Artist Lessons

Here's a blues power-up for your fingerstyle technique, as the big man combines chicken pickin' with snappy pops on the strings

Jim Oblon takes an eight-bar rhythm and applies some fingerpicking ideas that could help get you out of a jam and put you right in the jam

He might have only just learned how to pronounce Gallagher's name properly, but JoBo is a player who idolized the man, and will pay tribute to him in three shows this summer in Cork, Ireland

In his inaugural Guitar World column, Cory Wong establishes the principles – and the mentality – of good rhythm playing, and how you can make yours fun

The pickless blues-rock powerhouse demonstrates some picking hand independence strategies that gets it working up a rhythm that works a treat for the solo musician

Jim Oblon cracks open the box to present us with a blues lesson to refresh your rhythm game

No Moore, no Bonamassa, says Joe, as he puts together four blazing solo ideas inspired by the late blues-rock force of nature

We’ve collected the best of Dimebag’s “Riffer Madness” columns for the ultimate masterclass in the late Pantera guitarist’s trailblazing style

Jim Oblon drops some blues science, demystifying the practice of alternating between parallel minor and major pentatonics

This Blues Power-up for your playing will help your solos speak to the audience