1. Palm Muting 2. Pinch Harmonics 3. Vibrato 4. Sliding Up Into The Note 5. Sliding Down Into The Note 6. Raking Into Notes 7. Hammer-Ons 8. Pull-Offs 9. Trills (Bonus: Sliding Finger Along The String While Trilling To Get Harmonics) 10. Artificial Harmonics (Tapping Over The Fret An Octave Higher, Also Works At Other Natural Nodes) 11. Fingerpicking 12. Volume Swells 13. Tremolo Picking 14. Bends (Fast Bends, Slow Bends, Ghost Bends, Staccato Picking While Bending) 15. Using A Slide Bonus Technique: Killswitch Effect

I wish this dude was my guitar teacher in person...

He is brilliant I love this guy...

Thank you Joel!!! Awesome lesson. Im a 43 year old beginner and this has opened a huge door for me to have fun for a while with my electric guitar!

Where was this when I was a teenager ...great stuff and he sounds like a great guy too !

AWESOME LESSON - Joel is one of the greats!

Joel is an amazing teacher. All of his lessons are easy to follow and he does a great job simplifying these riffs so you feel motivated to work on them and not deflated cuz they seem too hard, rather you feel confident

Hoekstra and Guthrie Govan are probably this generations best teachers for rock, as well as other styles on the guitar. Both very humble, very good at holding your attention, and very good at illustrating the lesson.

Love these series of lessons by Joel...he teaches well

THANK YOU SO MUCH Joel! You boosted me 3 years ahead. I'm learning the guitar now for 18 months and it's exactly what you telling here. Riffs, licks, solos suck. Whyyyyy (arrrrrrrgh....) I wondered all the time. Your 15 (and a half) steps to Rock n' Roll put all the bits and pieces l've learned so far together. Now I understand. Now I see the whole picture. It's amazing, it works. Wow! Again, Joel - thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you !!!

Best pick hand techniques tutorial ever! All encompassing. Shows many great “tricks.” I am self taught. My pick hand has always held me back. Thanks for sharing.

Thanks Joel! Your instructional videos are first class. This new vid followed by your string bending video from a while back are personal favorites. Appreciate your time!

Great stuff - Joe's attitude when talking riffs, tricks and guitar in general in one of a passionate man!

Everyone should appreciate these lessons!! This is Great Stuff for Free! Great Guy here!

Humble and great, the sound of that guitar ...wow

Thanks for these free lessons, GW and Joel! Awesome!

This may be the most valuable lesson anyone can learn. Having a foundation of knowing how to make a single note and then a simple slow phrase sound good ought to be compulsory before learning how to shred. As for hammer-ons, Joel is doing a thing he doesn't really explain or realizing he's doing; he's sometimes re-picking the fifth fret note immediately before hammering-on to the seventh fret note. That almost qualifies as a trick in its own right. Using fingers or hybrid picking is the standard way for country pickers, but heavy rock guys like Richie Kotzen does it exclusively too

Great idea for a lesson! New stuff for us teachers to pass on to our students. Goldmine for techniques! Thanks

Thanks so much. This has been a massive breakthrough for me. Keep it up

Man that was exactly what I was looking for....all the techniques in one. Thank You!!

Mad love to the Whitford/St. Holmes shirt. That was an underrated gem from the early 80's. Great lesson from an awesome dude!

Good stuff! Thanks for making this. Happy New Year!

I totally agree Matthew. Joel is amazing.

Joel is a good teacher. With just a simple phrase, he showed we can go far....real far!

Awesome lesson! So many great tricks to master and apply.

great lesson, I'm very happy you demonstrated artificial harmonics. My own logic told me you tap on the 5th, 7th, 12th fret from the note, but without seeing it demonstrated and having someone explain it it was just me guessing. Thanks for the lesson.

Wow I have been playing so many years but I still learned like a couple of techniques today ... Thanks !! Also I love your tone!! ❤️😀

Excellent teacher, thanks Joel ! A gentleman rocker for sure !

Thank you for the great and clear lesson... We really appreciate it .

Joel muchas gracias por estos regalos son unas lecciones increíbles y nunca cambies esa humildad, Joel thank so much for these gifts they are amaizing lesson and never change your humility, greeting from Chile

Favorite teacher!! Makes learning fun!! Thanks Brotha!

thanx joel, what a teacher you are. 🙏🏻.

This lesson has really hit home with my playing!

I wish I'd see this video 10 years ago. Good Job! 👌

This man flies way under the radar

GREAT stuff as usual! It's necessary to point out that pick/pinch harmonics, trill harmonics and false (tapped) harmonics are much easier to achieve when the bridge pickup is selected. They'll work on the neck--or both pickups, but not nearly as easy to nail. Cheers!

you are the only one that makes sense out of this for me, i finally got it,. thank you bro,.

Frampton Comes Alive! ( in the background on wall ) Now that's respect! ;)

Outstanding lesson for anybody.

Seen Joel play with TSO,what a amazing show.

Excellent Joel !!!!!!!👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏

Joel is a great player and a great teacher!!!

Thanks for sharing your skill and knowledge

what a great lesson from such a likable dude!

The professor Joel! Rock on!!!

Whoooaa....he's back!

Man,what an awesome lesson,dude.👍🇦🇺

Joel is so cool. Love his style.

great lesson! Thx

Thank you Joel!!!!!!!👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏

what a great teacher!

Lição incrível.Muito bom Joel

@1:07 he's such a good teacher!!! hahaha love this dude

There are guitar heroes & guitar superheroes. Joel might be one of the superheroes, saving someone stuck on the rut.

Awesome job Joel!

Joel is back! Wahoo!

This is fantastic

Joel is da man!

I watch so many videos and wow this was the most I've been taught in any

love it!

His tone is so good no matter what rig he is using.

Great info.

Dude, pinch harmonics were the blackest magic for so long.

Well that was awesome..!!;)

probably the best teacher out there,.

Great!!!!

Excellent guitariste... excellent pédagogue aussi, l'un n'impliquant pas nécessairement l'autre...

Great player

I love the Whitford St.Holmes hoodie

Perfect Strangers riff? NICE!

this guy is so nice and hes a scorpion wow

GIMMIE THAT TONE!!!

The term I learned was "Pinch harmonic" which makes a lot more sense since you are pinching the string between pick and finger.

you didn't know , Joel did it for you !

I wonder what gear did Joel use with his Les Paul? It would be very helpful and appreiated if you guys (Guitar World) would post it.

Joel is killer guitarist, I liked him as a big fans,i want to have it his Les Paul

Me gusta mucho como usted toca , Joel , yo soy bajista cubano con cincuenta anos de experiencia en el rock me gustaría contar con su amistad , y watesnake , una banda formidable me encanta Pepe fuñy ,

Joel is a beast.. And cools everything down so people can understand.. Great instruction…! Yes Gilbert and Guthrie are just as amazing.! However the great master Shawn Lane talks everything slow and amazing however still can’t figure his stuff out..!!

I wish I had this video 10 years ago

Hmmm, well if this here old dog (65) can select a few of these ways and actually use them constructively and regularly, then my guitar playing abilities would have greatly improved !! Making the transition from bass to guitar has definitely been challenging to say the least, but I love it !!

Joel, you forgot the fake wah: Instead of the 10 bridge/0 neck volume toggle switch trick, do it on the tone controls. Bob Kulick did this when subbing for Ace on Alive II (side 4). You don't have to have it 10 on the bridge and 0 on the neck for the tone controls either. You can have it 8 and 3, etc. for a more muted wah (sorta like a Jerry Cantrell wah, for instance). And since the middle position will sum the two, you can get 3 different wah type voicings. Try it sometime.

What gear does he use here to have so great sound???!!! Joel is an amazing musician anyway, I saw him live with Whitesnake, he is a killer guitarist!!!

These are the frets all Gibson should come with

Some of these techniques do require a fairly high gain distortion tone, pinched harmonics and the harmonics when trilling won't happen easily without that.

Very fucking cool 🤘

I’ve got to ask what effect pedals are you using in this video to get your tone?

My vibrato needs help. Now that I think about it, so does my picking, fretting, phrasing, tone, pull-offs, slide ins, slide outs and bending. I'm sure I left something out. Yeah, I pretty much suck.

How do you make that happen

Great vid, but no double stops?

Play notes inside and out of the pentatonic box shape. Two melodies moved up and down the neck

My first teacher told me to do what ever I do at home . Wich was nothing resembling music I just purchased the quitar. The entire lesson he was on the phone trying to sell his 12 string work to different people. Then before I left he showed how to play Peter gun on one string. I never went back to that guy

Tip one. Have Joel play them.

4:21 seconds to 4:29 seconds - Mick Mars vibes!

What guitar is that..where can I buy one..what a tone?

I'm a master guitarist and I still study basics.

Joel is back!! SOB...now where is that instruction GW video ?? jokes man but make one if you can we would all get it..WELCOME BACK BROTHER!! what a surprise man wholly shit!! Dam.

Ohio like that!! 👀😉👍

I think when it come fake harmonics dimebag gave me the the best advice for both natural and and fakes he said it's a technique that will be dicking with your whole life something learn and master and remaster different way fucking with different shit I still fuck with harmonics all the time lots of different ways to use them so if you read this comment and having issues with pinch are natural just start fucking around with them a ton of different techniques you will learn by simply messing with them

What issue is this in?

Hello Joel !!! You are a very good Teacher ! You are my favourit Guitar Atar !!! Congratulations ! A big Hug my Friend !!! :-D 🔥🔥🔥 _)m(