Alternate picking: the key to accurate riffs and killer solos! When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. You know how to play a few chords, ...

30-day guitar challenge: Alternate picking is one of the simplest guitar techniques in that it consists of simply picking down, then up, then down, then up... One of the first picking monsters was ...

Born in New Jersey in 1954, Al Di Meola is a bona fide guitar legend. At the age of just 19, he was chosen by the great Chick Corea to fill the guitar chair in Return To Forever, with whom he recorded ...

Guitarists are always searching for new ways to express their musical ideas on the instrument. Be it a new chord voicing, scale, arpeggio, lick or riff, their attention is most often focused on the ...

Ani DiFranco may not have tried every guitar tuning, but listening to her unique brand of dynamic and percussive folk/punk/rock songs, it can certainly seem that way. What is clear, however, is that ...

Allen Van Wert is a guitar teacher, fingerpicking metal virtuoso, and now an A.I. developer who is promising his new program, The Ultimate Picking Program, can identify weaknesses in performance and ...