What is a Learning Path, and how will it help me?
Don’t know where to start? Our Learning Paths take the most common guitar goals, themes and playing styles and provide a handpicked path of lessons, from our library, to put you on track.
What is a Learning Path?
Don’t know where to start? Our Learning Paths take the most common guitar goals themes and playing styles and provide a handpicked path of lessons, from our library, to put you on the right track.
With a mix of technique and song lessons, you will find each Learning Path serves as a medium term practice routine too! Providing you with the skills you need, when you need them and some songs with which you can instantly apply your new techniques and concepts.

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Whammy Bar Bootcamp
Ah, the whammy bar. Perhaps the most iconic sound of the ‘80s – dive bombs, screams and big harmonic squeals. Want to get to grips with Van Halen, Motley Crue, Steve Vai and a host more? It all starts with a quick bootcamp on using your whammy bar!
2 LESSONS, RUN TIME – 13:10 MINS
Lessons in Part 1 include:
80’s Style Harmonics
Van Halen Style Whammy Bar Techniques
2
Top ‘80s Songs
Let’s get right to it! We’ve hand picked, what we consider to be five of the best songs from the golden decade of rock guitar! Get your rocks off to Van Halen, Bon Jovi, David Lee Roth, KISS and more!
9 LESSONS, RUN TIME – 5 HOURS, 35 MINS
Lessons in Part 2 include:
Warrant – Cherry Pie
Van Halen – Panama
Bon Jovi – Bad Medicine
David Lee Roth – Shy Boy
Whitesnake – Still of the Night
KISS – Crazy Crazy Nights
Europe – The Final Countdown
Poison – Unskinny Bop
Motley Crue – Girls, Girls, Girls
Other Guitar Learning Paths you might like
From improvisation, licks, famous solos and even those first steps on the lead guitar journey.
Shred Ninja - Sweep Picking Challenge
How good is your sweep picking? Want to put your technique to the test? We have taken the best and most challenging sweep picking licks and studies from the Licklibrary archives and arranged them in order – from moderate to outright insane! Complete each one by matching the tutor note for note for each level to be crowned Shred Ninja! Make sure you use both the AB looper and the speed control so, once you have learnt each lick, you can slow things down and play along – increasing your speed as you go. Good luck!!
Start This Learning PathThe Easiest Guitar Solos in the World
So you’ve learnt your bends, double stops, hammer ons, basic scales and all the good stuff that will take you on your first steps in the world of lead guitar. But what next? Surely there is a collection of famous guitar solos which you can learn to help you on your way? Help is at hand with this Learning Path. We have compiled 12 of the easiest solos from across all our lessons (and perhaps the world!), all basic lead guitar skills & techniques.
Start This Learning Path