Total Guitar

Total Guitar

Total Guitar is Europe's best-selling guitar magazine.

Every month we feature interviews with the biggest names and hottest new acts in guitar land, plus Guest Lessons from the stars.

Finally, our Rocked & Rated section is the place to go for reviews, round-ups and help setting up your guitars and gear.

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Articles by: Total Guitar

Learn to play AC/DC's Back In Black guitar riff to celebrate its 40th anniversary

By Total Guitar published

Play one of the greatest riffs of all time with this video lesson

In pictures: EVH Striped Series Frankie Eddie Van Halen signature guitar

By Stuart Williams, Total Guitar published

Get up close with the most affordable relic'd recreation of the legendary Frankenstein yet

Guitar lesson: 5 ways to add new moods to your chords

By Total Guitar published

Guitar skills: Add colour to tired progressions with our selection of extended chords

Guitar lesson: Improve your vibrato in 20 minutes with our easy workout

By Total Guitar published

Learn how to develop an essential and emotional part of guitar playing with our tab and audio tutorials

Guitar lesson: 5 ways to break out of the minor pentatonic scale

By Total Guitar published

Simple tips for moving beyond staple guitar shapes

Easy guitar theory: 3 steps to learn the major scale

By Total Guitar last updated

An essential scale and a key building block

Guitar lesson: How to start playing classical in 10 minutes

By Total Guitar published

A beginner guitar lesson in one of the oldest playing styles

Guitar lesson: 5 funk rock chords all guitarists should learn

By Total Guitar published

Get the essentials and then use them in our funk rock riff

Guitar lesson: Learn Eddie Van Halen-style tapping the easy way

By Total Guitar published

Playing fast lead lines doesn't have to be hard

Guitar lesson: Getting started with hammer-ons for lead and chords

By Total Guitar published

An essential technique for slick solos and rhythm too

Guitar pedal order: how to organise your pedalboard

By Total Guitar published

Where to place those pedals

Guitar skills: How to improve your chord playing technique

By Total Guitar published

A beginner guitarist tutorial to learn better finger technique for four popular chords

Pedal gain stacking: everything you need to know

By Total Guitar published

Take your overdrive and distortion tones into new territory

Guitar lesson: How to change the key of any song the easy way

By Total Guitar published

An essential tutorial for singer-guitarists

Guitar lesson: Start playing bluegrass with this 5-minute tutorial

By Total Guitar published

Where to start with this style of American roots music

5-minute blues guitar lesson: Learn to play two-note trills

By Total Guitar published

Guitar skills: Learn a signature technique from Jimi Hendrix's Voodoo Child (Slight Return)

Guitar skills: Learn extended chords with our easy lesson

By Total Guitar published

Play the essential sounds of jazz and funk with 7, 9 and 11 shapes

Guitar lesson: Start playing folk with this 5-minute lesson

By Total Guitar published

Get to grips with the classic '60s acoustic folk of Bob Dylan, Nick Drake and Paul Simon

Get creative with your guitar chord playing in 20 minutes

By Total Guitar published

Find new ideas for old chord shapes with our lesson

5-minute blues guitar lesson: Learn to play fluid bends

By Total Guitar published

Guitar skills: An Albert King-inspired lick

Guitar skills: Start playing Texas blues with this 10-minute lesson

By Total Guitar published

The Lone Star State overdriven blues of SRV and Johnny Winter made accessible

Guitar skills: Learn 5 essential fret-hand techniques with our lesson

By Total Guitar published

From chord workouts to stretches – great for all levels and styles of player

5-minute blues guitar lesson: Learn to play the BB King 'Zinger'

By Total Guitar published

Guitar skills: A signature slide move from one of the greats

Guitar lesson: Learn extended minor chords

By Total Guitar last updated

Guitar skills: A guide to getting more from the moodiest chords of all – they can take on a mellow character too

Learn the signature chords of Jimi Hendrix, Andy Summers, The Beatles, Rolling Stones and more

By Total Guitar last updated

Guitar skills: Get the sounds of your favourite players with these trademark chords

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