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

Inversions are essential for jazz players, virtuoso cats such as Martin Tyler, but they are super-useful for any player looking for a fresh chord voicing. Let's take a look and demystify them with 5 ways you can play a Bmaj7

Also known as thumpin’ and pluckin’, slap bass is one of the mainstays of funk bass

Learning how to play chords on the bass is an absolute must if you want to develop your musicianship

Volume down, pick, volume up... violining offers loads of potential as this lesson proves

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

Downpicking is a fundamental and powerful pick stroke, and one of the mainstay techniques in metal and punk

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

String bending is a core technique for lead playing. Here's how to take it from beginner to pro