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Power up your inner shredder: Gus G shares his ultimate guitar warm-ups
Before every gig, Firewind and Ozzy's virtuoso hones his chops with focused drills for sweeping, slurring, and string jumping. Steal his six essential exercises to level up your own metal technique
Eddie Van Halen used it, Jimmy Page loved it, and all of your heavy metal heroes have tried it – drop D made drop-dead simple
Drop D tuning is one of the easiest alternate tunings to get to grips with. Here’s our step-by-step guide
Guitarists always talk about down-picking, but have you worked on your up-picking lately? Here's why it could be a game-changer for your playing
Mastering confident upstrokes can take your playing to the next level, whatever style you play
Metronome magic: master your picking, improve timing, and build up speed – one click at a time
Still ignoring the metronome? These seven examples prove it’s the secret weapon behind precision, speed, and control
When tapping's not shredding: how to play tapped harmonics like Eddie Van Halen
Tapped harmonics were among Eddie Van Halen's trademark techniques. Learn how to make your guitar scream and sing
The secret behind Marcin, Matteo and Paco? How rest note picking can improve your tone, speed and volume
Paco Peña, Marcin Patrzałek and Matteo Mancuso all use rest strokes to play powerful single notes – here's how to make them work for you
Can you keep up? 6 minor pentatonic licks that go FASTER!
Turbo-boost your pentatonic lead playing by learning from Nuno Bettencourt, Joe Bonamassa, Jimmy Page and more
How to play slide guitar: 5 essential techniques every aspiring slide player needs to learn
At the beginning, slide guitar can be tricky. Here are five technical tips to get you started
