Latest articles by Total Guitar
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
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
Guitar skills: A beginner lesson on how to play percussive acoustic guitar
We’re tuning to DADGAD and taking a look at the body-bashing percussive styles of guitarists such as Jon Gomm, Andy Mckee and Newton Faulkner
Guitar basics: how to practise and improve your chord fretting
Clean up your fretting with this easy beginner lesson
How to play guitar pinched harmonics
Pinched harmonics are a fantastic way to get huge, screaming sounds, as used by the likes of Zakk Wylde and Dimebag Darrell
Improve your improvisation in 20 minutes with this easy guitar lesson
Break out of your old habits and infuse your improvisation with four new concepts and ideas to jump start your jamming
9 essential rockabilly guitar chords
Give your rhythm playing an authentic rockabilly vibe with our nine essential must-learn chords…
10 guitar shop stereotypes
No visit to your local axe emporium would be complete without at least one of these lot rocking up…
How to become a guitar teacher: in-depth advice and 7 top tips
Can you play to a decent standard? Well, inside your brain is a wealth of knowledge you can exchange for cold, hard cash
10 chords every beginner guitarist should know
The title says it all! These are the 10 must-learn chords that every guitarist uses all the time. If you don’t know these chords, learn them right now.
How to play guitar like... Tosin Abasi
We look at Tosin Abasi's approaches to picking, slapping, riffing and two-handed tapping techniques...
The 12 days of riffmas: learn the intro riff to Metallica's Master Of Puppets
Day 11: you've got to downpick everything to do it right
The 12 days of riffmas: learn the intro riff to Misirlou by Dick Dale
Day 10: get your alternate picking in shape with a classic from the king of surf guitar
The 12 days of riffmas: learn the riff to Elephant by Tame Impala
Day 9: learn a modern classic from Kevin Parker's project
The 12 days of riffmas: learn the riff to Kiss by Prince
Day 8: learn this funk rhythm riff classic from the Purple One
