In our Guitar Skills series of lessons we'll be covering a huge range of techniques and approaches in manageable chunks to help build your playing up to new levels. Click below for all our lessons so far.
Learn Eddie Van Halen-style tapping the easy way
Playing fast lead lines doesn't have to be hard
Learn the three-chord trick that's behind thousands of songs
Three chords and the most important chord progression in music
Getting started with hammer-ons for lead and chords
An essential technique for slick solos and rhythm too
The pentatonic scale made easy with three chord shapes
Scales don't have to be hard – and this lesson proves it!
How to improve your chord playing technique
A beginner guitarist tutorial to learn better finger technique for four popular chords
Learn 16 of the best guitar chords for clean tones
Make your clean sounds shimmer with these captivating chords
Start playing bluegrass with this 5-minute tutorial
Where to start with this style of American roots music
5-minute blues guitar lesson: Learn to play two-note trills
Guitar skills: Learn a signature technique from Jimi Hendrix's Voodoo Child (Slight Return)
Learn extended chords with our easy lesson
Play the essential sounds of jazz and funk with 7, 9 and 11 shapes
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
How to compose catchy lead guitar solos
Guitartricks.com instructor Dave Celentano teaches you the essential ingredients for a great solo
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
Start playing Texas blues
The Lone Star State overdriven blues of SRV and Johnny Winter made accessible
Is it time to try a new guitar pick?
Find out how the best guitar picks from the likes of Fender, Ernie Ball and D'Addario can transform your playing style and tone
How to create slick guitar solos using tapping and bending
Supercharge your solos with these advanced ideas
Learn 5 essential fret-hand techniques with our lesson
From chord workouts to stretches – great for all levels and styles of player
The ultimate Jimi Hendrix rhythm guitar chord lesson
Master Jimi's 'thumb over the neck' and and finger barre chord techniques – plus his approach to funk rock
Find your next guitar amp
The 11 best guitar amps under $/£500: our pick of the best amps for beginners and experts
Learn to play the BB King 'Zinger'
A signature slide move from one of the greats
Learn extended minor chords
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
Get the sounds of your favourite players with these trademark chords
How to start playing rockabilly in 10 minutes
An accessible lesson to get you digging back to a golden age of rock guitar that's full of great playing techniques
Improve your metal downpicking speed
An essential from the Hetfield school of rhythm guitar
Learn to play sliding diad chords
Take diad shapes and move them to add dynamics
Learn add guitar chords
A beginner's guide to exploring the contrasting moods of major and minor add chords
How to start playing gypsy jazz
An accessible beginner lesson to get you making the moves like Django – including your first gypsy jazz chord
Make jamming easier with this 12-bar blues chord generator
Learn the most common chord progression in the most important keys and you’ll always know where you are in a 12-bar blues jam
5-minute blues guitar lesson: Learn to play diads – two-note chords
From Jimi Hendrix to John Mayer, countless players have used diads to add chord-like tone to their solos
Are you up to the challenge of these Steve Vai-style riffs and licks?
Learn the leads and rhythm styles behind Passion & Warfare
Spice up your chord playing with these inventive harmonic ideas
Integrate natural, artificial and tapped harmonics with this Yes, Rush-style lesson
5-minute blues guitar lesson: Dissonant doublestop bends
Get to grips with the technique used by blues greats including Eric Clapton and Gary Moore
Learn to play quick flurries of notes
How to wow with short bursts of pace
Learn from the master with these Chuck Berry-style blues licks
Go back to the building blocks of rock
Learn 9 alternate guitar tunings to inspire your chord playing
Open the door to new creative possibilities with these varied tunings
10 great blues guitar chords to learn now
Enhance your blues and beyond with these shapes
Learn four great David Gilmour signature Pink Floyd guitar chords
Shine on you crazy Gm6
5-minute blues guitar lesson: Quarter-tone bends
An essential blues trick to breathe new life into you notes – tab and audio included
Step up your playing with these sweep picking lessons
Master one of the most difficult solo techniques
22 essential chords all guitarists need to know
From beginner essentials to folk and blues
Guitar Skills: Get funky with these chord shapes
Get started with the art of chord vamping
Speed up your leads with these quickfire exercises
You may or may not want to be a shredder but you might still want to improve your playing speed so you can play the occasional burning lick
String bends for beginners
String bends on guitar lets you play phrases that other instruments can't
A beginner guitar lesson on the pentatonic scale
The pentatonic scale is the guitarist's friend – let's get started with it
Major guitar chords
Welcome to the world of bright-sounding major chords; simply add a handful of new notes to create lush, spacious sounds
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
The best electric guitars for beginners: start playing today
Looking for a great beginner electric guitar but don’t know where to start or what to spend? We’re here to help
Improve your blues guitar leads in 20 minutes
Sort your phrasing and melodic playing with this blues tutorial
30 chords acoustic guitarists need to know
From open chords to blues and alternate tunings – we've got you covered here
The best cheap acoustic guitars
Your guide to the best budget acoustic and electro-acoustic guitars, with great value options from Epiphone, Alvarez, Taylor and more
Expand your repertoire with these unusual chords
Step outside the confines of rock and pop with these exotic, weird and wonderful sounds
Improve your guitar solo improvisations
Do your improvised solos feel like you're just rehashing the same old licks? We can help!
Strengthen your fretting fingers with these slick legato workouts
Give your first finger a rest and treat the remaining three digits to a spot of fretboard fitness training
Improve your acoustic fingerpicking in 20 minutes
Put your pick down and give your chord playing a new lease of life with our fingerstyle lesson
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
The best electric guitar strings 2020
Explore the very best guitar strings available from Ernie Ball, D’Addario, Elixir, Rotosound and more
Stretch your fingers with these wide chord shapes
We’re spacing chords across all six strings and leaving lots of space between each note, aiming for an open, airy sound
Learn blues and classic-rock lead guitar basics
Start your journey to improving your solos with some essential blues basics
Learn hard rock and heavy metal guitar essentials
Get started with our key techniques lesson with picking and the phrygian scale
Expand your mind with these ingenious prog chords
Stretch fingers and tonal textures with these progressive rock chords
Improve your timing with this quick and easy lesson
Getting into the groove is an integral part of guitar playing, and that's our focus here
Use chords and arpeggios to improve your solos
In this lesson we're covering ideas to help you play more melodic leads, drawing on classic Americana styles
Speed up your guitar solos with the fearsome 'spider' lick
Played at speed, the fearsome ‘spider’ lick is a challenging two-hand workout. Slow it down and you have a great finger exercise for any guitarist
Break out of pentatonic solo ruts with these handy melodic tricks
Brighten up your solos and bust out of those pentatonic cages
“I can’t play jigs or reels or any of that traditional Irish stuff, but I have got a good ear for blues, the tonality of it”: 3 ways to supercharge your lead guitar playing like Rory Gallagher
“A well-crafted sequence is successful wherever you may wish to use it”: Use these tried and tested chord progressions to build an engaging song
