Five Essential Warm-Up Exercises from Joe Satriani, Frank Gambale and More By Guitar World Staff Five essential exercises to keep your digits in top shape.
Outside-the-Box Shred Lesson: A Tribute to the Late, Great Shawn Lane By Mike Orlando Learn some great Shawn Lane-style licks with this lesson.
Eerie Arpeggios: Using Movable Addb2 Shapes to Create Haunting Lead Lines By Jimmy Brown Learn how to create eerie, twisted-sounding melodies with this lesson.
Achieving Absolute Fretboard Mastery, Part 8 By Steve Stine Get a practical understanding of the CAGED system so you can start applying it in your own playing.
Enhancing a Basic Progression with Unusual Arpeggios By Joel Hoekstra Learn how to craft a lead that will fortify and enhance the primary rhythm part without overshadowing it.
Tosin Abasi Lesson: Seven-String Arpeggios By Tosin Abasi Tosin Abasi demonstrates some cool ways to perform a variety of arpeggios on the seven-string guitar.
Riffs in the Key of Sister Rosetta Tharpe By Damian Fanelli and Jonathan Graham Learn some of the licks Sister Rosetta used and how to apply them into a traditional gospel chord progression and beyond.
How to Incorporate Suspended Chords into Heavy Metal Rhythm Guitar Parts By Metal Mike Chlasciak Learn a few different examples of rhythm-guitar ideas that jump around harmonically and also feature the incorporation of suspended chords.
A Guide to Randy Rhoads' Acoustic Techniques and Riffs By Dale Turner Take a look at Randy Rhoads' classically influenced acoustic guitar work.
Steve Stevens: The Right Way to Play Billy Idol's "Rebel Yell" By Damian Fanelli Steve Stevens spill the beans about the lick's bluesy roots—and shows you how to play it correctly.
How to Play Stevie Ray Vaughan’s “Pride and Joy” Sliding Chords By Chris Scapelliti A guitar solo is the highlight of any Stevie Ray Vaughan song, and the solos he performed in his 1983 hit “Pride and Joy” are among his finest.
How to Apply Arpeggio Patterns to a Cycle-of-Fourths Progression By Andy Aledort Performing arpeggio patterns in this style poses interesting technical and fingering challenges that have been embraced by guitarists of every ilk.
Conquering the Scale with Michael Angelo Batio By Troy Grady Even though we tend to think of scale playing as the ultimate speed test, speed itself isn't really the problem. It's switching strings.
How to Use the "Spooky" Dimished Seven Chord By Jimmy Brown Look at a few examples of fairly well-known songs from the modern era that utilize the dim7 chord in interesting, effective ways.
Achieving Absolute Fretboard Mastery, Part 7 By Steve Stine Learn how to visualize the notes across your entire fretboard more easily and clearly with this lesson.
How to Perform Arpeggios with Barring By Jason Richardson Learn a new approach to playing arpeggios—specifically in regard to fret-hand technique—from our new columnist, Jason Richardson!
Four Easy Guitar Solos for Beginners By Christopher Scapelliti Four easy solos that every beginner should learn.
Five Tips for Surviving Your Next Jam Session By Christopher Scapelliti Five practical tips to help you survive a jam session and get called back for the next one.
How to Use Dominant Seven Arpeggios in Blues-Based Soloing By Joel Hoekstra Incorporating dominant seven arpeggios into your improvised lines is a simple way to expand note-choice possibilities.
A Useful Roadmap for the Pentatonic Scale By Guitar World Staff A five-step lesson that will help you get more, musically, out of the pentatonic scale.
