Jon Bishop

Luscious legato, hot hybrid picking, busy blues bends and creative chromaticism are the trademarks of Nick Johnston. Here are five of his favorite lead approaches

Manuel presents his percussive strumming, tapped harmonics, selective picking, and Hetfield-inspired downpicking approaches

Turbocharge your fretting hand stretches, screaming bends and blues-rock intensity with the core techniques that shaped Philip Sayce’s signature sound

Learn how to boost your blues to pro levels of authenticity with a handful of great chords and a rock-solid rhythm technique

Deep-dive your technique for powerful intervals with six string-jumping, fretboard-stretching examples from one of the world's most influential super-pickers

Before every gig, Firewind and Ozzy's virtuoso hones his chops with focused drills for sweeping, slurring, and string jumping. Steal his six essential exercises to level up your own metal technique

She wowed Sonny Landreth and Carlos Santana called her the “future” – Erja Lyytinen shares her 6 go-to slide licks for unlocking more expressive soloing

Acoustic phenom Marcin Patrzałek shows you his favorite warm-up exercises

Armed with his custom Fender Stratocaster, Redfern walks us through his signature slide style, and how he accentuates the underlying chord to bring out the melody

Unpacking the techniques pioneered by the likes of Nile Rodgers, Hamish Stuart and Claydes Charles Smith

The Bones UK guitarist is a specialist in baritone licks, pitch-shifted leads, heavy fuzz riffing and all sorts of unorthodox techniques, and we've got a handful of ideas to help you steal her style

The Canadian maestro is your instructor today, and for this lesson you're going to be digging deep for some Texas sizzle and red-hot pentatonic turnarounds

We pay tribute to the kings of twang with this electric masterclass in early rock ’n’ roll instrumental guitar

Tuned D G D G Bb D, open G minor will give you a fresh perspective on the instrument, and with it new chord shapes to learn

Used by the likes of the Goo Goo Dolls, Open C tuning is a simple way to find fresh chord voicings – here are 5 to get you started

Become an acoustic polymath and be comfortable in any musical company with this lesson in styles spanning boygenius to Genesis

With its low C tuning on your sixth string, open Csus2 is a powerful tuning, used to great effect by powerhouse acoustic folk players such as Martin Simpson

A must-learn tuning for folk acoustic styles, open Gsus4 makes for easy chords that sound amazing

A favorite of Australian virtuoso Alan Gogoll, this tuning will expand your acoustic horizons and add a touch of magic to your chord voicings

Loved by the likes of Joni Mitchell and Keith Richards, open G makes a good tuning for bottleneck blues, and these chords are essential voicings for exploring its musical potential

A favorite of Mumford & Sons, open D tunes your guitar to DADF#AD and makes a great platform for fingerstyle blues excursions

Retuning your guitar can fuel your creativity, and when it comes to alternate tunings, DADGAD is a great place to start – especially on acoustic

Starting from ’50s electric blues pioneers, we're bending the blues scale into different shapes, with 30 licks taking us up to the present day as the art form continues to evolve and thrive

Simply unbutton your shirt, wear your guitar low, and walk this way for a masterclass the Aerosmith guitarist's signature style

Farah is a player who will comfortably blow your mind – this lesson is for moderate/advanced players looking to up their alternate-picking game, scalar knowledge, and rhythmic subdivisions