Five Simple Reasons Your Solos Sound Cheap By Bobby Kittleberger Your guitar solos will always sound a little predictable to your own ear. But what if you’re doing something that’s causing your solos and lead work to sound bland?
A Guide to Low-Down Sweep Picking Blues By Tyler Larson Two types of sweep picking exercises that cater to a bluesy tonality and feel.
Riffer Madness: Dimebag Darrell on Harmonics By Dimebag Darrell Dimebag Darrell talks harmonics: "How to get 'em, where you can find 'em and what you can do with 'em."
Doug Aldrich Master Class: 10 Steps to Monster Chops, Part II By Doug Aldrich and Andy Aledort Guitarist extraordinaire Doug Aldrich offers a slew of exciting and inspiring licks and technical exercises to help you become the player you aspire to be.
How to Seamlessly Play Arpeggios Over Three Octaves By Adrian Galysh Take simple three note arpeggios and learn how to play them seamlessly over three octaves.
Relocating Familiar Scalar Patterns to Different Areas of the Fretboard By John Petrucci John Petrucci teaches you the formation of specific scalar patterns, or “shapes,” and how to connect them while traversing the fretboard.
String Bending in Blues Lead Guitar By Guitar World Staff Learn the mechanics behind successful string bending and specifically how—and when—to use it in blues lead guitar.
Jazz Guitar Corner: Learn to Play Three Classic Jazz Blues Licks By Matt Warnock You'll have plenty of musical ammo for your jazz-blues solos once you pick up these licks.
More Approaches to Soloing on a Pair of Adjacent Strings By Andy Aledort Learn how to solo on the B and G strings, plus how to remain on them while traversing up and down the fretboard.
Five Underrated Led Zeppelin Guitar Riffs—and How to Play Them By Damian Fanelli If you're tired of playing the same old Led Zeppelin riffs (and who isn't?), you're in luck.
Incorporating Groups of Five 16th Notes in Guitar Solos By Elliott Klein Challenge yourself with this difficult 16th note exercise.
Improve Your Soloing Technique with a Few Tricks By Monique Hernandez-Fuentes Looking for ways to spruce up your soloing technique? Look no further.
Using First-Inversion Chords to Create Smooth Bass Motion By Jimmy Brown Some musically appealing ways that great songwriters have used first-inversion chords to craft progressions behind their melodies.
How Alternate Picking is Just "Small Strumming" By Ben Higgins There's more than one way to physically approach alternate picking.
Stevie Ray Vaughan Lesson: How to Play "Couldn't Stand the Weather" By Andy Aledort An in-depth look at the title track to Vaughan's second album.
What Guitarists Get Wrong When They Play AC/DC's "Dirty Deeds" By Guitar World Staff Learn the proper way to play this AC/DC classic.
Repurposing Pentatonic Scales in New Contexts By Plini Repurposing all of your favorite pentatonic licks in different musical contexts and key centers will help you allude to different chords and modes.
Building Eighth- and 16th-Note Rock Rhythms By Bobby Kittleberger Add a ton of variety to your rhythm riffs with a fairly small amount of guitar music theory.
Joe Satriani's Guide to Jimi Hendrix-Style R&B Rhythm Guitar By Joe Satriani Satch gives a comprehensive lesson on Hendrix-style R&B rhythm guitar.
Expand Your Melodic Colors with 9th Arpeggios By Matt Warnock Add a bit of harmonic color to your ideas with 9th arpeggios.
