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When the band formed, they could barely play their instruments – then their guitarist bought a delay pedal and changed the sound of electric guitar forever
The Edge bought a delay just to fill out the sound out in U2 – it ended up all but defining them. But there's a trick to how to use it in tandem with your playing and make it sound huge
Robert Fripp is a true prog virtuoso: this lesson delves into his mad/brilliant soloing style
We delve into the mad, brilliant lead phrasing and fearsome alternate picking of one of guitar's true masters
5 essential strumming patterns for beginner guitar players
This lesson unpacks one of the fundamental skills of playing guitar, and offers a launchpad for budding singer-songwriters. All you need is three chords and the truth
Palm-muting is the secret to good funk guitar – here’s how you can use it to funkify chords, double-stops and single notes
Learn the secret ingredient to funk guitar parts that groove and swagger
Tapping on a country album? Don't knock it ’til you’ve tried it, says Andy Wood
How Eddie Van Halen-style tapping can add spice to a country guitar solo
Jared James Nichols explains why Mountain man Leslie West was the “king of heavy”
In this video lesson, Nichols unpacks some of West's signature techniques and demonstrates how you, too, can scale the summit of tone and feel...
Michael Landau has made harmonic changes his calling card – and this lesson in his soloing style demonstrates how you can, too
Landau’s articulate playing and reference-quality tone makes him one of guitar’s unsung GOATs
Take your melodic phrasing to new heights with this lesson in Mark Knopfler’s iconic soloing style
Few players can pick out the notes like Knopfler, and this lesson goes deep into his fingerstyle approach, and how he foregrounds melody to tell a story with his leads
Learn to shred like Yngwie Malmsteen, as we celebrate 40 years of his game-changing debut Rising Force
It’s time to turn that Fender Strat into kindling as we go far beyond the sun and unleash the fury in a video and tab shred lesson that is not for the faint-hearted
Joe Bonamassa explains how to get into a slow blues jam – and, crucially, how you can get out of it
In this exclusive video lesson, the bluesman walks us through an essential skill for the blues guitar player, the slow blues… And he’s going to demonstrate how using an amp it took him 15 years to track down
