yourself to be a world class guitarist, it only takes a good explanation to teach those less experienced - so pick up your camera (or keyboard!) and share your thoughts with the world. Whether you want to explain the basics of how to hold a pick properly, to advanced tapping and sweeping runs, or if you want to explain how to set up a guitar or other technical dilemas - please send us an email via the contact form. Regular contributors can get their own artist profile on our site too, just get in touch!

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improvements. The new lessons page has been up for a couple of days now, and we'd like to know what you think. We are planning to add icons next to video lessons so you can find them quicker, and also an icon for the language of the lesson, which will enable us to accept more multi-lingual lessons. How else would you like us to improve the lessons section? Have you found any dead links? Is there any other part of the site you would like to see developed? Any feedback at all is very much appreciated, we're spending a lot of time and resources on improving the site, but we need to know what YOU, the users want. LET US KNOW VIA THE CONTACT FORM

we've given the section a full make-over. Now you can view the entire lessons list in one go - sort them into artist-alphabetical order, lesson title order, or lesson type - as well as filter the lessons down to just those by a particular artist, or lesson type, or media! Find the lessons you need has never been easier at Shred Academy. As ever, feedback always appreciated! Use the contact form at the bottom of each page.

Idol 2009 runner up. The lesson marks the first lesson we have added in Spanish (with english subtitles) and Hedras will be joining the Artists section once it is given a full-update in 1-2 weeks time.