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.
Zeroing-in on Your Own Signature Sound By Richie Faulkner Judas Priest's Richie Faulkner demonstrates how to create solos that feel and sound new and exciting.
Seven Ways to Spice Up Your Rhythm Guitar Playing By Guitar World Staff Ever get the feeling you're putting too much emphasis on your lead playing and ignoring your rhythm playing? It happens a lot.
Guitar Exercises That Don't Suck By Tyler Larson Redesign your practice routine around guitar exercises that won't wear you out.
Combining Rhythm and Lead Effectively By Nita Strauss Nita Strauss dishes on how to seamlessly integrate rhythm and lead techniques into a single unified, powerful guitar part.
How to Build a Guitar Solo Using Thematic Development By Andy Aledort Build a musical “story” with your solos.
The Scale That Will Change Your Life By Adrian Galysh This scale can profoundly expand the scope of your solos.
An Allan Holdsworth-Inspired Pentatonic Run By Glenn Proudfoot Learn a terrific and challenging Allan Holdsworth-inspired lick.
Diminished Arpeggios: Using Small Arpeggio Shapes and Inversions By Baron Taurean Helleshaar Develop your technique, and make your solos more musical and expressive.
Cracking the Code with Troy Grady: Albert Lee's Country Curve By Troy Grady Dive deep into Albert Lee's incredibly fluid country picking with this lesson.
60-Second Songwriting: Songwriting Building Blocks—Chord Progressions By Mark Bacino Take a look at the basic function of the chord progression through the specific lens of the songwriter.
Using Tapping for Scale Runs By Ben Higgins Tap through three-note-per-string scalar runs by using the tapped note to replace the third or fourth finger.
The Guitarist's Guide to Shape Shifting, Part 1 By Scott Marano Navigate greater expanses of fretboard terrain with this technique.
