If you didn’t for some reason already know Rick Graham is Guitarist Magazine’s Guitarist of the Year 2011, a title that Rick shares with such luminaries as Guthrie Govan (1993) and Dave Kilminster (1991). Rick is also a Suhr Artist and as you can see from the video above he has a very nice root beer drip Suhr Modern. He’s also a top bloke as you can see in my interview with him here.

Rick is a great teacher and I recently reviewed his downloadable lesson on his track ‘Thin Ice‘ which you can check out here which is from Rick’s album ‘Insideout‘. Now Rick has recorded a lesson package for the title track from the album which he kindly sent over to me.

The package includes a number of files, firstly there is the performance video which is filmed in full HD so you can go fullscreen on your big screen and see every detail of Rick’s left and right hand technique. Then obviously there is the TAB for the lead guitar part which is a note for note perfect transcription of the entire track in PDF format. Rick has also included an mp3 of the lead track isolated with just the drums as the backing track so you can hear exactly what is going on which is a nice addition as well as the backing track with the lead guitar removed and an mp3 of the full track too. Rick has also included a PDF with lesson notes that describe the background behind the track including what he was aiming to do and his inspiration and a couple of TAB excerpts of the sections he is describing.

The main part of this package however is the 23 minute HD Video lesson on how to play the track which includes dual camera angles showing Rick’s right and left hands close up. Rick breaks down the track bar by bar slowly as well as at actual speed, this is very important to learning the track because there are sections of the solo played at blistering speed and including right hand tapping. I suggest you watch this lesson with the TAB open so that you can follow along and see what Rick is describing.

As if all of this wasn’t enough for the bargain price of $20 Rick has also included a Bonus TAB and video performance of the solo that he did for the ‘Shred This Too’ competition!

If you would like to purchase this lesson package head over to Rick Graham’s website – http://www.rick-graham.co.uk/lessons.html where you will also see a few other lessons available for download and don’t forget to check out Rick’s Free Stuff section too.