Lessons

In this exclusive video feature, the former Deep Purple guitarist and all-round guitar legend demonstrates and explains his stunning clean and distorted lead approaches

Today's biggest-selling bluesman takes you inside the style of the late, great Bluesbreaker and Fleetwood Mac guitarist, and explains why it's all about the phrasing

Get to know the Hendrix Chord and a whole lotta options for adding variety to your blues rhythm playing

Good news and bad news. First, the good: we've adapted MAB's hyper-technical style for single-necked guitars. The bad? Welcome to the toughest shred lesson this side of Planet Gemini

By memorizing scales as blocks, the notes will come to you and let your lead playing take flight

Taking inspiration from Muddy Waters' Rollin' Stone, this lesson will teach you how to make your one guitar sound fuller

Got a wicked clean tone but don't know what to play? Step right this way...

Crank up the delay, and grab a Strat, SG or ES-335: it's time to take a look at the bluesier side of the Texan virtuoso and Grammy award winner

The Red Hot Chili Peppers guitarist borrows from the best and puts them through his unique filter. Here we take a look at his Hendrix-esque rhythm and fuzzed-out Strat soloing approach

It's time to dig out the flattop and learn the blues with this exercise that combines elements of Eric Clapton, Robert Johnson, and Skip James

If you've never thought about getting an EBow, this lesson on legato with the infinite-sustain device might just change your mind

Guitar arpeggios are one of the great building blocks in jazz soloing – we show you how to build your own vocabulary using some essential shapes

With a new solo album out, the Haken guitarist and Guitar Techniques tutor is on a mission to challenge your picking and fretting hands – and to test your theory skills

Eric Clapton, Peter Green, Jeff Beck, Mick Taylor and Jimmy Page in one in-depth blues lesson. It's time to fire up the Bluesbreaker and dig in...

In our great Erotic Cake-off, our star baker is the aristocratic Guthrie Govan. Here you’ll discover a handful of tasty licks from the UK guitar master

Using the jazz melodic minor scale as a launch pad, this lesson unpacks some of Professor Fujita's signature approaches to melding blues with jazz, and finding new avenues for musical exploration

With Led Zeppelin, Page drew from all quarters of the musical landscape, but his exhilarating style was rooted in the blues

Fine-tune the action once and for all at the less obvious end of the neck

Learn how to bend it like Beck can with our rundown of the former Yardbird's signature techniques and musical style

At the beginning, slide guitar can be tricky. Here are five technical tips to get you started