60-Second Songwriting: Songwriting Building Blocks—Tempo and Rhythm By Mark Bacino The tempo and rhythm of your tune are crucial elements of song creation, yet they’re probably the most neglected in the songwriting process.
How To Cheat at Sweep Picking By Guitar World Staff Explore a style of sweep picking that makes life easier on your right hand.
How to Incorporate Finger Slides and Legato Techniques into Intricate Phrases By Mark Holcomb Employing finger slides can inspire new and different melodic ideas.
Add Some "Speed" with This Simple Shred-Style Lick By Will Wallner This simple shred lick is easy to learn and has many applications.
How to Play Fast Arpeggio-Based Licks Without Sweep Picking By Marty Friedman Marty Friedman demonstrates some cool ways you can achieve the effect of fast arpeggio-based sounds while avoiding the predictability of standard sweep-picking licks.
Learn the Fretboard Like Joe Pass By Matt Warnock This Joe Pass concept will help you always have a harmonic and melodic device close by.
How to Use Your Whammy Bar Within a Riff By Dave Davidson Use your whammy bar to “color” chord patterns and give single-note lines different and unusual textures.
Romancing the Fretboard: Chopin Arranged for Guitar By John Petrucci Try to nail John Petrucci's six-string arrangement of Chopin's Piano Concerto in A minor, Opus No. 2.
The Bleak, Ominous Second-Inversion Minor Chord By Jimmy Brown Tell an engaging story and make a powerful statement with second-inversion minor chords.
A Guide to Sweep Arpeggios with Chromatic Runs By Sammy Boller Learn how to add chromatic runs to your sweep arpeggios.
Arpeggio Studies Based on the Cycle of Fourths By Andy Aledort Two of the most prevalent types of chord progressions are those based on cycles of fourths or fifths.
Zakk Wylde Lesson: How to Link Minor Pentatonic Scale Patterns By Zakk Wylde Link a few scale patterns together so you can start making full use of your guitar’s neck when you’re playing a lead.
Six Simple Tips to Better Guitar Playing By Damian Fanelli and Guitar World Staff Six of the most useful of the thousands of tips for guitarists we've offered in our three and a half decades of publication.
Skipping Scale Steps on an Ascending Run By Joel Hoekstra Skipping certain scale steps can lead to more engaging, less predictable ascending runs.
The Six Most Important Chord Progressions in Jazz By Tyler Larson These progressions provide a landscape for extremely creative guitar playing.
Bring Out the Sound of Each Chord in Your Solos By Matt Wong Explore the right chord tones to play over changes, and how to bring out the sound of each chord in a progression in your solos.
The 10 Hardest Guitar Chords: See If You Can Play These By Christopher Scapelliti Looking for a new challenge? See if you can play these 10 guitar chords.
Joe Satriani's Guide to Building Chords from “Stacked” Fourths By Joe Satriani Satch demonstrates some interesting things you can do with stacked fourths.
Ninth Chords Made Easy By Matt Warnock Learn how you can use “rootless” ninth chords to expand your jazz-guitar vocabulary without having to learn any new shapes.
More Methods for Constructing Powerful, Expressive Solos By Richie Faulkner Judas Priest's Richie Faulkner teaches you how to develop powerful solos that contain your own melodic touch.
