Guitar Nine Columns: Guitar Technique

Call-and-response practicing to enhance your phrasing and composing.

Stuck recycling the same licks and riffs? Dig yourself out of your guitar playing rut and rediscover the instrument you love.

Stop strumming those simple barre chords, and embellish your chordal work with licks and phrases that blur the distiction between rhythm and lead guitar playing.

Tips for playing arpeggiated chord progressions using string skipping.

More short lick ideas to kick-start your technique.

Break free of your limiting beliefs about pentatonic scales.

Emulating your heroes is fine, but consider how far should you take it.

Nowhere to go with ascending licks but up? Dan McAvinchey confronts the problem and gives you several ideas you can use today. Don't just take the easy way out and start descending either.

A number of short lick ideas designed to kick-start your technique.