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 tone solos 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
Sick Riffs: Andrew Kyne teaches you the infectious, ‘chicka’-loaded licks of Grayscale’s In My Arms By Michael Astley-Brown Plug in a compressor and brush up on your rhythm skills with these inventive pop lines - fully tabbed!
5 guitar tricks you can learn from slide master Sonny Landreth By Richard Barrett Nail the slide guru's style with 5 examples of his supreme slide technique
Sick Riffs: Myke Penney teaches you the low-string thunder of The Jailbirds' The Black River By Sam Roche Learn the title track of the hard-rock trio's 2019 EP
How adding intervalic leaps can breathe new life into your melodies By Trey Xavier Trey Xavier breaks down one of the essential building blocks of all music theory
Sharpen up your theory with this primer on eighth notes and rests By Jimmy Brown Get to grips with the most widely used rhythm in popular music
Sick Riffs: Pustulus Maximus wants you to learn GWAR's Auroch - and he wants you to learn it NOW By Sam Roche Fear not: you do not need the wall of Marshalls seen behind the monstrous guitarist to play this crushing track
Navigate the fretboard with ease using these simple scale pattern exercises By Dweezil Zappa Dweezil Zappa walks you through some quick tricks to enhance your playing
Sick Riffs: Sean "Starsky" Berry teaches you the fuzz-drenched powerhouse riffs of Sky Valley Mistress's Punk Song By Sam Roche You'll need a bit of gain, but more importantly, fuzz, fuzz and more fuzz
