Latest articles by Charlie Griffiths
Unlock every pick color – from warmth and brightness to the secretive clarinet tone
Six different ways to get the most from your 8-string guitar by Haken’s Charlie Griffiths
We delve into the mad, brilliant lead phrasing and fearsome alternate picking of one of guitar's true masters
Applying classical training to the service of heavy metal, Rhoads was the generational guitar talent that helped launch Ozzy Osbourne's solo career
Punk's not dead. Punk's never been more alive, and in the hands of Fontaines D.C., Idles, and ever-popular stadium-rockers Green Day, it's evolving all the time. This tab and audio lesson mines the genre's history to show you just how stylistically diverse it has become
One of the most influential guitar players of his generation, Thordendal’s low-end, rhythmically complex assaults have changed the shape and sound of metal
Hell awaits your forearm in this punishing tutorial in the late Hanneman's style, but it will soon whip your downpicking and tapping skills into shape
Mixing alternate picking with smooth legato runs, book smart theory with the instincts of a berserker, Skolnick took Testament to a new level
The fusion master influenced a generation of players, and this lesson will show you why – and make you a cleaner, more accurate player in the process
Take your playing to another realm with this lesson in Holdsworth’s legato, string skipping and that unique ability of his to find new patterns in scales
Get warmed up and dialed in for a lesson that's going to whip your legato, tapping and sweep picking into shape
Mancuso's debut LP The Journey is a tour de force of technique and imagination. We take a look at how the young Italian virtuoso's approach can make you a better player now
We unpack the Brazilian maestro's signature style, whipping your sweep, hybrid and alternate picking into shape
Get ready for a physical education for the fingers and a full brain workout as we unpack the Animals as Leaders guitarist's signature techniques, e.g. tapping, thumping, splitting the atom...
Take your playing to a higher plane of existence with this study of Mika Tyyskä, the Finnish creator of the animated shredder
Alternate picking, legato, sweep picking... we're throwing the kitchen sink at this one for an intense workshop in the Alter Bridge shred captain's six-string approach
The Sylosis virtuoso teaches you five approaches to improve your metal guitar solos – and make them that bit more sinister
The British shredder shares an exclusive video lesson in her signature soloing style – and it'll take you from pentatonics to melodic tapping and beyond
Melodically OTT, technically on point even when on the trampoline or underwater, Li is one of shred guitar’s greatest showmen
In this exclusive lesson, the Strat maestro shows you how to blur the line between the two disciplines and inject lead hooks into your rhythm playing
Take your metal playing to a new level with this lesson on the uncompromising style of the late, great Pantera icon
Influenced by the orchestral sweep of John Williams and the neoclassical madness of Yngwie Malmsteen, the Symphony X mastermind is a formidable shred talent, and this tab and audio lesson isn't for the fainthearted
Improve your alternate picking, arpeggios and tapping skills with these 5 lessons in the style of the Arch Enemy virtuoso
