Bolster your rhythmic arsenal by learning how to cycle dotted-quarter syncopations By Jimmy Brown Learn a technique employed in songs like the Cars' Good Times Roll and David Bowie's Suffragette City
Dial your solos up to epic levels with this '80s rock ballad lesson By Richard Barrett Achieve those stadium-shattering leads with this easy-to-follow primer
How to play the solo in Whitesnake's Trouble Is Your Middle Name By Joel Hoekstra Guitarist Joel Hoekstra teaches you the winding leads of this attitude-driven rocker
Bring a new dimension to your acoustic playing with this guide to percussive guitar techniques By George Howlett How you can better utilize the acoustic guitar's rhythmic capacity
Sick Riffs: Becca Stevens teaches you the enrapturing acoustic lines of Heather's Letters to Her Mother By Sam Roche Learn to play the closing track from the singer/songwriter's latest album, WONDERBLOOM - in full!
Supercharge your pentatonic solos with the six-note major hexatonic scale By Andy Aledort Adding one scale degree to major pentatonic can yield a plethora of exciting new lead-writing opportunities
Learn to play slide guitar like George Harrison By Harrison Marsh We break down the Beatle's unique take on this technique in this easy-to-follow lesson
Sick Riffs: Erik Paulson teaches you the captivating clean opening riff of Remo Drive's Star Worship - with tab! By Sam Roche The track is taken from the duo's upcoming album, A Portrait Of An Ugly Man
Sick Riffs: January Jane's Mitch Mitchell teaches you a virtuosic acoustic alternate picker By Sam Roche "I wrote this riff a couple of minutes before filming the video," the guitarist jokes
Sick Riffs: Brett Newski teaches you the chord progression behind self-dubbed "loser wave" track, D.I.Y. By Sam Roche All you need is a guitar, a capo and a laidback attitude. Oh, and a kazoo - but that one's optional...
Sick Riffs: Nick McLernon of Make Them Suffer teaches you his gnarly pre-show warm-up riff By Sam Roche Get those fingers moving and practice your pinch harmonics
Sick Riffs: Tom Keifer teaches you Hype's down-tuned, single-string swagger By Sam Roche The all-E-string riff is taken from the Keifer Band's 2019 album Rise
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
This hilarious yet informative lesson is like no guitar playthrough you've ever seen before By Sam Roche Beware of Darkness's Kyle Nicolaides delivers part guitar class, part stand-up, part coaching session
The basics of rhythm notation for guitarists By Alex Bruce Master notation basics in this simple and easy-to-follow lesson
