How to play blues scale riffs By Total Guitar editors Beginner guitar: add one note to the minor pentatonic scale and unlock the formula for countless classic-rock riffs
How to change between guitar chords By Total Guitar editors Having learned your first chords, it's time to put them together with some easy techniques to make your transitions easier
How the guitar works By Total Guitar editors In this beginner guitar lesson, we explain what the different parts of the acoustic and electric guitar do
How to hold a guitar and a guitar pick By Total Guitar editors Beginners! Before you master the guitar, you've got to learn how to hold it. Fix your posture and your playing will follow
How to play guitar chords By Total Guitar editors In this beginner lesson, learn your first guitar chords and the building blocks of rhythm guitar
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
5 things all beginner guitarists need to know By Total Guitar editors Learning how to play guitar? Read this!
Beginner guitar: how to play 7th chords By Total Guitar editors Expand your chord repertoire with this easy-to-follow lesson
Beginner guitar: how to take your first steps with lead guitar By Chris Bird Start your lead playing journey with TG’s easy lesson on two essentials: the minor pentatonic scale and string bends
Beginner guitar: how to play minor chords By Total Guitar editors Improve your playing and get to grips with the theory behind minor chords
Beginner guitar: how to play chord tone solos By Total Guitar editors Ditch scale shapes and use chord tones for a creative approach to your first guitar solos
Beginner guitar: expand your chord knowledge with these simple suspended shapes By Total Guitar editors Go beyond basic majors and launch your playing to a new level
Beginner guitar: how to play scales By Total Guitar editors Get your head around this essential musical building block and learn two of the important scales: pentatonic and major
Beginner guitar: how to play fingerstyle guitar By Chris Bird, James Uings Steady up your acoustic skills with this fingerpicking lesson
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
