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Brighten up your solos and bust out of those pentatonic cages…
Take the lead with a chordal approach for our daily guitar lesson
Work on strumming different subdivisions and feels and expand your rhythmic potential by adding syncopation to your playing
Start your journey to improving your solos with some essential blues basics...
Get weird using these exotic shapes
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
Clean up your fretting with this easy beginner lesson
Pinched harmonics are a fantastic way to get huge, screaming sounds, as used by the likes of Zakk Wylde and Dimebag Darrell
Break out of your old habits and infuse your improvisation with four new concepts and ideas to jump start your jamming
Give your rhythm playing an authentic rockabilly vibe with our nine essential must-learn chords…
No visit to your local axe emporium would be complete without at least one of these lot rocking up…
Can you play to a decent standard? Well, inside your brain is a wealth of knowledge you can exchange for cold, hard cash
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.
We look at Tosin Abasi's approaches to picking, slapping, riffing and two-handed tapping techniques...
Day 11: you've got to downpick everything to do it right
Day 10: get your alternate picking in shape with a classic from the king of surf guitar
Day 9: learn a modern classic from Kevin Parker's project
Day 8: learn this funk rhythm riff classic from the Purple One
The late BB King, also known as the King Of The Blues, was one of the hardest working bluesmen in history, performing an average of 300 shows a year well into his 70s
