Spice up your slash chord skills with these 10 tips on how to use them in your playing By Milton Mermikides last updated 30 September 22 Learn how to add some sonic intrigue to your progressions with rich, complex sounds, minus the complicated theory
Red-hot blues guitar lessons you can learn from ZZ Top’s Billy Gibbons By Guitar Techniques published 27 September 22 Laid back, never rushed, always on point with rhythm and feel, let's go deep into the slinky style of Billy Gibbons, a player who helped define Texas blues and '80s rock
15 scale patterns for guitar that will fire up your solos By Guitar World Staff published 27 September 22 These hot scale sequences will ignite your guitar leads with a new intensity
How to play a pinch harmonic on guitar By Tyler Larson published 27 September 22 Music is Win's Tyler Larson shares the secret to this essential ingredient in metal guitar playing
How to play guitar: a beginner’s guide By James Uings published 26 September 22 This beginner guitar lesson takes you from tuning the guitar and strumming your first chords through to playing your very first guitar solos
Show-stopping techniques you can learn from Paco de Lucia, Al Di Meola and John McLaughlin By John Wheatcroft published 22 September 22 This lesson takes a deep dive into the styles of the virtuoso trio responsible for one of the greatest fusion albums ever made
How to play blues like the early electric guitar masters By Richard Barrett published 16 September 22 This lesson takes electric blues back to the start, when electricity found its way to the guitar and players such as John Lee Hooker and Hubert Sumlin changed the world
Learn Nick Johnston's soloing secrets in this video masterclass By Jon Bishop published 15 September 22 In this exclusive lesson, the Canadian virtuoso treats us to a plethora of flowing rock phrases that will illuminate your own solos
How to improve your rhythm guitar strumming By Simon Barnard published 9 September 22 It's time to take your rhythm chops to the woodshed with this lesson in the most fundamentally important technique in guitar
Learn the slippery soloing style of Muddy Waters By Andy Aledort published 5 September 22 This improvisation on the Muddy Waters classic, Rollin’ Stone takes electric blues back to the source and plants an almighty hook in an E minor pentatonic lick
Push your skills to the limit with 5 Steve Morse licks By Charlie Griffiths published 2 September 22 Alternate picking, string skipping through the arpeggios... This dip into the former Deep Purple guitarist's playing is bootcamp for your shred chops
Joe Bonamassa shares the string bending lessons he learned from blues great Larry McCray By Joe Bonamassa published 2 September 22 One blues great pays dues to another in this lesson that unpacks McCray's unique style of marrying bends together
Add suspense to your chord progressions with these augmented shapes By Richard Barrett published 1 September 22 The music theory math is easy in this lesson, but can be devastatingly effective
5 cutting-edge prog guitar licks you need to learn By Charlie Griffiths published 26 August 22 Workshop your tapping, melodic phrasing, tech-metal riffing and more in this primer in contemporary prog guitar
How to use bass distortion pedals and nail super-heavy thunder tones By Dan Veall last updated 24 August 22 Looking to add dirt to your low-end but don't know where to start? Dan Veall's guide to bass drive has got you covered
Learn the rhythm and lead styles of Rush’s Alex Lifeson By Martin Cooper published 22 August 22 These two studies demonstrate how Lifeson marries rhythmic intrigue to imaginative melodic and harmonic themes to create Rush's life-affirming prog-rock sound
5 ways to up your shred game in the style of Jason Becker By Charlie Griffiths published 19 August 22 These five examples will help you set the fretboard alight with the pyrotechnic style of the legendary Jason Becker – bonus points for anyone who masters them while playing a yo-yo
Learn the blues-rock, acoustic fingerstyle and slide guitar approaches of the legendary Rory Gallagher By Jon Bishop published 17 August 22 The following examples will take you deep into the classic blues and rock stylings of the Irish guitar legend, and show how he augmented blues with traditional Celtic influences
How to play the blues like B.B. King By Kirk Fletcher published 12 August 22 Kirk Fletcher pays tribute to the King of the Blues with a lesson that explores the magic of the legendary bluesman's style
How chords can literally be turned on their heads to produce interesting new harmonic effects in songwriting By Richard Barrett published 11 August 22 Using inversions – or slash chords as they are more commonly known – is a great way of experimenting with familiar chords