Shake up your songwriting by borrowing chords from a parallel minor key By Jimmy Brown With examples of the technique employed in famous songs across different genres
Get an intense, 'outside' sound with this lick By Glenn Proudfoot Learn an interesting new lick - and give your fingers a workout - with this lesson
Learn the secrets of the blues guitar masters with these essential string-bending techniques By Andy Aledort String bending and vibrato are vital expressive tools for playing blues-rock
Master the signature elements of Gary Moore's instantly identifiable guitar style By Andy Aledort An in-depth examination of Gary Moore’s piercing, deeply emotional guitar work
Bring a new level of rhythm and groove to your guitar playing by incorporating walking basslines By George Howlett An in-depth look at how to bring the goldmine of jazz bass into your guitar playing
Work on your picking hand accuracy with these 4 highly effective warm-ups By Stéphane Wrembel Learn these exercises from one of gypsy jazz pioneer Django Reinhardt's disciples, Stéphane Wrembel
How to tune your guitar to drop D tuning by ear By Jimmy Brown Don't have a tuner lying around? Fear not! Learn this all-powerful alternate tuning the easy way
Take your solos up a notch by using rhythmic note groupings to build musical phrases By Dweezil Zappa Taking a mathematical approach to building solos will reinvigorate your playing
Improve your rhythm playing with these pick-hand warm-up techniques By Stéphane Wrembel 6 exercises to get you in shape and sharpen up your acoustic skills
Zakk Wylde reveals 15 in-depth playing tips that will take your playing from basic to brewtal By Nick Bowcott The living legend joins Guitar World for an exclusive interview and lesson to celebrate the 20th anniversary of Black Label Society
These 9 randomized fretboard patterns will help you explore new musical territory By Dweezil Zappa Dweezil Zappa explains the concept of randomization and how it'll take your playing to the next level
Kickstart your songwriting with these ultra-useful chord progressions By Matt Scharfglass Though no amount of information about songwriting can turn someone into Paul McCartney, this lesson will help you come closer to fully realizing your abilities
Give your major-key compositions a moment of darkness by employing the 'four minor' chord By Jimmy Brown How borrowing chords from parallel minor keys can refresh your songwriting
Learn 9 creative and unusual ways to apply string-bending techniques By Andy Aledort How to use one of the most musically expressive guitar skills to take your playing to new heights
Linking parallel major and minor pentatonic patterns will take your blues playing to the next level - here's how By Andy Aledort Switching between these scales is an essential part of blues soloing
How to set your Floyd Rose's locking nut height By Jack Ellis Fine-tune the action once and for all at the less obvious end of the neck
Beginner guitar: how to play minor pentatonic riffs By Chris Bird Learn how to use this essential scale, with two hard-rock riff tabs and two scale shapes
Learn to play the Tetris theme, prog-metal style - with full tab and audio By Charlie Griffiths Total Guitar brings you an arrangement of the 19th-century Russian folk tune, Korobeiniki, that became world-famous thanks to the 1980s Nintendo videogame
Speed up your leads with this Yngwie Malmsteen-style workout By Chris Brooks This neoclassical shred lesson from Aussie fretboard gymnast Chris Brooks will build speed through economy and alternate picking
Go from Charlie Christian to Chuck Schuldiner with these 6 diverse licks By Pat Heath These licks go from easy to advanced – can you nail them all in 30 minutes?
