Lessons Get the Know-How of Jazz Rhythm Guitar and Venture Into Any Session With Confidence Advance your chordal and rhythmic accompaniment with this easy-to-follow guide on jazz guitar comping styles How to Bend Strings Like Andy Timmons Inspired by Jimi Hendrix, Jeff Beck and SRV, Andy Timmons’ expressive, soulful string-bending technique is among the best Want to Improve Your Alternate Picking? This Essential Lesson Will Have You Shredding in No Time Brush up on the basics of alternate picking with these easy-to-remember techniques you can work into your own music Latest Lessons Learn All the Notes on the Fretboard in This Easy-to-Follow Lesson By Guitar Player Staff last updated 21 March 23 Elevate your playing with this simple guide to fretboard memorization The Mixolydian Blues Scale Could Be the Most Useful Scale of All By Guitar Player Staff last updated 15 March 23 This scale reigns supreme as the chief source for carving those major/minor blues-based licks that sound so good over dominant 7th chords Start Learning The Guitar With 50% Off Fender Play’s Annual Subscription And A Two-Week Free Trial By Matt McCracken published 24 January 23 Take advantage of playing the guitar for less with this amazing new year’s deal from Fender Play How to Make the Most of Your Practice Time and Become a Better Guitarist, Part 1 By Jeff Jacobson last updated 15 September 22 In the first part of this two-part lesson, pro guitarists share advice on how to make the most of your time in the woodshed with some essential exercises to improve your playing now. Three Strap-Button Strategies to Change the Way You Play By Jimmy Leslie last updated 9 September 22 Buttonless like Cash? Treble-side? How you wear your guitar can make all the difference in how you play. How to Finish a Song After Inspiration Strikes By Jeff Jacobson published 13 January 22 An alternative approach for creating those elusive intro and bridge sections. Celebrating the 50th Anniversary of the Albums and Artists that Made 1971 Guitar’s Greatest Year By Vinnie DeMasi last updated 22 December 21 The spirit of ’71 is well and truly alive in this historical lesson. The Art of Classical Guitar: Expand Your Skills with This Fingerstyle Tremolo Picking Technique By Andrew Hull published 16 December 21 Learn the beautiful composition “a Nela” from the composer himself – classical guitarist Andrew Hull. Country Jazz Lesson: John Scofield’s Cover of "Mama Tried" Part 2 By Mike Swickis published 24 November 21 The second part of our look at Scofield’s sophisticated reinvention of a country classic. If You Think the Vast Majority of Rock Riffs Are In Minor Keys Then Think Again! By Tom Kolb published 3 November 21 This lesson on how to craft cool riffs in the style of legendary players using the Ionian and Lydian modes will have you covered. 1234Archives Get The Pick NewsletterAll the latest guitar news, interviews, lessons, reviews, deals and more, direct to your inbox!Contact me with news and offers from other Future brandsReceive email from us on behalf of our trusted partners or sponsors LATEST ARTICLES1“George used to have acoustics all over his house in various tunings – I’d pick them up and say, ‘What the hell is this?,’ then get out my cigarette pack and write down the tuning”: Peter Frampton on lessons learned from George Harrison and Steve Marriott2“I’ve got something special to do tonight”: Watch Steve Lukather cover Jimi Hendrix’s Little Wing, with Jeff Beck's white Strat 3John 5’s distinguished playing and stage presence have made him one of today’s most identifiable guitarists – channel his brilliance with a lesson in his chicken pickin’ prowess, rapid-fire banjo rolls, and behind-the-nut bending4“Unlock an array of colorful textures with two simultaneous delays”: Boss unveils the SDE-3 Dual Delay – a Roland SDE-3000-inspired stompbox that can deliver two delay layers simultaneously 5“The overall result is unlike anything I have ever heard from a guitar trio”: On Tripliciti, Andy McKee, Calum Graham, and Trevor Gordon Hall put their fluid fingerstyle chemistry on stunning display
Learn All the Notes on the Fretboard in This Easy-to-Follow Lesson By Guitar Player Staff last updated 21 March 23 Elevate your playing with this simple guide to fretboard memorization
The Mixolydian Blues Scale Could Be the Most Useful Scale of All By Guitar Player Staff last updated 15 March 23 This scale reigns supreme as the chief source for carving those major/minor blues-based licks that sound so good over dominant 7th chords
Start Learning The Guitar With 50% Off Fender Play’s Annual Subscription And A Two-Week Free Trial By Matt McCracken published 24 January 23 Take advantage of playing the guitar for less with this amazing new year’s deal from Fender Play
How to Make the Most of Your Practice Time and Become a Better Guitarist, Part 1 By Jeff Jacobson last updated 15 September 22 In the first part of this two-part lesson, pro guitarists share advice on how to make the most of your time in the woodshed with some essential exercises to improve your playing now.
Three Strap-Button Strategies to Change the Way You Play By Jimmy Leslie last updated 9 September 22 Buttonless like Cash? Treble-side? How you wear your guitar can make all the difference in how you play.
How to Finish a Song After Inspiration Strikes By Jeff Jacobson published 13 January 22 An alternative approach for creating those elusive intro and bridge sections.
Celebrating the 50th Anniversary of the Albums and Artists that Made 1971 Guitar’s Greatest Year By Vinnie DeMasi last updated 22 December 21 The spirit of ’71 is well and truly alive in this historical lesson.
The Art of Classical Guitar: Expand Your Skills with This Fingerstyle Tremolo Picking Technique By Andrew Hull published 16 December 21 Learn the beautiful composition “a Nela” from the composer himself – classical guitarist Andrew Hull.
Country Jazz Lesson: John Scofield’s Cover of "Mama Tried" Part 2 By Mike Swickis published 24 November 21 The second part of our look at Scofield’s sophisticated reinvention of a country classic.
If You Think the Vast Majority of Rock Riffs Are In Minor Keys Then Think Again! By Tom Kolb published 3 November 21 This lesson on how to craft cool riffs in the style of legendary players using the Ionian and Lydian modes will have you covered.
