Tom Morello explains why "the most essential tool for any guitarist to utilize is live performance" By Tom Morello In this guest column, the Rage Against the Machine guitar maverick waxes lyrical on the benefits of taking your playing to the stage
Learn how to target chord tones when soloing over a chord progression By Andy Timmons Andy Timmons teaches you horizontal single-string ideas to make your lead playing melodically compelling
How omitting the 5th in chords can open doors to a much wider musical vocabulary By Richard Barrett A little chord theory can go a long way with new voicings freshening your approach to rhythm guitar
Best online guitar lessons 2021: our pick of the 9 best remote learning platforms for guitar players By Chris Corfield, Chris Schwarten Develop your guitar skills from the comfort of your home, with the help of these online lessons services
How to produce greater musical expression and variation while playing up and down one string By Andy Timmons Andy Timmons' debut column will teach you new ideas for incorporating melodies in your soloing
How to play guitar chords for beginners By Total Guitar editors In this beginner lesson, learn your first guitar chords and the building blocks of rhythm guitar
Greg Koch shows you how to solo over a blues shuffle in the style of Albert Collins By Greg Koch Learn to alternate between parallel major and minor pentatonics, and incorporate jazzy chord substitutions
How to dial in a guitar amp By Total Guitar editors Beginners, step this way: here's how to find a decent sound on your amplifier
How to tune a guitar By Total Guitar editors New to guitar? It's time to learn the most important lesson of all: the names of the strings and which way to turn the tuners
Total Guitar created a scientifically perfect guitar solo – here’s what it sounds like and how to play it By Total Guitar editors We've followed the science. It's time to shred. Are you ready for Franken-solo?
5 things all beginner guitarists need to know By Total Guitar editors Learning how to play guitar? Read this!
Glitch guitar: 7 creative ways to destroy and rebuild your riffs By Guitar World Staff Learn how to get the gnarly sounds popularized by the likes of Radiohead, Nine Inch Nails and math-rock
50 guitar chords you need to know By Total Guitar editors Boost your guitar vocabulary with fingerstyle-friendly shapes and everyday essentials, plus complex jazz voicings
Sick Riffs: Alex Dezen teaches you the catchy punk-rock guitar lines of Broken Baby's Royal Pigs By Sam Roche Learn the LA duo's raucous 2019 standalone single
Sick Riffs: Jesse Cash walks you through the immensely technical, multi-string tapping verse riff of ERRA's Snowblood By Sam Roche Try your hand at one of the most challenging Sick Riffs yet
Molly Tuttle teaches you how to play Good Enough By Molly Tuttle Often performed unaccompanied, Good Enough will teach you to embellish chords with single-note melodies
How to use alternating four- and five-note patterns to add intrigue to your solos By Vinnie Moore Vinnie Moore shares his approach to adding a taste of the unexpected when playing lead guitar
Create twists and turns in your solos with four-note 7th-chord arpeggios By Andy Aledort Expand your understanding by incorporating chromaticism and a “scalar” approach
How to play 5 classic Christmas songs on guitar - with tab and chords By Jimmy Brown In the spirit of the Axemas season, we’ve compiled a handful of select solo guitar arrangements of popular Christmas songs
Guitarless practice: how to learn without the instrument, and improve your musicality anytime, anywhere By George Howlett You don't always need a guitar to improve your six-string skills
