How to change between guitar chords By Total Guitar editors Having learned your first chords, it's time to put them together with some easy techniques to make your transitions easier
How to play old-school blues By Richard Barrett Learn some six-string rhythms in the style of blues heavyweights Howlin' Wolf and Hubert Sumlin
How the guitar works By Total Guitar editors In this beginner guitar lesson, we explain what the different parts of the acoustic and electric guitar do
How to produce greater musical expression and variation while playing up and down one string By Andy Timmons Andy Timmons' debut column will teach you new ideas for incorporating melodies in your soloing
How to hold a guitar and a guitar pick By Total Guitar editors Beginners! Before you master the guitar, you've got to learn how to hold it. Fix your posture and your playing will follow
Learn 20 essential rock rhythm guitar styles By Total Guitar editors From grunge and metal power riffing to cowboy chord arpeggios, open G folk and math-rock fingerpicking
How to play guitar chords By Total Guitar editors In this beginner lesson, learn your first guitar chords and the building blocks of rhythm guitar
Greg Koch shows you how to solo over a blues shuffle in the style of Albert Collins By Greg Koch Learn to alternate between parallel major and minor pentatonics, and incorporate jazzy chord substitutions
9 guitar tricks you can learn from the Foo Fighters By Total Guitar editors Layering guitars, powerchords, droning melodies – it's time to learn what makes Dave Grohl and co sound so massive
How to dial in a guitar amp By Total Guitar editors Beginners, step this way: here's how to find a decent sound on your amplifier
How to tune a guitar By Total Guitar editors New to guitar? It's time to learn the most important lesson of all: the names of the strings and which way to turn the tuners
How to set bass pickups for optimum tone By Rob Elrick Ace luthier Rob Elrick brings decades of wisdom to the table, and here he unpacks the essential business of pickup height
Total Guitar created a scientifically perfect guitar solo – here’s what it sounds like and how to play it By Total Guitar editors We've followed the science. It's time to shred. Are you ready for Franken-solo?
5 things all beginner guitarists need to know By Total Guitar editors Learning how to play guitar? Read this!
Expand your chops with this uptempo funk rhythm video lesson By Jason Sidwell Improve your funk playing with this exclusive video lesson, with tab and downloadable backing track
How to two-hand tap like Eddie Van Halen By Andy Aledort This hands-on and tabbed lesson offers a comprehensive primer in Eddie's signature lead style, as well as a brief history of two-hand tapping itself
Glitch guitar: 7 creative ways to destroy and rebuild your riffs By Guitar World Staff Learn how to get the gnarly sounds popularized by the likes of Radiohead, Nine Inch Nails and math-rock
50 guitar chords you need to know By Total Guitar editors Boost your guitar vocabulary with fingerstyle-friendly shapes and everyday essentials, plus complex jazz voicings
Molly Tuttle shows you how to play traditional bluegrass lines and Over the Line By Molly Tuttle Bluesy, chromatic licks are on the menu with this exercise in old-school bluegrass methodology
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