Song Lessons

Barre chords might be hurting your song more than helping – switching up your shapes could better serve your emotional intent

In his inaugural Guitar World lesson column, authored in 1996, the legendary bassist also revealed why he used pick to lay the song down in the studio – and why he later would use an eight-string bass to play it live

Hell awaits in this lesson in the era-defining riffing style of thrash metal's most dynamic duo

Sail the seven seas of rock with Total Guitar’s wailing version of the viral 19th century sea shanty

Total Guitar brings you an arrangement of the 19th-century Russian folk tune, Korobeiniki, that became world-famous thanks to the 1980s Nintendo videogame