“I’m no great guitarist technically,” Leslie West once said, “but you wanna know why people remember me? If you take a hundred players and put them in a room, 99 of ’em are gonna sound the same. “The ...

Guitarists are always searching for new ways to express their musical ideas on the instrument. Be it a new chord voicing, scale, arpeggio, lick or riff, their attention is most often focused on the ...

Guitar skills: Fingerstyle is one of the most brilliantly useful techniques to master. You can use it in all manner of genres and styles, from acoustic folk and country to Jeff Beck and Mark ...

Allen Van Wert is a guitar teacher, fingerpicking metal virtuoso, and now an A.I. developer who is promising his new program, The Ultimate Picking Program, can identify weaknesses in performance and ...

Whether you want to play lead or rhythm, you need to get your picking technique together. We show you how... “Picking the strings, then. Up or down - that’s got to be it, surely?” Essentially, yes.

Big power chords might be the first thing that comes to mind when we think of punk-rock guitar, but punk has always allowed for plenty of variations in style. There’s always been room in punk for the ...