Guitar Techniques Lessons

Any player nicknamed Kingfish is bound to know their scales, but it's how this young maestro uses them in his solos that's key. We look at his immaculate phrasing and note choice, with video and tab to guide you

Turn your attention to the more musical side of lead guitar with four ways to develop a solo

We unpack the Brazilian maestro's signature style, whipping your sweep, hybrid and alternate picking into shape

Jeff Beck was a player like no other. He was the GOAT. We can't make you play like him, but this lesson shows how you can incorporate his style and make your blues more expressive

Plot an escape route from your routine licks with this tab and audio lesson

Your technique will improve tenfold if you know which areas of your playing need most attention. Follow our checklist to see where you can get better

Making it up as you go along is harder than it looks. Here's how you can improve at improv and quick, with five examples and three ideas of where you can take your improvisation from there

These five ideas will get you thinking about crafting intros like Joe Bonamassa and friends

Sheeran is proof you can become a megastar with only an acoustic, a looper pedal, and, oh, a ton of talent. Here, we’re going to workshop your DADGAD fingerstyle chops so you’re stadium-ready, too

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

How the Austin, TX, genre polymath's signature style can modernize your blues leads

The former Deep Purple guitar legend checks in with an exclusive track – and tab to help you play along

It might have taken Bonamassa a minute (or a few decades) to fall for the SG’s charms, but now he has in a big way, and this video lesson offers a taste of what the Gibson double-cut can do

Inspired by the great Albert Lee, this lesson takes another pass at the major pentatonic and offers some practical approaches to make it shine in your playing

Simply rearranging the notes can make basic chords sound infinitely more exciting

With B.B. King, an intro was a meal in itself. Here are 10 examples with tab and audio on how you can grab your audience's attention from the first bars of your solo

In this exclusive video lesson, the wonderful Eric Bibb unpacks his signature style. Grab an acoustic and loosen up, it's time to get started...

We can't make you look as cool as the Stones but maybe we can make you play like them. Here we'll be throwing our guitars into Open G and digging out the slide, with plenty of licks in standard tuning, too

In this metal rhythm lesson, we take the art form back to the source, the Black Sabbath guitarist who launched a thousand riffs