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 for beginners 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
Shake up your leads with these one-string bend techniques By Andy Aledort Mastering precise bends on the B string can offer new ideas for pentatonic solos
4 guitar tricks you can learn from Jeff Beck By Richard Barrett Taking a closer look at Beck's Les Paul era, during the '60s British Invasion
Refresh your lead playing with Vinnie Moore's guide to superimposing triads within soloing sequences By Vinnie Moore This lesson will help you cast aside your go-to licks and think deeper about tonality
Molly Tuttle teaches you how to play Good Enough By Molly Tuttle Often performed unaccompanied, Good Enough will teach you to embellish chords with single-note melodies
How to use alternating four- and five-note patterns to add intrigue to your solos By Vinnie Moore Vinnie Moore shares his approach to adding a taste of the unexpected when playing lead guitar
Create twists and turns in your solos with four-note 7th-chord arpeggios By Andy Aledort Expand your understanding by incorporating chromaticism and a “scalar” approach
