Best guitar picks 2021: find the right plectrums for you By Jonathan Horsley Our guide to the best picks for bass, acoustic and electric guitar
5 tips to help you release more music, more often By Udi Glaser As guitarists, we're excellent at writing riffs - but finishing entire songs? That's another story...
How to write guitar solos: 10 essential tips By Ron Zabrocki Catapult your lead lines into the stratosphere with these tried-and-tested compositional tricks
Bring a new dimension to your acoustic playing with this guide to percussive guitar techniques By George Howlett How you can better utilize the acoustic guitar's rhythmic capacity
Accelerate your rhythmic understanding with this lesson on eighth-note syncopations By Jimmy Brown We break down a widely used rhythmic tool, and how bands like Black Sabbath, AC/DC and Deep Purple use the concept in their riffs
Save 20% off Ukutune's 23” Concert Uke – includes free shipping By Guitar World Staff Get $26 off with this ukulele sale code, plus free case and spare strings
Give your solos a sinister edge with the diminished scale By Charlie Griffiths Explore the scale beloved of Fredrik Thordendal and Allan Holdsworth with symmetrical fretboard shapes, Dim7 chords and a fresh perspective on major triads
Harley Benton’s ST-Travel guitar offers full scale-length playability at an insanely low $74 price tag By Richard Bienstock Basswood body, maple neck and fretboard and a trio of single coils round out the impressive package
Allan Holdsworth's "secret" scale is one of the ultimate examples of 'outside' playing - here's how to use it By Richard Bienstock Instructor Juan Antonio shows you a cool “tension-building concept”
Get to know a staple of gypsy jazz: the A harmonic minor scale By Stéphane Wrembel Thoroughly learning all positions of the scale will enable you to traverse the fretboard with total fluency
Cory Wong shows you how to sharpen up your rhythmic precision in this exclusive lesson By Adrian Clark The Vulfpeck funk maestro reveals how a solid grasp of rhythm and timing enhances every aspect of your playing, including leads
Guitar stars including Mateus Asato, Felix Martin and Allen Hinds tear it up in this insane all-star jam By Richard Bienstock The Resonance Project’s Yas Nomura assembles a neo-soul uber-jam over Neo Thangka
Polyphia’s Tim Henson demonstrates jaw-dropping ‘God Hand’ 8-string slapping riff - and teaches you how to play it By Michael Astley-Brown The trap-shred prodigy teaches you his latest Tosin Abasi-inspired thump lines
Whitesnake's Joel Hoekstra: how to solo over a ballad By Joel Hoekstra The hard-rock virtuoso walks you through the essentials of power ballad soloing, where melody is always king
This in-depth lesson on the Rolling Stones’ You Can’t Always Get What You Want nails Keith Richards’ guitar parts like never before By Richard Bienstock LA-based guitarist Jon MacLennan is back with an even deeper dive into Keef’s secret guitar tuning
Supercharge your pentatonic solos with the six-note major hexatonic scale By Andy Aledort Adding one scale degree to major pentatonic can yield a plethora of exciting new lead-writing opportunities
Learn to play slide guitar like George Harrison By Harrison Marsh We break down the Beatle's unique take on this technique in this easy-to-follow lesson
Enhance your leads by fully grasping the harmonic minor scale By Stéphane Wrembel Gypsy jazz master Stéphane Wrembel shows you how to implement this widely used scale in your solos
Spice up your soloing with Eric Johnson’s guide to playing multiple pentatonics over a root chord By Richard Bienstock EJ returns with his fifth video mini-lesson
Sharpen up your theory with this primer on eighth notes and rests By Jimmy Brown Get to grips with the most widely used rhythm in popular music
