Lessons

Jimmie Vaughan is a bona-fide blues great, whose techniques are compulsory learning for any guitarist. This tab and audio lesson takes you into his style, and how you can spice up your pentatonic lines with Dorian flavor

Here are five ideas to get started with DADGAD tuning, so you can get on with the important business of writing the next Kashmir

The Sylosis virtuoso teaches you five approaches to improve your metal guitar solos – and make them that bit more sinister

Ditch the pick and dive into these fingerpicking style guitar lessons on some of blues guitar's finest fingerstylists, including Eric Bibb, Rory Gallagher and Leo Kottke

Chords, picking, strumming, riffs, single-note accompaniments, timing: you can never practice rhythm playing enough, and this boot camp will hone your skills in all sorts of styles

The blues maestro shows you how to combine chromaticism, diminished patterns and ii-V-i's – but don't be alarmed: it's easier than it sounds, and opens up the doors for radical guitar improv

Get your fingers working independently of each other and the fretboard will really open up

Learn a highly shreddable version of this Christmas carol classic, inspired by Satriani and May

The British shredder shares an exclusive video lesson in her signature soloing style – and it'll take you from pentatonics to melodic tapping and beyond

At some point it is inevitable: our blues playing starts to get old. Josh Smith walks you through concepts to expand your blues vocab and help your solos stay fresh over those changes

Video lesson: “For the most part, people just know three chords and the pentatonic scale. That is a cul-de-sac!" Let Robben Ford be your guide to the way out…

Develop your alternating bassline picking and bluegrass soloing techniques with this country rhythm workout

Kirk Fletcher is destroying clichés one lick at a time, and this tab and audio lesson takes an in-depth look at his style

Melodically OTT, technically on point even when on the trampoline or underwater, Li is one of shred guitar’s greatest showmen

Learn the distinctive pentatonic licks of the Les Paul-toting Southern rock master

We look at what makes the Chicago great's pentatonic playing essential learning for generations of blues guitarists

In this exclusive lesson, the Strat maestro shows you how to blur the line between the two disciplines and inject lead hooks into your rhythm playing

Schooled in Stevie Ray Vaughan and Jimi Hendrix, the Canadian Strat sage teaches you some of his most raucous licks in this exclusive lesson

The blues maestro puts the fabled 1960 Gibson Les Paul Standard through its paces in this exclusive lesson

Go deep into the art form, with this comprehensive lesson on the art of the blues, designed to build your chops and invigorate your practice