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Surf guitar can teach you a lot about attitude and note choice – Arianna Powell shows you how your playing can benefit from catching the wave
Using the A minor pentatonic scale as a launch pad, Pickup Music's video lesson teaches you how to catch big waves of melody that bring that '60s surf style right up to date
Only bending strings with your second and third fingers? Strengthening your first and fourth fingers will help you express yourself like the greats
Blues heroes like Albert King and Stevie Ray Vaughan used their first and fourth fingers to bend – without support – to powerful effect. And with a bit of practice, you can learn their expressive solo techniques, too
6 scales from around the world that every guitar player should know – and how to use them
Tired of the same old blues scales and pentatonics? Try these on for size…
Improve your syncopation now with this lesson in funk guitar 101
Taking small chord shapes, single notes and 16th-note strums, we unpack the essentials for funk guitar and target those offbeats for rhythmic intrigue in your playing
“I never practiced”: Yngwie Malmsteen didn’t develop his superhuman guitar skills by practicing, apparently
Fancy becoming the next Yngwie Malmsteen? Well, you won't need to practice your A harmonic minor, according to the man himself
How the guitar riff has developed since the 1950s – and what you can learn from its evolution
From Chuck Berry to Dave Grohl via Johnny Marr, Jimmy Page and more, this rhythm guitar masterclass offers a decade-by-decade study in the evolution of the riff
Guthrie Trapp shares the picking hack that could help you play faster – and sound better
The Nashville guitar heavyweight first adopted the approach as a young guitarist after witnessing a mandolin player use it
The guitar greats describe a good solo as a “song within a song” – here’s how to make it happen
In his final In Deep column, the great Andy Aledort teaches us how lead guitar can maintain a compelling conversation over changing chords
