Guest Columnists

Mark covers the essential picking styles new guitarists need to learn (or at least be familiar with).

Mike shows you several ways to spice up your riffs, lines and solos with some chromatic passing tones.

A technique that allows you to play both the melody and accompaniment parts of a blues tune at the same time.

Online streaming is a good way of adding a new revenue channel to your live shows.

Mike teaches you scale sequences (in the Hanon style, adapted from piano) that are great for your dexterity and precision.

There's a chance you have too many unfinished songs sitting on your computer, or maybe even on your bookshelf - let's finish them.

These exercises will help you to focus on string crossing with alternate picking, and also to help you develop left/right hand synchronization, speed and stamina.

Melodies are what stick in the listeners mind and convey passion and emotion: creating coherence in your solos.

Anyone (including yourself) can learn to develop creativity by using the proven methods and strategies for reaching this goal.

An original work (part one of two preludes) composed for solo electric guitar, in tabulature and standard notation.

Some creative uses of digital delay when writing or recording.

Tips for playing arpeggiated chord progressions using string skipping.