Tom starts us out using a Gibson ES-335 guitar on No Particular Place to Go by Chuck Berry and does a really nice job showing us how to play the rhythm and double stop lead licks that Chuck was so famous for.
This guitar lesson alone is worth the price of admission and you could conceivably start right here to learn rock guitar.
This one should be mandatory for beginners. I read Chucks auto-biography - one very smart man who didn't drink alcohol.
He is man enough to admit to other guitar shaped weaknesses however. Bless you Chuck!
Next up is Eric Clapton and Creams arrangement of Crossroads - a Robert Johnson song/Cream 12 bar blues jam in A. Gibson Les Paul/SG.
The basic structure of the song is familiar but its the little nuances and extensive fast lead guitar work that make this one more difficult. Once again Tom does an excellent job of explaining and showing it to us. Here you are going to need to know your pentatonic scale all over the neck not just in 5th position.
Elsewhere there are fret board charts that show you those pentatonic notes - obtain such a chart and you could conceivably muddle through and learn a lot in the process but don't expect a miracle right off the bat.
I spent months doing those pentatonic shapes in the 5 fret boards positions and eventually you get so you can merge them more and more. Then other guitarists look at you with what approaches respect - doesn't mean you can play yet however.
Once in a while you will stumble upon the truth, but most of us manage to pick ourselves up and hurry along as if nothing had happened.
--- Winston Churchill