Randy Rhoads Style Legato Lick by Martin Goulding

For the December 2012 edition of Guitar World magazine, I put together my back cover column “Last Licks“ based around the Legato technique and in the style of some of the great hard-rock players of the 1980’s including Eddie Van Halen, Randy Rhoads, Steve Vai, Richie Kotzen and Joe Satriani. Characterised by a fast, smooth tone, the Legato technique provides contrast to the picking-based techniques, and will help develop