Neal Walter is best known for his classic rock tone and style, but beneath the noise is a softer "sweet sounds of acoustic" style. This is a collection of acoustic guitar lessons from the Guitar Tricks Channel host.

In the weekly Guitar Tricks Channel, Neal Walter will show you in an fun, quick, engaging way how to play the blues. These episodes from 2009 to 2011 cover a variety of blues topics and even feature a special guest - Anders Mouridsen stops by to jam with Neal live in the studio.

These Guitar Tricks Channel episodes from 2011-2012 sample great blues topics like two-note chords, vibrato, chromatics in the blues, Texas style blues, and coping the style of Stevie Ray Vaughan.

These Guitar Tricks Channel episodes from 2013 will teach you more blues riffs and tricks, including turnarounds, call and response, Texas boogie, major blues, subtlety in lead playing, and a variety of bending techniques.

These Guitar Tricks Channel episodes will teach you rock palm muting techniques, whammy bar tricks with harmonics, pick scraping, getting more notes with hammer-ons and pull-offs, chord riffs, and pentatonic soloing.

These Guitar Tricks Channel episodes from 2011-2013 will teach you rock style and tone secrets of some of the greatest guitarists in rock: Jeff Beck, David Gilmour, Carlos Santana, plus you'll also learn about southern rock, unison bends, and a get a large helping of southern rock licks from classic rock tone expert Neal Walter.

There are lots of fun topics in this series, including several wah-wah lessons, whammy technique, tap harmonics, Slash-inspired riffs, Alex Lifeson-inspired riffs, Joe Perry-inspired riffs, plenty of rock and southern rock riffin' and lots of tips on soloing.

Guitar Tricks Channel host Neal Walter loves metal guitar and the sonic intersection point between metal and classic rock. In these lessons Neal will teach you some of his favorite topics from 80s metal to more modern drop D sounds.

Enjoy watching these episodes from all our visits to NAMM! Rock on!

In this six lesson song tutorial, we'll learn the parts of the "Batman Theme", as made famous by The Ventures in the 1960's. You'll use your knowledge of basic pentatonic scales and box patterns, learn the simple chromatic hook riff that is central to the song, how the rhythm breaks work, how to play the simple solo, and how to voice the Batman vocals on guitar. We'll cap it all off with a play along to a custom "bat" backing track!

"Hot Child in the City" was made famous by glam rocker Nick Gilder in the 1970's. In this series of lessons we'll put several things under the microscope: the harmonics and delay, the verses, guitar hook lick in the choruses, the bridge, and how to use space in the music to your advantage. Then we'll top things of with a play-along.

Get ready to learn some a very cool metal song with lots of great chords and licks, "My Curse", as made famous by Killswitch Engage. This driving number has many elements that we'll learn in this tutorial: the tone, form, picking techniques, dynamics, low C tuning, the jazz-inspired chords, fast 16 note triplets, and more. Time to engage!

In this set of lessons, Neal Walter will teach you the 80's classic "Treat Me Right" as made famous by Pat Benatar. This rockin' guitar song is built around a driving 12/8 triplet feel. We'll take you through the verse, the chorus, the accents and rhythms, the screamin' solo, and top it all off with a playalong.

In these 10 guitar lessons, Neal Walter will be teaching you "You Really Got Me", as made famous by Van Halen in their cover of the song. Neal will introduce you to the tune and talk about the gear and tones, then he'll dive into the classic riff in the intro and the first couple of verses. Then it's time to learn the rippin' shredding solo, followed by the 3rd verse. As always we finish off with a performance play-along, then you jam along as the main guitarist with the "band".

In this short tutorial, Neal Walter will explain two types of harmonics for you: pinch and natural. Pinch harmonics are often used in rock soloing, and natural harmonics are often used to give color. Neal will break down how to approach these harmonics so you can add them to your expressive arsenal.

Palm muting is an essential technique for every rock guitarist, and is simple to learn! This tutorial will walk you through the mechanics of how to use palm muting with power and barre chords, accents, and more.

This series of lessons will teach the user how to combine barre, power and open chords along with palm muting and arpeggiation to create chord progressions that rock.