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Norman Studio ST40 Folk
At the top of Norman's line is the Studio range, tipping the scales at just over a grand.
Power up your blues with these 6 pentatonic lead guitar ideas
Make blues soloing easier with the minor and major pentatonic scales. Just add extra notes to the scales you already know!
Improve your guitar chord changes in three simple steps
From folky fingerstyle to hard rock, you need a solid chord technique...
Start fingerpicking on guitar today with this quick beginner lesson
Best of 2020: A great way to begin with fingerstyle guitar
These two simple guitar chord changes will improve your muscle memory
Start developing speed around the fretboard with an accessible lesson
Guitar lesson: learn 6 great chords for folk
Take a look at a handful of shapes that lend themselves to fingerstyle and flatpicked guitar arpeggios alike
Learn soulful guitar chords with just a few two-note shapes
Start playing guitar in the style of greats like Steve Cropper and Joe Messina
Get funky with this quick guitar chord lesson
Six chords and the truth with tab and audio
Guitar skills: learn six chords for playing post-rock and jam along with our lesson
Great chords for atmospheric arpeggios
Start crosspicking your chords with our guitar lesson and transform your playing
Molly Tuttle explains how crosspicking enhanced her guitar technique and you can get started with our tab lesson
Conquer the pentatonic lick and develop your technique with Phil X's guitar lesson
Get your hands talking to each other
Learn the riff to Black Sabbath – Paranoid to celebrate its 50th birthday
As Sabbath's second album hits golden anniversary status today, learn Tony Iommi's classic guitar riff from the title track
Power-up your guitar playing with this Paul Gilbert 'rule of thumb' lesson
"So much depends on the thumb"
Learn to solo over chord changes and improve your bending with these two Mark Tremonti guitar lessons
How to add more soul to your soloing with the Alter Bridge guitarist's advice
Guitar lesson: how to use vibrato
Try your hand at one of the most expressive lead guitar techniques and put your own mark on every solo you play
Easy guitar theory: cross rhythms
Freshen up the riffs you write with our easy lesson
Guitar basics: learn to play power chords
Master rock guitar's cornerstone chord with this tab and audio lesson
Guitar lesson: improve your legato soloing quickly with these licks
Build your speed with our tutorial
Learn to play a classic Peter Green guitar riff: Fleetwood Mac – Oh Well (Pt 1)
A step by step video lesson teaching you the iconic intro
Learn to play AC/DC's Back In Black guitar riff to celebrate its 40th anniversary
Play one of the greatest riffs of all time with this video lesson
NAMM 2016: Seymour Duncan's Catalina dynamic chorus pedal revealed
Video and details of new stompbox released
In pictures: EVH Striped Series Frankie Eddie Van Halen signature guitar
Get up close with the most affordable relic'd recreation of the legendary Frankenstein yet
