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Palm-muting is the secret to good funk guitar – here’s how you can use it to funkify chords, double-stops and single notes
By Jude Smith published
Learn the secret ingredient to funk guitar parts that groove and swagger

Tapping on a country album? Don't knock it ’til you’ve tried it, says Andy Wood
By Andy Wood published
How Eddie Van Halen-style tapping can add spice to a country guitar solo

Jared James Nichols explains why Mountain man Leslie West was the “king of heavy”
By Jared James Nichols published
In this video lesson, Nichols unpacks some of West's signature techniques and demonstrates how you, too, can scale the summit of tone and feel...

Michael Landau has made harmonic changes his calling card – and this lesson in his soloing style demonstrates how you can, too
By John Wheatcroft published
Landau’s articulate playing and reference-quality tone makes him one of guitar’s unsung GOATs

Take your melodic phrasing to new heights with this lesson in Mark Knopfler’s iconic soloing style
By Andy Jones published
Few players can pick out the notes like Knopfler, and this lesson goes deep into his fingerstyle approach, and how he foregrounds melody to tell a story with his leads

Learn to shred like Yngwie Malmsteen, as we celebrate 40 years of his game-changing debut Rising Force
By Chris Brooks published
It’s time to turn that Fender Strat into kindling as we go far beyond the sun and unleash the fury in a video and tab shred lesson that is not for the faint-hearted

Joe Bonamassa explains how to get into a slow blues jam – and, crucially, how you can get out of it
By Joe Bonamassa published
In this exclusive video lesson, the bluesman walks us through an essential skill for the blues guitar player, the slow blues… And he’s going to demonstrate how using an amp it took him 15 years to track down

5 ideas for how you can revoice guitar chords, and enhance your progressions
By Richard Barrett published
By using various voicings of the same chord, you can expand your fretboard knowledge and spice up your chord progressions

Expand your lick vocabulary and boost your improv skills with this Bruce Forman-inspired lesson
By John Wheatcroft published
Bruce Forman is a jazz guitar master, and these four mini-pieces in his style walk you through soloing strategies and chord choices, sharpening up your technique along the way
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