6 guitar tricks you can learn from Eddie Van Halen By Total Guitar editors Plug in and rock out as Total Guitar gets hot for teaching Eddie Van Halen’s trademark riffs and techniques
The guitarist’s guide to vlogging By Chris Corfield Our expert guide to recording guitar videos has everything you need to get started with your new guitar vlog
How to use a looper pedal By Total Guitar editors Get to grips with timing and layering overdubs using our guide to looping
How to bend guitar strings By Total Guitar editors Get to grips with an essential lead guitar technique with this easy lesson
Learn how to play a metal version of the Wellerman sea shanty By Charlie Griffiths Sail the seven seas of rock with Total Guitar’s wailing version of the viral 19th century sea shanty
How to play power chords By Chris Bird Beginner guitar: learn rock, metal and punk riffs using just one chord shape
How to play like 8 Telecaster-toting country guitar greats By Total Guitar editors Set your Dyna Comp to stun as we go through the styles of Jason Isbell, James Burton, Brent Mason and more
How to play blues scale riffs By Total Guitar editors Beginner guitar: add one note to the minor pentatonic scale and unlock the formula for countless classic-rock riffs
How to incorporate the string bending mastery of Albert King in your playing By Greg Koch The Gristle King (aka Greg Koch) doffs his cap to another King in this essential blues lesson
How to change between guitar chords By Total Guitar editors Having learned your first chords, it's time to put them together with some easy techniques to make your transitions easier
How the guitar works By Total Guitar editors In this beginner guitar lesson, we explain what the different parts of the acoustic and electric guitar do
How to hold a guitar and a guitar pick By Total Guitar editors Beginners! Before you master the guitar, you've got to learn how to hold it. Fix your posture and your playing will follow
Learn 20 essential rock rhythm guitar styles By Total Guitar editors From grunge and metal power riffing to cowboy chord arpeggios, open G folk and math-rock fingerpicking
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
9 guitar tricks you can learn from the Foo Fighters By Total Guitar editors Layering guitars, powerchords, droning melodies – it's time to learn what makes Dave Grohl and co sound so massive
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!
