How understanding the power of leading tones will help you craft better melodies By Stéphane Wrembel An essential lead-writing primer with jazz guitarist Stéphane Wrembel
How to get Brian May's Red Special tones from a Strat or Les Paul By Simon Bradley Our insider’s guide to the ingenious workings of Brian’s home-built guitar and how to dial in classic Queen tones
How to play guitar like Jimi Hendrix By Total Guitar editors We dive in to the legendary guitarist’s trademark chords and lead-writing tricks
How to play the solo in Whitesnake's Trouble Is Your Middle Name By Joel Hoekstra Guitarist Joel Hoekstra teaches you the winding leads of this attitude-driven rocker
How to install humbucker pickups By Jack Ellis Our guide to soldering new pickups for your guitar all by yourself
How to play guitar like Pearl Jam By Jonny Scaramanga Discover the lead licks and arrangement secrets of Stone Gossard and Mike McCready
How to write guitar solos: 10 essential tips By Ron Zabrocki Catapult your lead lines into the stratosphere with these tried-and-tested compositional tricks
Beginner guitar: how to play minor chords By Total Guitar editors Improve your playing and get to grips with the theory behind minor chords
Joel Hoekstra teaches you how to play the intro and opening solo to Whitesnake's Shut Up and Kiss Me By Joel Hoekstra This classic-rock belter is taken from the group's latest album, Flesh & Blood
Beginner guitar: how to play chord tones By Total Guitar editors Ditch scale shapes and use chord tones for a creative approach to your first guitar solos
How to install a new 3-way pickup switch By Jack Ellis Our guide to soldering a new switch into your electric guitar - without ruining the circuit
5 guitar tricks you can learn from slide master Sonny Landreth By Richard Barrett Nail the slide guru's style with 5 examples of his supreme slide technique
How to play guitar like Joe Perry By Jonny Scaramanga, Richard Bienstock and Chris Bird Get back in the saddle with this primer on the Aerosmith icon's instinctive and effortlessly cool playing style
Beginner guitar: expand your chord knowledge with these simple suspended shapes By Total Guitar editors Go beyond basic majors and launch your playing to a new level
5 guitar tricks you can learn from Warren Haynes By Jon Bishop Dig out your Les Paul - it's time to learn the secrets behind the explosive style of blues guitar guru Warren Haynes
Beginner guitar: how to play scales By Total Guitar editors Get your head around this essential musical building block and learn two of the important scales: pentatonic and major
How to play guitar: 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 to install a kill switch on your guitar By Jack Ellis We take you through the wiring you need to get that Morello/Buckethead sound
How to play guitar like Green Day's Billie Joe Armstrong By Total Guitar editors Learn the secrets of the iconic punk-rock guitarist's deceptively dextrous playing techniques
Beginner guitar: kickstart your playing with these simple pedal tone riffs By Total Guitar editors What do a church organ and your guitar have in common? Let us explain...
