Lesson Videos

One of the finest shredders playing today teaches you an array of dazzling techniques

More at home with six strings? This guide will help you demystify the low-end

Train your ears with our guide to tuning a guitar for beginners - no tuner required

Learn an interesting new lick - and give your fingers a workout - with this lesson

An in-depth examination of Gary Moore’s piercing, deeply emotional guitar work

Don't have a tuner lying around? Fear not! Learn this all-powerful alternate tuning the easy way

Impart a touch of sadness or melancholy to an otherwise happy and predictable-sounding progression

In the spirit of the Axemas season, we’ve compiled a handful of select solo guitar arrangements of popular Christmas songs

Billy Gibbons teaches you the blues tunes that inspired him to play guitar

Gypsy jazz guitar master Stéphane Wrembel offers some terrific exercises that will help you develop fret-hand strength

All of the greatest blues and rock guitarists - such as T-Bone Walker, B.B. King, Albert King, Eric Clapton and Jimi Hendrix - routinely incorporated this technique into their solos

Dweezil Zappa offers some phenomenal spontaneous soloing strategies

Steve Howe shows you how to play the key riffs to several Yes classics

How to inject a sense of drama into your songwriting

If you get your fingers used to the wide intervals in this lick, the creative possibilities are endless

Dweezil Zappa shares ideas for fresh melodic shapes

Take a look at Leslie West's heavy, dense guitar work in this lesson

When soloing over dom7 chords, the inclusion or substitution of the major third in a minor pentatonic line always sounds good

These patterns are easy to link up with your pentatonic scales, and can be very useful for adding some flash into your riffs and solos