Latest articles by John Wheatcroft
Get ready for a deep-dive bootcamp, complete with 2 visual diagrams and 10 exercises that will increase your confidence and knowledge of the fingerboard
The blues hero shares six lead guitar examples that demonstrate the versatility of the Gibson Les Paul’s pickups, volume and tone controls
Landau’s articulate playing and reference-quality tone makes him one of guitar’s unsung GOATs
Bruce Forman is a jazz guitar master, and these four mini-pieces in his style walk you through soloing strategies and chord choices, sharpening up your technique along the way
Hall's genius with a guitar had profound implications for the jazz band format, as six-strings replaced piano in the rhythm section
This deep dive into the Steely Dan chordal approach is a masterclass in Donald Fagen and Walter Becker’s supreme harmonic awareness
Wilson is a mind-blowing talent, and here he opens his box of tricks to share some licks that will improve your understanding of melodic minor modes
Every guitarist can improve their rhythm game. As Steve Lukather says, “I’ve been paid to play rhythm guitar 90% of the time. It’s harder than it looks”
Session ace, author and teacher, and a guitarist who put mind, body and soul into his playing, the late Dean Brown was a fusion legend. We pay tribute to his physical style
The Texas virtuoso has a phenomenal command of touch, tone and technique – find out how you can apply his playing approaches to your own style
Herring marries the harmonic sophistication of jazz to the power of rock and blues, and this lesson will knock your picking articulation and chord changes into shape
Idolized by B.B. King and George Benson, Django Reinhardt was gypsy jazz guitar’s most legendary player. Improve your jazz vocabulary with this primer in his pyrotechnic style
Improve your voice leading, chordal vocabulary and harmonic tension and release now as we put Ford's style under the microscope in this in-depth lesson
Effortlessly mixing jazz, country and blues, Bryant was one of Albert Lee’s great influences, and his style remains a white-knuckle ride of technique and imagination
Get to grips with a Christmas classic that will improve your chord-melody chops and impress your family
Strap yourself in, it's time for our lesson in the art of Greg Koch – the funny guy with a staggering command of a huge range of styles
A John Scofield lesson is a lesson in melodic choices. In this tab and audio lesson, we dive into his genre-spanning style to hone your jazz chops
We put Metheny's blues motifs, subversion of genre, his use of slurs and slides, unisons, and the targeting of crucial chord tones under the microscope – tabs and audio included
Take a deep dive into the style of one of the best players to have ever picked up a Telecaster, in a lesson that will whip your hybrid picking chops into shape in no time
We might never reach Hendrix levels of god-like genius on the guitar, but how he phrased his leads is a lesson to us all. Here, we look at four examples that will expand your blues vocabulary
A hero to the great Danny Gatton, Billy Butler was a trailblazing player, and this lesson into his jazzy blues style will underpin your technique and improvisational sensibility
This lesson is a veritable boot camp for two-handed tapping and will bring you up to speed for those occasions when it is time to let it rip
Explore George Benson's bluesier side with these blues-jazz phrases and double-stop chord voicings, and learn how to combine them in a way that's rhythmically captivating
