Music tuition

Best of 2020: Make your clean sounds shimmer with these captivating chords

Never be short of blues turnaround ideas again with this guide, including audio examples

Best of 2020: From beginner basics to folk and blues

Best of 2020: We break down the lead techniques of the greatest guitarist of all time with a huge tutorial – including wah and whammy lessons

Start developing speed around the fretboard with an accessible lesson

Best of 2020: Blues, 50s, pop-punk, jazz and the cycle of 5ths are great for songwriting inspiration or looping your own backing tracks too

Best of 2020: You've tried everything but it just doesn't sound right. Help is at hand...

Stuck in a rut? These tips will help to get you out of it

Take a look at a handful of shapes that lend themselves to fingerstyle and flatpicked guitar arpeggios alike

Start playing guitar in the style of greats like Steve Cropper and Joe Messina

Six chords and the truth with tab and audio

The techniques you need to create a killer groove

Lift and polish mixes with these tried and tested techniques

Try these 70s rock-inspired chord shapes and play along to our backing track

This west London sound broke free from four-to-the-floor rigidity, creating an underground genre that lives on

Diminished 7th heaven

Let’s look beyond subtractive synths and straightforward sampling to find tools that create weird, ear-catching and thoroughly modern drum sounds

Great chords for atmospheric arpeggios

Our guide to the essential shapes