Sick Riffs: Brandon Ashley teaches you the grunge-meets-hard-rock main riff of The Dark's Where's Your God By Sam Roche Drop A# tuning and attitude required
Get to know a staple of gypsy jazz: the A harmonic minor scale By Stéphane Wrembel Thoroughly learning all positions of the scale will enable you to traverse the fretboard with total fluency
Sick Riffs: Piotr Turek teaches you the palm-muted sludge onslaught of Telepathy's Pariah By Sam Roche Fan of unusual tunings? You'll love this one
Sick Riffs: Jay Tarantino teaches the sweeptastic lead lines of Etherius's The Rivers of Sand and Blood By Sam Roche Dig out your seven-string - it's about to get technical
Cory Wong shows you how to sharpen up your rhythmic precision in this exclusive lesson By Adrian Clark The Vulfpeck funk maestro reveals how a solid grasp of rhythm and timing enhances every aspect of your playing, including leads
Sick Riffs: Raff Sangiorgio of Devil's Mist teaches you a truly astounding 20-second guitar solo By Sam Roche This stunning passage uses just about every six-string technique available
Sick Riffs: Kieran Shudall teaches you the upbeat pull-off-driven riff of Circa Waves' Jacqueline By Sam Roche Learn the feel-good opener of the band's latest album, Sad happy
Whitesnake's Joel Hoekstra: how to solo over a ballad By Joel Hoekstra The hard-rock virtuoso walks you through the essentials of power ballad soloing, where melody is always king
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: Jesse Dayton teaches you swampy foot-stomper Hurtin' Behind the Pine Curtain By Sam Roche Learn to play this attitude-driven blues-rocker
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
Beginner guitar: how to play chord tones By Total Guitar editors Ditch scale shapes and use chord tones for a creative approach to your first guitar solos
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: Tobi Morelli teaches you the crazy low-end dexterity of Archspire's Join Us Beyond By Sam Roche Learn this tech death-metal riff taken from the band's 2014 album, The Lucid Collective
Spice up your soloing with Eric Johnson’s guide to playing multiple pentatonics over a root chord By Richard Bienstock EJ returns with his fifth video mini-lesson
Sick Riffs: Ben Lee of actor/musician duo Radnor and Lee shows you the gorgeous acoustic line of Welcome to Our House By Sam Roche The other half of the duo is, in fact, How I Met Your Mother's Josh Radnor
Sick Riffs: Palehound's Ellen Kempner teaches you the smooth main riff of Cinnamon By Sam Roche Don't worry - you needn't have a feline spectator to pull off this silky six-string passage
How to install a new 3-way pickup switch By Jack Ellis Our guide to soldering a new switch into your electric guitar - without ruining the circuit
