Guitar skills: Jimi Hendrix makes great use of trills in the breakdown in Voodoo Child. The technique boils down to a series of fast hammer-ons and pull-offs using just two notes. Practise slowly at ...

Guitar skills: The original BB King ‘Zinger’ as it’s known simply slides down from a high root note of whatever key you’re in, nearly always somewhere high up on the first string. It’s a really ...

Every guitarist needs to know their chords – whether you're learning favourite songs or writing your own this is a great place to start with it all We're breaking 22 essential chords into three areas ...