Total Guitar Lessons

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

Beginner guitar: Here's how to play one of the most common chords you'll find on your guitar-playing journey, as well as several easy variations

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

How to incorporate the chords and composing tricks that built rock’s greatest riffs in your own writing

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

Shape up your playing and focus on the skills you need to be the best live guitarist you can be

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

Our expert guide to recording guitar videos has everything you need to get started with your new guitar vlog

Get to grips with timing and layering overdubs using our guide to looping

Get to grips with an essential lead guitar technique with this easy lesson

Sail the seven seas of rock with Total Guitar’s wailing version of the viral 19th century sea shanty

Beginner guitar: learn rock, metal and punk riffs using just one chord shape

Set your Dyna Comp to stun as we go through the styles of Jason Isbell, James Burton, Brent Mason and more

Beginner guitar: add one note to the minor pentatonic scale and unlock the formula for countless classic-rock riffs

The Gristle King (aka Greg Koch) doffs his cap to another King in this essential blues lesson

Having learned your first chords, it's time to put them together with some easy techniques to make your transitions easier

A beginner's guide on how to strum chords in time

In this beginner guitar lesson, we explain what the different parts of the acoustic and electric guitar do