Michael Lee Firkins – Mastering Lead (Hot Licks)

Michael Lee Firkins possessing a guitar style of incredible depth and maturity. In this video course he gives a thorough and well-rounded lesson dealing with scales and routines, whammy bar effects for unique slide and pedal steel sounds, overdubbing lead harmonies and solos over a rhythm part, blues leads, tapping effects and real tapping for lightning fast runs, fingerpicking for both lead and rhythm, Jimmy Page and Joe Walsh styles, special harmonica and banjo effects, open-string tapping styles, and advanced sweeping and arpeggio techniques and exercises.

Videos
Part 1 (04:46) - In this first video, Michael Lee Firkins welcomes you to the course.
Part 2 (07:58) - Michael kicks things off with rhythm guitar.
Part 3 (09:09) - Michael dives a little deeper into the immitation slide technique.
Part 4 (08:56) - In this video, Michael discusses what techniques helped him in learning to play lead.
Part 5 (05:54) - Michael contijnues teaching us lead techiuques.
Part 6 (14:50) - In this final video, Michael runs down the lasst few lead techniques.