Total Guitar editors

Shape up your playing and focus on the skills you need to be the best live guitarist you can be

Plug in and rock out as Total Guitar gets hot for teaching Eddie Van Halen’s trademark riffs and techniques

Get to grips with timing and layering overdubs using our guide to looping

Get to grips with an essential lead guitar technique with this easy lesson

Set your Dyna Comp to stun as we go through the styles of Jason Isbell, James Burton, Brent Mason and more

Beginner guitar: add one note to the minor pentatonic scale and unlock the formula for countless classic-rock riffs

Having learned your first chords, it's time to put them together with some easy techniques to make your transitions easier

A beginner's guide on how to strum chords in time

In this beginner guitar lesson, we explain what the different parts of the acoustic and electric guitar do

Beginners! Before you master the guitar, you've got to learn how to hold it. Fix your posture and your playing will follow

From grunge and metal power riffing to cowboy chord arpeggios, open G folk and math-rock fingerpicking

Layering guitars, powerchords, droning melodies – it's time to learn what makes Dave Grohl and co sound so massive

Beginners, step this way: here's how to find a decent sound on your amplifier

We've followed the science. It's time to shred. Are you ready for Franken-solo?

Boost your guitar vocabulary with fingerstyle-friendly shapes and everyday essentials, plus complex jazz voicings