Applying Second Intervals to Arpeggiated Riff Ideas By Joel Hoekstra Learn how to use second intervals in different areas of the fretboard and on different string groups.
How to Mix Chords with Blues Licks By Christopher Scapelliti Mixing small chords into your blues licks is a great way to give your soloing a more polished sound.
John Petrucci Lesson: Combining Triad Arpeggios to Form Polytonal Chordal Allusions By John Petrucci Learn how to use triadic arpeggio forms within your riffs and solos as a tool to create rich-sounding, poly-chordal sounds.
How to Fortify Power-Chord Ideas with Single-Note Lines and Diads By Metal Mike Chlasciak Learn a variety of ways you can bring more melodic content to your power-chord-driven ideas through the use of single-note lines and small two-note chord voicings.
The Dotted 8th Note Delay Trick By Guitar World Staff A nifty little trick that'll make your six-string soundscapes sound much bigger.
Full Shred with Marty Friedman: Taking Licks You’ve Learned from Others and Making Them Your Own By Marty Friedman Marty Friedman dishes on how to carve out your own niche when you're creating improvised solos.
Tips on Creating a Guitar Practice Schedule By Tyler Larson Learn how to mold your practice routine to fit your specific playing needs.
Martin Miller's 21st-Century Picking Mechanics By Troy Grady Martin Miller's seemingly effortless command of picking mechanics represents the future of what we can all expect a good guitar player to be able to do.
10 Gorgeous "Color Chords" That Can Inspire Your Playing By Christopher Scapelliti Expand your palette of tonal colors with these 10 chords.
Incorporating Tapping Into Minor Scale Patterns By Sammy Boller These shapes are easy to memorize and can cover a lot of ground in various musical styles and situations.
How to Use Open Strings for Blues By Jackson Maxwell This video takes you through a few keys, and shows you how you can use open strings in each.
Applying a Triplet Arpeggio Sequence to the Cycle of Fourths By Andy Aledort Learn how to apply a triplet arpeggio sequence to the cycle of fourths.
Restless Harmony: Meet the Anxious m7b5 Chord By Jimmy Brown Look at a few examples of ways in which world-renowned songwriters have harnessed this harmonic beast and put it to good use.
Be a String Crossing Badass By Ben Higgins Master string crossing with some simple yet effective licks.
Adding the Ninth to Arpeggio-Based Licks By Joel Hoekstra Learn what adding the ninth can do for your arpeggio-based lines.
Discovering Phrasing Alternatives Via Melodic Sequences By Richie Faulkner When applied properly, "go-to" shapes can serve as a tool box when developing solos or song riffs.
Creating Riffs from Arpeggios, and the Intro and Verses to “Priestess” By Mark Holcomb Walk the line between playing only single notes while also outlining “wide” chord voicings via the use of arpeggios.
Achieving Absolute Fretboard Mastery, Part 5 By Steve Stine Learn a really easy way to expand your pentatonic major and pentatonic minor into diatonic scales.
Break the Rules with Open Strings By Tyler Larson Open strings make your chords sound bigger and your licks sound more unique.
Extending Common Sweep Patterns By Sammy Boller Learn how to create several different arpeggios by slightly altering one of the most common sweep picking patterns.
