Five Eddie Van Halen Licks You Need to Know (And How to Play Them) By Guitar World Staff Grab your guitar and learn a few of Eddie's signature licks.
Guitar 911: Five Guitar Repair Safety Tips By Joe Becker There are a lot of chemicals used on guitars, and there are safety issues with which to be concerned—for the guitar and the person using it.
Five Essential Warm-Up Exercises from Joe Satriani, Frank Gambale and More By Guitar World Staff Five essential exercises to keep your digits in top shape.
Outside-the-Box Shred Lesson: A Tribute to the Late, Great Shawn Lane By Mike Orlando Learn some great Shawn Lane-style licks with this lesson.
Guitar Chalk Sessions: Methods for Targeting Problem Areas in Your Guitar Solos By Bobby Kittleberger Be willing to critique yourself and to put in the boring practice time fixing the areas where you’re falling short.
Eerie Arpeggios: Using Movable Addb2 Shapes to Create Haunting Lead Lines By Jimmy Brown Learn how to create eerie, twisted-sounding melodies with this lesson.
Achieving Absolute Fretboard Mastery, Part 8 By Steve Stine Get a practical understanding of the CAGED system so you can start applying it in your own playing.
Guitarists' Seven Most Common Mistakes in the Recording Studio By Ron Zabrocki Some mistakes guitarists often make in the recording studio—and how to avoid them.
Enhancing a Basic Progression with Unusual Arpeggios By Joel Hoekstra Learn how to craft a lead that will fortify and enhance the primary rhythm part without overshadowing it.
10 Tips to Boost Your Practice Session By Metal Mike Chlasciak Sure, there are days when we are all inspired to pick up our guitars and play. But what about the other days?
Tapper's Delight: 20 Challenging Tapping Licks By Guthrie Govan Guthrie Govan gives a comprehensive tapping lesson.
Tosin Abasi Lesson: Seven-String Arpeggios By Tosin Abasi Tosin Abasi demonstrates some cool ways to perform a variety of arpeggios on the seven-string guitar.
How to Tune Your Guitar by Ear Using Octaves By Guitar World Staff In this beginners-oriented lesson, learn how to tune your guitar by ear, using octaves.
How to Play Guitar Like Delta Blues Legend Son House By Dale Turner Learn some of the tricks and techniques of blues guitar legend Son House.
Riffs in the Key of Sister Rosetta Tharpe By Damian Fanelli and Jonathan Graham Learn some of the licks Sister Rosetta used and how to apply them into a traditional gospel chord progression and beyond.
How to Incorporate Suspended Chords into Heavy Metal Rhythm Guitar Parts By Metal Mike Chlasciak Learn a few different examples of rhythm-guitar ideas that jump around harmonically and also feature the incorporation of suspended chords.
Jazz Guitar Corner: Building a Jazz Vocabulary — Melodic Minor Over iim7 By Matt Warnock Look at three licks that use melodic minor over a iim7 chord.
A Guide to Randy Rhoads' Acoustic Techniques and Riffs By Dale Turner Take a look at Randy Rhoads' classically influenced acoustic guitar work.
Steve Stevens: The Right Way to Play Billy Idol's "Rebel Yell" By Damian Fanelli Steve Stevens spill the beans about the lick's bluesy roots—and shows you how to play it correctly.
Randy Rhoads' Scales, Blues Licks and Daring Chromatic Maneuvers By Tom Kolb Learn the scales, blues licks and daring chromatic maneuvers of Ozzy's late, great axman.
