ons (h), pull-offs (p), bends (b), slide (/).
- If there is not an 'h' 'p' 'b' '/' before the note, that means I actually pick the note.
- This detail will help you start to develop the habits that make it easier to play faster.
- You not only learn awesome solos, but develop your technique as a guitar player.
About my Guitar Videos
- Help visualize how I play the licks.
- See which fingers I use, which you don't get from tab.
- Analyze the timing of the licks with the backing tracks.
- Analyze the timing and rhythm of the licks more closely using slow-motion video.
Play-thru lessons
- These lessons allow you to really analyze the timing as well as the notes, because the licks are played along with backing tracks.
- They are also shown in slow-motion to see more clearly.
- Usually there is on-screen tab, as well as printable tab. (see each products description)
Walk-thru lessons
- These lessons have narration and show how to play the guitar licks.
- Includes explanations of how I technically play the licks, and of how they fit in with the chords and scales.
These lessons are based on the principle of learning by doing. If you want to improve, pick up your guitar and play. Even better, practice patterns and techniques of accomplished guitarists.