How to make your guitar stay in tune By James Uings, Chris Bird Look after your gear and it will look after you. Here are a few tips to ensure your guitar is in perfect pitch for longer
How to tune your guitar by ear By Jimmy Brown Train your ears and learn how to tune your guitar with two fail-safe methods - no tuner required
Upgrade your solos by learning CAGED scales By Chris Bird Cage fight! This match up of chords and scales will improve your leads
How to create chord progressions that will bring your lead lines to life By Total Guitar editors Follow our theory tips and learn how to pair your melodies with the right rhythmic accompaniment
Your first guitar lesson: everything you need to know to start playing now By James Uings This super-easy beginner guitar lesson takes you from tuning your instrument and strumming your first chords through to playing your very first guitar solos
How playing guitar in front of a mirror can improve your technique (yes, really!) By Peter Hodgson Believe it: a mirror can help you to hone your playing abilities
Beginner guitar: how to play powerchord riffs By Chris Bird Power up your rhythm and riffing with our lesson on these staple chord shapes
How to lower acoustic guitar strings By Jack Ellis A guide to dropping the action on your acoustic so the saddle can be set properly
How to tune your guitar to drop D tuning by ear By Jimmy Brown Don't have a tuner lying around? Fear not! Learn this all-powerful alternate tuning the easy way
Kickstart your songwriting with these ultra-useful chord progressions By Matt Scharfglass Though no amount of information about songwriting can turn someone into Paul McCartney, this lesson will help you come closer to fully realizing your abilities
How to set your guitar's locking nut height By Jack Ellis Fine-tune the action once and for all at the less obvious end of the neck
Beginner guitar: how to play minor pentatonic riffs By Chris Bird Learn how to use this essential scale, with two hard-rock riff tabs and two scale shapes
Learn to play the Tetris theme, prog-metal style - with full tab and audio By Charlie Griffiths Total Guitar brings you an arrangement of the 19th-century Russian folk tune, Korobeiniki, that became world-famous thanks to the 1980s Nintendo videogame
Beginner guitar: learn CAGED chords and unlock the fretboard By Total Guitar editors This simple chord system will transform your rhythm playing and get you playing across the neck
