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Guitar skills: Learn extended chords with our easy lesson
Play the essential sounds of jazz and funk with 7, 9 and 11 shapes
Guitar lesson: Start playing folk with this 5-minute lesson
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
Find new ideas for old chord shapes with our lesson
5-minute blues guitar lesson: Learn to play fluid bends
Guitar skills: An Albert King-inspired lick
Guitar skills: Start playing Texas blues with this 10-minute lesson
The Lone Star State overdriven blues of SRV and Johnny Winter made accessible
Guitar skills: Learn 5 essential fret-hand techniques with our lesson
Give your fretting fingers more strength and independence
5-minute blues guitar lesson: Learn to play the BB King 'Zinger'
Guitar skills: A signature slide move from one of the greats
Guitar lesson: Learn extended minor chords
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
Guitar skills: Get the sounds of your favourite players with these trademark chords
5-minute blues guitar lesson: Learn to play sliding diad chords
Guitar skills: We introduced diads in our last lesson, now let's get some movement!
Guitar lesson: How to start playing gypsy jazz
An accessible beginner lesson to get you making the moves like Django – including your first gypsy jazz chord
5-minute blues guitar lesson: Learn to play diads – two-note chords
Guitar skills: From Jimi Hendrix to John Mayer, countless players have used diads to add chord-like tone to their solos
5-minute blues guitar lesson: Dissonant doublestop bends
Guitar skills: Get to grips with the technique used by blues greats including Eric Clapton and Gary Moore
5-minute blues guitar lesson: Quarter-tone bends
Guitar skills: An essential blues trick to breathe new life into you notes – tab and audio included
Guitar skills: A beginner's guide to sus guitar chords
Introduce an airy quality to your progressions with this special ‘neither major nor minor’ type of chord
5-minute blues guitar lesson: String rakes
Guitar skills: A simple blues trick to spice up your playing
Electric guitar for beginners
Picking up a guitar for the first time can be a daunting experience, but when armed with these simple tips you'll find your playing, sound and performance improving every day.
Guitar lesson: learn major guitar chords
Guitar skills: Welcome to the world of bright-sounding major chords; simply add a handful of new notes to create lush, spacious sounds
Guitar skills: Break out of pentatonic solo ruts with these handy melodic tricks
Brighten up your solos and bust out of those pentatonic cages…
Guitar skills: Use chords and arpeggios to improve your solos
Take the lead with a chordal approach for our daily guitar lesson
Guitar skills: Improve your timing with this quick and easy lesson
Work on strumming different subdivisions and feels and expand your rhythmic potential by adding syncopation to your playing
Guitar skills: Learn blues and classic-rock lead guitar basics
Start your journey to improving your solos with some essential blues basics...
Guitar skills: Expand your repertoire with these unusual chords
Get weird using these exotic shapes
