John Petrucci guitar lesson (excerpt)

I’m using a lot of blues ideas in my current featured solo guitar spot with Dream Theater. Since we normally don’t play this type of music, I thought it would be a cool area to explore – kind of my homage to Seventies blues-rock guitar heroes like Robin Trower. I actually wrote this piece on the plane on the way back from my honeymoon. There wasn’t any paper around, so I scribbled the arrangement down on one of those airsickness bags, hence the title ‘Barf Bag’.