Don Madison

We will be using some of the rhythms from a tune that I wrote for my old band back in the late 80's. The rhythm parts were pretty heavily modeled after some of my favorite tunes...

This tutorial was essentially inspired by many of the great shredders over the years, who have employed these licks so effectively. The overall purpose of it will be to learn how...

This tutorial will hopefully serve as a basic tapping primer course, that will take the player through a wide range of tapping techniques, ranging from the most basic building...

This is a 3 lessons series that teaches the elements making up my original song, Quarantine Zone.

This tutorial will hopefully serve as a basic tapping primer course, that will take the player through a wide range of tapping techniques, ranging from the most basic building...

This tutorial was essentially inspired by many of the great shredders over the years, who have employed these licks so effectively. The overall purpose of it will be to learn how...

We will be using some of the rhythms from a tune that I wrote for my old band back in the late 80's. The rhythm parts were pretty heavily modeled after some of my favorite tunes...

This is a 3 lessons series that teaches the elements making up my original song, Quarantine Zone.

Ok....One segment down and on to part 2 here. For this 2nd riff we will be dealing with more than just the E & A strings and straight Root/5th power chords. We are going to go...

For this lesson, I pulled out a Thrashy-Blues type lick, that is similar to the style that guitar players Gary Holt & Rick Hunolt used to employ back in the late 80's/early...

This Em Arp lesson is geared towards building the skill of alternate picking, both single string lines and arpeggios. This particular run, represents the type of arp/single...

The staff here at Guitar Tricks had suggested a couple of easy lessons based around some fairly straight forward, palm muted Metal rhythm playing, so I wrote & recorded this...

This is just a quick Pentatonic Picking Exercise, in the E Minor box position (12th fret). It will hopefully help you to develop your 2 note per string picking abilities and give...

This exercise will hopefully give you a starting point for working on alternate picked arpeggios. At this point we're not really worrying too much about the actual scales/modes...

For this quick little lesson, I picked a relatively straight forward string skipping exercise. I chose this one, because it is basically as tough as you want to make it. At...