Guitar skills: let's get one thing straight – you don't need to know a lot of scales to be a good guitarist. In fact, if you've been playing for under a year you could quite safely get away with only ...

It's important that you don't play scales just to get faster, though. Speed is a happy by-product of trying to play more ...

Pretty much whatever the style, you can bet that you’ll hear the guitar playing a riff , solo or fill that uses a pentatonic scale at some point. Even if you don’t know it, you’re probably already ...

Blues guitar soloing isn’t just about scales and speed — it’s about telling a story with your instrument. From mastering the pentatonic scale to bending with emotion, the right techniques can turn ...

Playing the guitar is the best. The. Best. I have played guitar for 22 years and every single day I feel the same excitement about picking it up as the first day. Playing music is pretty much always ...