Leveling Up Your Licks: Exploring Four-Note Patterns and Permutations By Oli Herbert Enjoy one of the late Oli Herbert's terrific Guitar World lesson videos.
Learn 216 Chords in 16 Minutes By Guitar World Staff This lesson is one of the more valuable ways a guitarist can spend a quarter of an hour.
How to Build Shredding Speed By Steve Stine Shredding is fairly easy to learn but hard to master. Learn how to truly master it with these exercises.
Slide Guitar Technique: The Five Essentials By Ben Martin Slide guitar, at the beginning, can be quite tricky. Here are five technical tips to get you started.
“Mirroring” Fretboard Shapes 12 Frets Higher with Taps By Joel Hoekstra Learn how to take a fretboard shape for a given note sequence and “octave mirror” it by “previewing” each note an octave higher.
Half-Whole Diminished Harmony for Jazz Guitar By Matt Warnock One of the most commonly used but tricky scales in jazz guitar is the half-whole diminished scale. Learn how to master it here.
How to Use the Dark Sound of the Phrygian Mode’s “Flatted” Intervals By Metal Mike Chlasciak Examine how the Phrygian Mode can be utilized for heavy-metal riffs and solos.
Two-Hand Tapping Workout, Part 2: Diatonic Scales By Adrian Galysh Improve your tapping skills with this two-hand workout.
Ten Rules for Blues Soloing By Guitar World Staff Ten rules budding guitarists should follow when attempting a blues solo.
More Great Ways in Which Songwriters Have Used First-Inversion Chords By Jimmy Brown Learn some compositionally effective ways in which first-inversion chords have been used in popular music.
A Pattern-Based Soloing Approach By Andy Aledort Get the most out of sticking within a single fretboard position.
How to Play Stevie Ray Vaughan's "Pride and Joy" Shuffle By Keith Wyatt Learn how to nail a complete blues shuffle, a lá Stevie Ray Vaughan's "Pride and Joy."
Getting Your Chops in Tip-Top Shape By Nita Strauss Nita Strauss shares her preferred warm-up and practice methods and demonstrates some effective exercises for developing fret-hand dexterity and finger independence.
Using Your Vibrato Bar Creatively and Tastefully By Plini Though derided by some as cliché, the whammy bar can offer a really fun and expressive way to expand your sound.
Three Ways to Be a Truly Great Guitarist By Ben Higgins Three tips that can help you play better right now.
Learning to Speak Musically with Your Own Unique Accent By Richie Faulkner Judas Priest's Richie Faulkner teaches you how to interpret the musical language of your heroes, and utilize it in your own unique way.
What to Think About When Improvising a Guitar Solo By Damian Fanelli Learn what should go on "inside the mind" of guitar players when jamming, improvising or soloing.
How to Play Thrash Metal By Martin Goulding Learn five riffs that demonstrate thrash metal's signature elements, presented in the styles of five key bands.
Try Out Some Mutant Pentatonics By Scott Marano Learn an innovative, uncharted, yet somehow familiar framework for untapped creative endeavors using basic ideas you're already extremely comfortable with.
How to Harmonize Improvised Melodies Within the Structure of E Major Pentatonic By Andy Aledort Learn how to traverse the fretboard while staying diatonic to a specific scale.
