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Sue Foley salutes Elizabeth Cotten and her favorite female guitar pioneers in this fingerpicking blues masterclass
Foley's latest lesson unpacks the Piedmont fingerpicking style perfected by the likes of Elizabeth Cotten – and there's some Memphis Minnie, too
Eddie Van Halen used it, Jimmy Page loved it, and all of your heavy metal heroes have tried it – drop D made drop-dead simple
Drop D tuning is one of the easiest alternate tunings to get to grips with. Here’s our step-by-step guide
Joe Bonamassa pays homage to Duane Eddy – and reminds us why the “Titan of Twang” was a great blues player, too
After saluting the late, great Duane Eddy at his tribute show in Nashville, Bonamassa serves up a video and tab lesson that shows us what we can learn from a rock ’n’ roll trailblazer
Rhythm guitar master Cory Wong shares his secrets to perfect pick-hand timing
Cory Wong's strumming boot camp will sharpen those rhythm instincts
Stop hiding behind barre chords – use smarter voicings that serve the song
Barre chords might be hurting your song more than helping – switching up your shapes could better serve your emotional intent
How Jimmy Page used open C tuning to open up a whole new world of acoustic blues
In this tab and video lesson, we show you how open C tuning is great for slide, it can present adventurous players with fresh chords and help them reach notes they couldn't in standard
Sue Foley shows you how to nail blues turnarounds
Turnarounds come around within the last four bars of a 12-bar blues progression and getting them right puts the cherry on top of the sundae
The key element that ties together three Led Zeppelin classics
Zeppelin’s power lay in their timing, the low-end giant explains, but there was more in the method to the band's madness
