Music tuition

An accessible beginner lesson to get you making the moves like Django – including your first gypsy jazz chord

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

Guitar skills: From Jimi Hendrix to John Mayer, countless players have used diads to add chord-like tone to their solos

Get on the good foot with this most seminal of grooves

Guitar skills: Learn the leads and rhythms behind Passion & Warfare

Guitar skills: Integrate natural, artificial and tapped harmonics with this Yes, Rush-style lesson

ACM expert Shea shouts about his favourite sound design tricks for mutating the human voice into unique melodic instruments

Craft a classic riser with Massive X

More on the flexible softsynth

Guitar skills: Get to grips with the technique used by blues greats including Eric Clapton and Gary Moore

How to wow with short bursts of pace

Use Komplete Kontrol to write a track in Ableton

Get to grips with MPE and use it with your ROLI controller

Guitar skills: Go back to the building blocks of rock

Make sure all your plugins are under kontrol

Guitar skills: Open the door to new creative possibilities with these varied tunings

Guitar skills: Enhance your blues and beyond with these shapes

Guitar skills: An essential blues trick to breathe new life into you notes – tab and audio included

Guitar skills: Shine on you crazy Gm6