The Rock House Method - Lead Guitar: Techniques for Creating Solos, featuring John McCarthy. This collection of lead guitar techniques will help you expand your arsenal & create new ideas for your own blazing solos. Develop arpeggio skills with sweep tap, small three string sweep & arpeggio progressions. Learn techniques like bi-dextral scale hammer-ons, pivoting, whammy bar tricks, muted scratching & full neck runs.