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Beginner guitar: Take your rhythm guitar skills beyond the basics with this lesson on 16th-note rhythms

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

Play more notes with fewer fingers, and get to grips with essential rock ’n’ roll, funk and soul shapes

Beginner guitar: Play more notes with fewer fingers, and get to grips with essential rock ’n’ roll, funk, and soul shapes

Plug in and rock out as Total Guitar gets hot for teaching Eddie Van Halen’s trademark riffs and techniques

Looking forward to hitting the stage again after an enforced time off? Here are some exercises to get your chops back up

Spice up your leads and melodies with the technique popularized by the likes of Eddie Van Halen and Zakk Wylde

Learn some six-string rhythms in the style of blues heavyweights Howlin' Wolf and Hubert Sumlin

This hands-on and tabbed lesson offers a comprehensive primer in Eddie's signature lead style, as well as a brief history of two-hand tapping itself

Mastering precise bends on the B string can offer new ideas for pentatonic solos