Most jazz improvisation methods tell you which scale to play over which chord — but that chord-by-chord approach leaves out the most important question: why…

This is the fourth and final part of Luca Mantovanelli’s residency at GuitarVivo — a wide-ranging masterclass that brings together blues soloing, pentatonics, singing and…

Triads are only three notes — but on a six-string guitar they unlock an enormous range of melodic and improvisational possibilities. The challenge is visualising…

Playing outside — deliberately leaving the key for a beat or two before resolving back in — is one of the most powerful ways to…

Rock guitar technique — legato, economy picking, hybrid picking, and how to develop them seriously over time — is the focus of this second session…

Fretboard visualisation is one of those skills that separates players who always sound like they’re searching from players who sound completely at home anywhere on…

Economy picking is brilliant for covering the fretboard at speed — but the moment you want to change direction mid-run, most players hit a wall…

Bebop is often thought of as jazz territory, but the techniques that define it — enclosures, chromatic approach notes, rhythmic displacement, and bebop-scale runs —…

Superimposition is one of those topics that sounds daunting until you realise you’ve probably already done a version of it without knowing. At its core,…

All-hammer legato — playing entire lines without the pick touching the strings — is one of those techniques that sounds impossibly fluid when done well…