Most guitarists learning jazz hit the same wall: they’ve memorised the scales and arpeggios, but their playing doesn’t sound like jazz. The gap between knowing…

Technique can be taught. Inspiration is harder to pin down — but Andy Timmons has thought about it more carefully than almost anyone, and in…

Symmetrical scales are one of the most powerful tools in a modern guitarist’s vocabulary — they open up sounds that sit just outside the major-scale…

Allen Hinds is one of those players who sits in a unique spot — not purely blues, not strictly jazz, not fusion in the Holdsworth…

“Sunny” by Bobby Hebb is one of the most recorded songs in history — a deceptively simple melody built on a chord progression that has…

George Marios has a truly individual voice on the guitar — the kind that makes you stop and listen even when you can’t quite identify…

If you have ever felt like your chord playing and your soloing live in two completely separate worlds — one for rhythm, one for lead…

Brett Garsed is one of those rare players whose influence runs deeper than most people realise — not just in what he plays, but in…

Most guitarists learn modes as patterns — shapes to slide up and down the neck. Keven Eknes takes a completely different approach: he treats each…

Developing guitar speed has a reputation for being either a dark art or a brute-force grind. Neither is true. There is solid science behind it,…