How to Tune Your Guitar to Open A By Guitar World Staff In thisGuitar Basicslesson, Jimmy Brown shows you how to tune to open A.
Not Just Another "Flight of the Bumblebee" Lesson By Steve Booke Take a unique approach to learning "Flight of the Bumblebee."
Adding Dynamic Appeal to Your Power Chords with Intervals and Dyads By Bobby Kittleberger Add some flavor and variety to your power chord progressions.
Two Things You Must Practice to Master Pentatonics By Chris Scapelliti Two handy techniques that will help you master pentatonics all over the neck and move smoothly between positions.
Zoom to Shred: The Easy Way to Master Alternate Picking By Guitar World Staff This simple concept will allow you to practice and get better—fast.
Power Chords, Perfect Fifths and the Consonant Interval By Bobby Kittleberger If you can hear what’s going on in these patterns and replicate it in other musical situations, then you’ve built a crucial foundational tool for improvising.
How to Compose Your Own Prog-Rock Riffs By Tyler Larson Learn how to navigate the grid of prog and create your own stellar riffs within that genre.
Living Colour's Vernon Reid Shows How to Play "Cult of Personality" and More By Guitar World Staff In this classic GW lesson, learn Living Colour's "Cult of Personality" from Vernon Reid.
A Simple Scale That Works As a "Musical Dictionary" By Damian Fanelli Get a handy tip from guitar instructor extraordinaire Steve Stine.
A Tribute to Cliff Gallup’s Legendary Flash By Keith Wyatt The Gene Vincent and His Blue Caps guitarist defined the classic rockabilly guitar sound.
Major Pentatonic Scale Exercises with Alternate Picking Patterns By Bobby Kittleberger Learn and memorize three of the most common major pentatonic scale shapes.
Is This the Mother of All Finger Exercises? By Christopher Scapelliti See if you can perform this drill.
How to Play Jimi Hendrix-Style Rhythm Guitar By Joel Hoekstra Learn a few of the rhythm guitar techniques Jimi would most often employ to spice up his rhythm parts and make them melodic.
Guitar Chalk Sessions: A Clean Guide to Understanding Seventh Chords By Bobby Kittleberger Take a look at the theory behind seventh chords, and learn how to build them from the ground up.
Why "Noodling" on Your Guitar Might Be Underrated By Chris Breen Creativity is hard to regiment. It's one of those ephemeral moments that is tough to predict and even trickier to practice.
Use Melody to Avoid Cliche Scale Noodling By Tyler Larson Ripping through a scale pattern with absolutely no emotion or variation can become robotic. Learn how to turn off robot mode and find your voice.
Guitar Anatomy: Four Fundamental Movements Every Guitarist Should Know By Troy Grady Guitarists can take a big leap forward in their mechanical abilities by learning these simple movements.
Shredding with the Minor-Drop Progression By Jimmy Brown Using movable and transposable four-note arpeggios to create fun and exciting runs.
How to Utilize Unusual Alternate Tunings Like Jimmy Page By Andy Aledort Jimmy was often quoted as saying his true passion was to create a combination of “light and shade.”
Scale Sequences: 15 Hot Patterns That Will Fire Up Your Solos By Guitar World Staff These patterns will ignite your solos and licks with a new intensity.
