Sick Riffs: Kieran Shudall teaches you the upbeat pull-off-driven riff of Circa Waves' Jacqueline By Sam Roche published 26 June 20 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 published 26 June 20 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 published 25 June 20 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 published 25 June 20 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 published 24 June 20 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 published 24 June 20 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 published 23 June 20 The track is taken from the duo's upcoming album, A Portrait Of An Ugly Man
Chord tone soloing: how to learn this important lead skill By Total Guitar editors published 23 June 20 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 published 22 June 20 "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 published 19 June 20 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 published 18 June 20 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 published 18 June 20 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 published 17 June 20 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 published 17 June 20 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 published 16 June 20 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 published 16 June 20 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 published 15 June 20 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 published 15 June 20 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 published 15 June 20 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 published 12 June 20 Fear not: you do not need the wall of Marshalls seen behind the monstrous guitarist to play this crushing track