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Mike Zito is a blues-rock maestro with a classic rock sensibility – and learning his skills will add a timeless quality to your leads
Co-founder of the Royal Southern Brotherhood, Mike Zito is a player's player, guaranteed to hit the bullseye with note choice and phrasing. This tab and video lesson takes you deep into his style
How to restring a classical guitar
Our easy step-by-step guide to changing the nylon strings on your classical guitar – with pictures
Pat Beers honed a one-handed, five-string guitar technique so he can cause more onstage chaos with The Schizophonics
With Hendrix, MC5, and Stooges influences, these antsy San Diego rockers put on a show you’re not likely to forget
Exercises for bass: 5 ways to improve your bass guitar technique
Whether you're a beginner or a pro, these 5 finger exercises will help all areas of your bass playing – from fret work and picking to ear training and theory
‘Hammer-ons from nowhere’ can blow your guitar playing wide open
This Greg Howe and Joe Satriani-favored technique will whip your hammer-ons, pull-offs, tapping, and muting into shape
How to sound like IV from Sleep Token: "He likes long necks and heavy gauge strings, with 084-010s his set of choice to provide a thick, rounded tone"
IV's rig secrets revealed, from guitars and effects, to tones and tuning – plus, our pick of budget alternatives to his go-to gear
Jazz and blues are closer than you might think – with just a few tweaks, you can turn simple blues licks into sophisticated jazz phrases
Cecil Alexander shows you how to take the blues scale and make it jazz
Al Di Meola, Steve Vai and Tosin Abasi are in awe of his technique – learn the signature style of Matteo Mancuso, the maestro of fingerstyle fusion shred
Mancuso's debut LP The Journey is a tour de force of technique and imagination. We take a look at how the young Italian virtuoso's approach can make you a better player now
Technique, theory, taste and feel are the key ingredients in any guitar solo – work on these elements and you will play better, more expressive leads
There's no messing around with this tab and video lesson: it’s time to workshop some lead guitar ideas and get your solos spotlight-worthy
“You don’t have to shred, play fusion or reinvent guitar technique”: Steve Vai’s co-guitarist watched every night of the G3 reunion tour – this is what he thinks makes a virtuoso
Dante Frisiello watched Steve Vai, Eric Johnson and Joe Satriani night in, night out, during the recent G3 tour – and it's helped him develop his own definition of what it means to be a virtuoso
