Latest articles by Chris Bird
Best guitar audio interfaces 2025: Record killer guitar parts at home with our top picks
The best audio interfaces for guitar from IK Multimedia, Focusrite, UAD and more
Best acoustic guitars 2025: Super steel string acoustics for all players and budgets
Our pick of the very best flat tops from Taylor, Martin, Gibson, Fender and loads more
Best electric guitars 2025: Our pick of guitars to suit all budgets
Find the top electric guitar for your budget and playing style, whether you play rock, metal, blues or beyond
Best bass strings 2025: Electric and acoustic bass strings encompassing every tone and budget
Breathe some fresh life into your bass with our pick of the best bass strings on the market
The minor pentatonic is the essential scale for guitar solos: we'll show you how to get to grips with it today
If you learn one scale on the guitar then it should be this
Best cheap bass guitars 2025: Top budget basses for every style of player
Take a tour through our pick of the best budget bass guitars for beginner to intermediate players
8 essential contemporary blues guitar licks to learn
The styles and techniques of the current crop of blues guitarists with audio and tab
5 ways to improve your guitar recordings
Pro tips and useful tricks you can use at home and in the studio
Cory Wong: “The key to it all, the starting point for understanding, is just to listen”
We talk to the Vulfpeck guitarist and modern funk whiz
10 ways to improve your guitar practice now
Improve your routine with our quick lessons and tips
Best Bass Strings
Give your bass a boost with our pick of the best bass guitar strings around
"We’ve been making guitars for 70 years. We'll be teaching people how to play for the next 70" - Fender CEO Andy Mooney on the company's mission
Chief Executive talks Fender Songs and how the iconic guitar company is trying to reach out to new potential players
Easy guitar theory: Chord structures
Learn how to build some of the most commonly used chords with 5 different chord structures and accompanying arpeggio patterns
New Fender Songs app features over 750k songs to learn
Slow down to learn, complete with lyrics plus chord boxes
Me and my guitar: Joey Landreth
The Canadian alt-country star on his custom-made go-to Goldtop
10 ways to get more from your guitar
How to sound better using what's right in front of you
Blur the line between rhythm and lead guitar with these smart playing approaches
10 ideas that will help you handle both roles in your band
Guitar basics: getting started with rhythm guitar
Try some rhythm basics with a lesson on strumming and staying in time
A-Z of classic rock guitar
Music styles don't come much wider, cooler or more inspirational than the behemoth that is classic rock
Opinion: Percussive acoustic guitar… is it any good?
In the first of a series of monthly opinion blogs Total Guitar's Music Editor, Chris Bird, asks if the acoustic scene really needs to get percussive.
Rockschool makes Drums, Guitar and Bass syllabuses available via KR Player app
Rockschool makes Drums, Guitar and Bass syllabuses available via KR Player app
Animals As Leaders - The Joy Of Motion review
Some of the most creative guitar playing around today? We'd say so...
VIDEO: Mattias IA Eklundh new video out today
The Swedish axe wizard covers AC/DC's classic track 'Hell's Bells' on latest album, 'Freak Guitar: The Smorgasbord'
