"Technique, technique, technique...." I'm sure we've all heard an instructor or musical mentor utter something like this at least once! Technique is important w...
Learning to weave modal melodies into your soloing is one of the most interesting steps you can take to improve yourself as a guitarist. And having a diverse to...
Did you know Pop and Rock had their own "Renaissance?" That's right! "The Space Age," another fitting name for the '50s and '60s, was a time of reimagining musi...
In a special collaboration, the editors at Guitar World, home to the world's greatest suite of guitar magazines, have handpicked their favorite guitar lessons f...
When learning to play rock on the guitar, it's natural to long to play quick, flashy solos like the legends. One truly efficacious way to gain this skill is by ...
The modern rock guitar player has a lot of responsibilities to uphold when it comes to being great. The great rock guitarists have a grip on theory, influential...
Whether you are improvising a lead line, or crafting the perfect solo, you are always connecting different musical ideas together. This is how we express oursel...
When you start playing the guitar, or any instrument, you usually end up choosing a style or genre on which to focus. Blues, jazz, R&B, and rock might be some g...
Chords are a great source from which you can pull melodies and solos. After analyzing the notes in a chord, we can stack them on top of each other in a unique w...
In the first edition of ShapeShifter, Andy Wood showed us how to take the foundational harmonic and rhythmic knowhow that you already possess and apply it to fi...
Whether you’re writing out a solo or improvising one, you’re connecting a series of musical ideas to express yourself. In his Jam Craft edition of Solo Factory,...
Although these licks are modal, there's no need to fret - each of the licks presented here are versatile, usable rock licks that lend themselves to several play...