Lessons Techniques Elf Riffs - Progressive Rock Lessons: Diatonic Arpeggios Tuition By By Carl Roa published 7 January 2010 Get The Pick NewsletterAll the latest guitar news, interviews, lessons, reviews, deals and more, direct to your inbox!Contact me with news and offers from other Future brandsReceive email from us on behalf of our trusted partners or sponsors By Carl RoaSocial Links Navigation More about techniques How to play slap bass: an essential guide to slapping and popping Bass chords: shapes that work on bass guitar – and go beyond the power chord Latest “I use a spark plug to play slide. It's a trick Lowell George showed me. It gets incredible sustain – metal on metal”: In the face of sexist skepticism, Fanny's June Millington carved a unique six-string path, and inspired countless players in the process See more latest Most Popular “There are so many sounds to be discovered when you get away from using a pick”: Jared James Nichols shows you how to add “snap, crackle and pop” to your playing with banjo rolls and string snaps Don't let chord inversions bamboozle you. It's simply the case of shuffling the notes around How to play slap bass: an essential guide to slapping and popping Bass chords: shapes that work on bass guitar – and go beyond the power chord Joni Mitchell described it as ‘fly fishing’ and Jeff Beck was a master of the craft – learn how to use volume swells like guitar legends Eddie Van Halen, Allan Holdsworth and Larry Carlton How to find new approaches to blues soloing – using fingerstyle improv ideas and Roy Buchanan-inspired licks Want to play Master of Puppets the right way? Here's how to get faster at downpicking so you can chug like James Hetfield “The intensity of Rory’s guitar playing – the emotion, the sound and his incredible attack – was mindblowing for me”: Joe Bonamassa pays tribute to the late, great Irish blues-rock icon Rory Gallagher “For some players, their approach to rhythm guitar is, ‘Oh, someone else gets to do all of the fun stuff while I do this…’” Think playing rhythm guitar is boring? Cory Wong is here to change your mind “A few poorly intonated sustained bends in a solo can make the guitar's most emotive technique sound bad”: Learning how to bend strings correctly is one of the quickest ways to make your playing sound better MORE FROM GUITARWORLD...1In the face of sexist skepticism, Fanny's June Millington carved a unique six-string path, and inspired countless players2“Esoteric boutique vibe, superb ergonomics and a powerful, unique preamp”: Tobias Growler IV review3The heaviest acoustic guitar ever made? Two budding builders craft an acoustic entirely from concrete because they “thought the idea was really funny”4Sergeant Thunderhoof may have toned down the self-indulgence, but their 10-minute epics still get medieval on your eardrums5Yngwie Malmsteen names the guitar picks that don’t work for shred
![Joe Bonamassa [left] wears a deep blue suit and polka-dotted shirt and plays his green refin Strat; the late Irish blues legend Rory Gallagher [right] screams and inflicts some punishment on his heavily worn number one Stratocaster.](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/cw28h7UBcTVfTLs7p7eiLe-840-80.jpg.webp)
