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Guitar lesson: expand your blues chord progressions

A good drum track starts with the bass drum – find out here how to make sure yours kicks ass

Before you start your digital drumming journey, let’s take a tour of the instrument it’s all about…

Take your playing beyond the basics with this tab and audio-equipped tutorial

Use tuned toms in your minimal tunes

Use the CAGED system to unlock the neck

Let's make a minimal kick groove

Here's how to keep a sparsely-populated track interesting

Learn Joe Satriani's favourite mode

Let’s use samples to build a classic minimal house-style drum pattern

The inner workings of a major record label

Create a bass with frequency modulation

In this guest lesson from GuitarTricks.com's Abram Poliakoff, learn how to get to grips with the famed fingerstyle technique

Synthesis is one of the quickest and, potentially, easiest methods of creating awesome bass sounds from scratch. Here’s how it’s done…

Built around sparse beats, repetitive loops and simple arrangements, ‘minimal’ dance music might look easy to make, but it's not as simple as it sounds...

A guide to recording studio vocals

Both hands on the fretboard for this slippery tapping riff!

If you don’t reach the bottom, how can you hit the top? Get the lowdown on making your subs sound sweet

The crucial ingredients for a unique hook and a memorable tune