The Pick Slide is a favorite amongst rockers.  You start at the bridge on the string you wish to slide.  While maintaining your pick grip rotate your wrist downward so that the pick is 90 degrees to the string.  Press the pick on the string like an ice scraper and slide or scrape the pick all the way down the string to near your fingers then completing with a sweeping motion up or downwards.

Fret hand Techniques are quite useful and are a valuable tool in making your guitar sing…literally

The Hammer-On is a note that is played without a pick and it begins from a previous note played on the same string.  While the other note rings you position a finger over the next fret position (normally ahead one or two frets) and quickly stab the string into the fret board with your fingertip.

The Pull-Off is the opposite motion.  While a note is playing you position your finger on the next fret position (normally behind one or two frets) and press down firmly.  You then pull the first finger off giving a little flick with the fingertip to accent the new note being played.

The Slide is simple, strike the first note and slide that finger to the next location without releasing pressure.

The Bend is complex and requires listening to the amount of bend.  Slight bends are just that slightly pushing or pulling on a finger holding a string in play will cause the tone or the pitch to change slightly.  The larger the push or pull the larger the tone change.  For large bends two fingers may be employed on the same fret for support.

The Vibrato Bend is a quick slight string bending technique that employs a shaking motion on the whole hand.  The faster you shake it the quicker the tone changes.

Artificial Harmonics are achieved by gently touching the string with the pad or tip of your fret board hand at the 4^th, 5^th, 7^th or the 12^th fret locations and pick the string.  Do not apply enough pressure to mute the string, the smaller the finger surface area that is touching when the string is plucked the clearer the harmonic.

A Pick Hand Hammer-On is a technique that uses a finger from your picking hand and applying a hammer on ( as described above) to a fret on a playing string

Touch Harmonics are produced when a note is already playing and you gently touch it with the tip of your pick hand finger above the fret board positions 5, 7 and 12 frets closer to the bridge than the fret being used to produce the original note.

Thumb Harmonics are produced on any played note by touching the string with the pick thumb or the pick finger as it is being struck with the pick.