ACOUSTIC WEEK: Take your chord changes into a higher gear with our handy exercises designed to help speed up this essential technique. Tricky chord changes are frustrating for any guitarist. You just ...

Guitar skills: Funk guitarists favour smaller chord voicings using fewer strings – mainly the higher pitched ones. It’s also easier to move these small shapes around more quickly to create melodic ...

The A major pentatonic, A minor pentatonic and Mixolydian are great places to start and we'll show you how ...

Guitar World has released in-depth lessons on voicing extended chords, showing how to translate full theoretical stacks into playable guitar shapes. The tutorials explore 11th, maj11, min11, min/maj11 ...

These days, there's no shortage of ways to learn guitar. Of course, on the one hand, you've got the tried-and-true old-school methods, like private lessons, group classes, and even sheet music. And ...

Any rock fan who's ever picked up an electric guitar has probably dreamed of becoming the next Eddie Van Halen, Jimmy Page, Nancy Wilson or Slash. But if you're going to become a guitar hero, you've ...