Best online guitar lessons 2021: our pick of 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
Hone your hybrid picking with Greg Koch's lesson on how to play Luna Girl By Greg Koch It's a song written for a cat and it makes the purrfect workout for your rhythm chops
How to play the James Bond guitar chord – and 007 ways you can solo over it By Andy G Jones To celebrate the release of James Bond's 25th outing, No Time To Die, we show you how to play its iconic theme chord, and give you a license to thrill with your own accompanying leads
How to play legato guitar licks By Total Guitar editors Beginner guitar: these hammer-on and pull-off techniques appear in every genre of guitar and will rescue you if you run out of ideas mid-solo
How to play a C chord on guitar By Jonny Scaramanga Beginner guitar: Here's how to play one of the most common chords you'll find on your guitar-playing journey, as well as several easy variations
How to play barre chords By Total Guitar editors Beginner guitar: Play more notes with fewer fingers, and get to grips with essential rock ’n’ roll, funk and soul shapes
5 ways to write a great guitar riff By Total Guitar editors How to incorporate the chords and composing tricks that built rock’s greatest riffs in your own writing
10 ways to improve your live guitar playing By Total Guitar editors Shape up your playing and focus on the skills you need to be the best live guitarist you can be
How to lock into a groove as a guitarist By Nicholas Wedyke Achieve a masterful command over rhythm as a guitar player with these simple tips
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
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
