Beginner guitar: learn CAGED chords and unlock the fretboard By Total Guitar editors This simple chord system will transform your rhythm playing and get you playing across the neck
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Change the mood and spice up your tunes with parallel major and minor keys By Jimmy Brown Impart a touch of sadness or melancholy to an otherwise happy and predictable-sounding progression
The technique secrets of the decade's best guitarists By Jimmy Brown, Sam Roche A rundown of the explosive playing styles of Mark Tremonti, Tosin Abasi, Gary Clark Jr. and Nita Strauss
The ultimate guitar tuning guide: expand your mind with these advanced tuning techniques By George Howlett Go deep with this multi-pronged, hyper-accurate approach to tuning your guitar
Get a private blues lesson from ZZ Top's Billy Gibbons By Guitar World Staff Billy Gibbons teaches you the blues tunes that inspired him to play guitar
Play better than ever with these 5 essential guitar warm-up exercises By Stéphane Wrembel Gypsy jazz guitar master Stéphane Wrembel offers some terrific exercises that will help you develop fret-hand strength
Learn to supercharge your blues solos by seamlessly switching between major and minor pentatonic scales By Andy Aledort All of the greatest blues and rock guitarists - such as T-Bone Walker, B.B. King, Albert King, Eric Clapton and Jimi Hendrix - routinely incorporated this technique into their solos
Expand your creative arsenal by implementing the zero-th fret in your rhythms and leads By George Howlett Explore open strings to create new textures, cluster chords, and scale voicings
Take your improvisation to the next level by listening to your own playing and reacting to it By Dweezil Zappa Dweezil Zappa offers some phenomenal spontaneous soloing strategies
Steve Howe lesson: Learn how to play Yes's Starship Trooper, Siberian Khatru and Mood for a Day By Guitar World Staff Steve Howe shows you how to play the key riffs to several Yes classics
Nick Drake lesson: learn his influential open tunings and inventive fingerpicking patterns By Dale Turner Drake's compositions were in a league of their own - learn more about them in this lesson
Make your compositions soar using augmented climb progressions By Jimmy Brown How to inject a sense of drama into your songwriting
West African grooves: energize your guitar playing with new rhythmic colors and concepts By George Howlett Learn the fundamentals of African guitar approaches with this in-depth lesson
Give your fingers a workout with this monster three-notes-per-string lick By Glenn Proudfoot If you get your fingers used to the wide intervals in this lick, the creative possibilities are endless
Learn how to build solo guitar-based compositions By Julian Lage Jazz guitarist Julian Lage shares a study in orchestration for solo guitar
Open your mind to new sounds with these symmetrical fretboard patterns By Dweezil Zappa Dweezil Zappa shares ideas for fresh melodic shapes
