The Hal Leonard Melodic Lead Guitar Featuring Tom Kolb DVD helps you break out of that pentatonic rut and greatly expand your repertoire. It brings this seasoned Musician's Institute guitar instructor to you for personal lessons. Kolb, who has been with the institute since 1989, reveals the tools and strategies necessary for creating memorable, intelligent lead guitar lines.

Tom breaks these topics down in a concise, easy-to-understand fashion and demonstrates their usefulness with exciting musical examples. Covered topics include: rocking up Mixolydian, 3rds and 6ths, arpeggios, "the railroad track"-the easiest scale in the world-minor scales and modes, Lydian: a major alternative, major-key soloing for rockers, triad substitutions, pentatonic double stop, killer guitar tone, and open-string embellishments.