Guitar skills: Combining taps and bends is a great way to create smooth lines, which can sound quite atypical for the guitar and are more akin to a pitch bend of a synth. To make your licks sound as ...

During more than four decades in the rock ‘n’ roll business Nils Lofgren has led his own band, Grin, played as a backing musician, crafted a highly successful solo career and, oh yeah, learned to tap ...

Whilst somewhat daunting to learn initially, there is a constant to help you visualise this riff; the fretting hand hammers out a powerchord shape for each new arpeggio shape (these are circled frets ...