Jared James Nichols explains how to use open strings and Drop D tuning to bulk-up your blues fingerstyle

Park your electric guitar in Drop D. Throw your pick in the trash. It's time for some muscular fingerstyle with the purveyor ...
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Loved by Joni Mitchell and Keith Richards alike, essential to slide players, here’s how you can explore chords in open D

Open tunings are very popular with slide players as they offer the facility of playing triads with one finger (or slide), giving convenient groups of notes with which to build licks and patterns. In ...
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“I look at guitar playing as a dance between both hands…” John Butler shares his secrets in this stunning masterclass

“Here’s six techniques on how to play guitar in some kind of weird bastard way,” jokes John Butler, in this exclusive lesson for Guitar World. The American-born Australian singer-songwriter-guitarist ...

Brett Garsed teaches his angled-slide technique that lets you play lines like Walsh used in the James Gang and Eagles — but in standard tuning

Brett's slide journey started as a teenager but changed after he saw Joe Walsh play "Rocky Mountain Way" on TV. Like Joe, he ...