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August 30
- 5 fresh guitar songs you need to hear this week
- Andy Powers named partner at Taylor
- Watch Stephen Kellogg play a house concert with the Bose L1 Model II system and B2 bass
- Rob Scallon and Sweetwater just broke the world record for the largest guitar effect pedalboard
- JHS recreates 4 iconic pedals for highly limited 1966 series
- Joyo unveils its own take on the EBow, the JGE-01 infinite sustainer
- Paul Gilbert’s secret weapon? Yamaha’s tiny THR5 desktop amp
- Slipknot’s Jim Root responds to complaints about new album’s lack of guitar solos
- Jason Richardson: “I was a high-school kid watching John Petrucci play his Music Man... now I have my own signature model”
- Tool's Adam Jones: the 10 guitarists who shaped my sound
- The secrets behind Adam Jones' guitar tone on Tool's Jambi
August 29
- “Who doesn’t want their name on one of these beautiful things?”: Gary Clark Jr. discusses his new signature Cry Baby Wah
- Pink Floyd The Later Years is a massive 16-disc audio-visual journey through the band's last three decades
- Guitar playing could soon become part of your regular working day, thanks to Fender
- Are the Smashing Pumpkins secretly road-testing new Yamaha prototypes?
- Donna Grantis: "Prince taught me about articulation, attitude, power and tones"
August 28
- Steve Lukather: 5 things we learned from his Ernie Ball String Theory episode
- Strengthen your fourth finger with these exercises
- Lehle’s Little Dual II promises noise-free amp switching
- Steve Vai is releasing a deluxe version of Stillness in Motion
- Ed Sheeran announces plans to ditch the loop pedal
- Be the first in line to check out the limited edition Epiphone Vivian Campbell Holy Diver Les Paul Outfit
- Solar Guitars adopts more classic looks for new Type G single-cuts
- Gibson officially releases Limited-Edition Chris Cornell Tribute ES-335
- Big Wreck's Ian Thornley: "The greatest reward is chasing down the connection with the instrument and being able to slay with one note"
August 27
- Master some useful melodic tactics for a minor jazz-blues progression
- How to tap like Eddie Van Halen, Randy Rhoads and Reb Beach
- August 27, 1990: The day Stevie Ray Vaughan died
- Neal Casal, guitarist for Chris Robinson Brotherhood, Ryan Adams and others, dead at 50
- Rosewood set to return as CITES lifts guitar restrictions
- Paul Reed Smith has been stealthily developing national-security and medical tech alongside PRS Guitars
- The best ZZ Top songs: Satriani, Vai, Petrucci, Gilbert and more reveal their favorites
- You can now get a relic’d PRS Silver Sky John Mayer guitar
August 26
- The role of a lead guitarist in the songwriting process
- Eric Clapton: "I've never heard better rock guitar playing"
- What nobody teaches you about the blues scale
- Yngwie Malmsteen: "The pentatonic scale is extremely limiting. I thought, 'There’s gotta be more…'"
- Behold Joe Bonamassa’s see-through Lucite Fender Twin-Amp
- All that jazz: how to expand your compositional creativity and play Splendor Riot
- MidValley's Lo-Fi Giant conjures massive fuzz tones
August 23
- Looking for a challenge? Get a load of these insane pentatonic/diminished arpeggios
- Former Periphery man Adam 'Nolly' Getgood teams with Neural DSP for "the purest distillation of my perfect guitar tones"
- TC Electronic debuts the Hall Of Fame 2 X4, the “most potent” reverb pedal it’s ever made
- Fender refreshes entire Player Series with new Silver and Capri Orange finishes
- Periphery: "Even though we all have our own signature guitars, when we record we like to pass them around quite a bit"
- The 25 best acoustic rock songs
- Your guide to Martin's 3 new Woodstock anniversary models
August 22
- Joe Satriani delivers nothing but good (uni-)vibes on this upbeat new Bryan Beller track
- The 18-string Imrat Guitar aims to "combine the finest aspects of sitar and guitar"
- Sitar Metal are the world’s first, well, sitar metal act
- John 5: "I play so much guitar that it might not even be healthy - and I’m not joking"
- Tom Morello bares his sonic Teeth on 5 Seconds Of Summer’s surprisingly riffy new single
- IK Multimedia promises “tones that will rock you” with AmpliTube Brian May
- Review: Martin's Road Series GPC-13E blends the classic Martin sound with a modern approach
- 15 of the best songs played with a capo
August 21
- Bad Religion’s Brian Baker talks Kemper Profiler
- Watch Jared Dines and Stevie T deliver multiscale mayhem in Djent 2019 video
- Stray Cats legend Brian Setzer: "Nothing feels right after a Gretsch"
- Watch Eric Clapton put the Strat-necked Fender Blind Faith Telecaster through its paces
- 10 bassists you'd want in your dream band
- Dudley Taft unplugs from it all on upcoming LP, Simple Life
- Sunn O)))’s Life Pedal returns to drone once more
- Nita Strauss: how to tighten up your rhythm chops
- Make your blues solos awesome using dominant seven chords
- Martin’s opulent D-45 Woodstock 50th Anniversary headlines 5 new acoustic releases
- The Beatles' 10 best acoustic songs
- Kansas's Kerry Livgren on Dust In The Wind: "When I played it for the band, there was stunned silence"
August 20
- Stream today's live interview event with Stephen Bishop right here
- Young Guitarist of the Year star Abigail Zachko has released her debut album
- Iconic Eric Clapton, John Mayer and Carlos Santana guitars have been recreated for the 2019 Crossroads collection
- From Jared Dines to Sarah Longfield: how YouTube guitar heroes' DIY approach paid off, big time
- Gibson’s Eric Clapton 1964 Firebird I is the cream of the crop
- Bring the thunder and lightning with Fender’s new Phil Lynott Precision Bass
- How to play guitar on your lap using two-hand tapping
- Conjure big reverb waves with Catalinbread’s Topanga II
- Joe Bonamassa reveals “the best guitarist in blues rock that the world has right now”
- Dimebag Darrell: how to bust out of a rut
- Opeth’s Mikael Åkerfeldt: “Yngwie Malmsteen’s records have been pretty fuckin’ shit for a long time... but the guitar playing has always been great”
- Mike Campbell recalls Tom Petty's Damn the Torpedoes: "We were determined to make the best-sounding record ever made"
- How to play acoustic guitar like Yes's Steve Howe
August 19
- Plini shows you how to build a complex riff from a simple melody
- What do Stone Temple Pilots, Phish, Led Zeppelin and the Beatles have in common? This progression
- Mad Hatter’s Terminator In-Fluence Systems for active pickups will give your guitar a killer tone boost
- Using hybrid picking to create unusual, unique melodies
- IK Multimedia teases Brian May AmpliTube
- Balaguer evolves the offset baritone guitar with the Espada T-Bar
- This fingerstyle version of Iron Maiden’s Run to the Hills is a nylon-string beast of a cover
- Mix with your feet with Elite Acoustics’ StompMix 4
- Slipknot: "You can either evolve with us and get with it, or maybe you’re just not there yet, and maybe we’re not your band"
- Did Keanu Reeves just reveal the Bill & Ted reboot’s excellent new electric guitar?
- When guitar gods go acoustic: Page, Van Halen, Hendrix and more
- How to play acoustic guitar like The Beatles' George Harrison
- Morley showcases its 20/20 vision with 3 new wah pedals
August 16
- Guitto’s new acoustic pickup snaps right to your guitar’s soundhole
- Alsip's Classic Series puts a new twist on timeless designs
- NUX's Horseman combines both Gold and Silver Klons in one $69 mini pedal
- Mike Stern's dizzying chops are on full display on his new track with Jeff Lorber, Ha Ha Hotel
- Guitar rehab - picking-hand warmups
- Sample the sound of any guitar with Mooer’s Tone Capture mini pedal
- Origin Effects’ new RevivalDrive might just be the most versatile compact overdrive pedal ever made
- Fender pays tribute to Woodstock with Jimi Hendrix ‘Izabella’ Stratocaster
August 15
- Review: Fishman's Fluence Open Core Classic Humbucker Pickups deliver revolutionary, noise-free performance
- Watch George Lynch's pre-Dokken band, Xciter, rock Hollywood in 1979
- Watch Slash Featuring Myles Kennedy & the Conspirators tear through Shadow Life in London
- Inject some drama into your compositions with the sweetly painful augmented chord
- Daniel Donato: “If I want to be a guitar player in 2019, I need to have a sound you can recognize in less than a second”
- Classic guitar albums of 1979: ZZ Top's Degüello
- Sennheiser introduces entry-level XSW-D wireless pedalboard system
- How to sing and play guitar at the same time: 11 essential tips
- Joe Bonamassa has revealed the ‘best’ guitar in his incredible collection
- Electro-Harmonix crams 11 modulation effects into one pedal with the Mod 11 Modulator
August 14
- Meet these 12 gorgeous open-string chords
- Building solos on specific adjacent string groups
- Review: PRS Guitars' CE 24 Semi-Hollow balances the fierce and familiar
- Classic guitar albums of 1979: David Bowie's Lodger
- The smashed Fender P-Bass from the cover of the Clash’s London Calling to go on display
- Watch Tom Morello discuss his upcoming Guitar Revolution camp
- You're out! 6 songs with out-of-tune guitar or bass parts
- Watch Dillan Witherow and Jacob Evergreen demo Orangewood’s new Highland collection
- Fender’s new Rarities Quilt Maple Top Stratocaster is an exotic tonewood beauty
- Four actionable practice methods to help you improve every day
- Sculpt a variety of distorted tones with Dophix’s Michelangelo Overdrive Plus
- Watch 1,000 musicians blast through Rage Against the Machine’s Killing in the Name
- Backstage Tour: on the road with Karnivool
August 13
- Jon Spencer: "I’ve still got the virus!"
- Devise solo lines from long alternate- and economy-picked sequences
- Review: Eventide's Rose pedal offers a world of tones and textures
- The secrets behind Chris Cornell's tone on Soundgarden's Black Hole Sun
- Rubato’s Lassie is a carbon-fiber stunner delivered straight from South Africa
- Brian May Guitars branches out from the Red Special with the Arielle signature model
- Listen to Michael Schenker put his Dean V through its paces on new song Sleeping With the Light On
- Watch Nashville sideman Colin Poulton break down a modern funk groove
- Seafoam’s Harpoon mini pedal is a whale of an overdrive
- Presenting 2019's Guitarist of the Year finalists
- Yellowcake’s Psychotropia takes waveforms into new realms of weird
- You can now get an all-rosewood neck Fender Jazzmaster
August 12
- Eric Clapton and Mark Knopfler perform Cocaine in 1988
- Craft shocking sounds with Ananashead's new Bolt overdrive
- Plini shows you how to solo over prog chord progressions
- The End Machine's George Lynch: "I’ve learned to be open to new things"
- Classic guitar albums of 1979: The Cars' Candy-O
- Hear Mark Knopfler's isolated guitar from Sultans of Swing
- The secrets behind James Hetfield's guitar sound on Metallica's Sad But True
- Duane Allman's 'Layla' Les Paul just sold for $1.25 million
- Turn up the heat in your guitar solos in five easy steps
- Mr Black shifts expectations with Mini Octaves pedal
August 9
- Mike Dawes: What's on My Playlist
- Watch Les Paul Reveal Why He Never Liked the Gibson SG
- Constructing Guitar Solos Using Multiple Tracks and Crossfades
- Geek Out with the Amazing Ratmobile RAT2 Distortion Pedal
- Creative Legato Exercises with Odd Meters
- Classic Guitar Albums of 1979: Pink Floyd, 'The Wall'
- Watch the Black Keys Perform “Go” at a Tour Rehearsal
- Uncured Tear it Up in Their New “Conquistador” Playthrough
- Ernie Ball Music Man Announces the August Ball Family Reserve Collection
- Three Essential Jazz Guitar Chord Soloing Lines
August 8
- Stevie Ray Vaughan Wakes Up and Warms Up: Incredible 1986 Soundcheck
- Speed Demon: Delving Deeper Into Two-Hand Tapping
- Electro-Harmonix Introduces the Bass9 Bass Machine Pedal
- How Born of Osiris Guitarist Lee McKinney Made 'The Simulation' a Rocking Reality
- Tyler Morris Designs Announces the Turbo Booster and Jimmy Vivino Signature Turbo Booster Pedals
- Watch Christone “Kingfish” Ingram Play a Smoky “I Put a Spell on You” on a Fender Vintera Series Strat
- Watch Smashing Pumpkins Perform “Knights of Malta” on ‘Colbert’
- Watch Paul Riario Demo the Ernie Ball Music Man Jason Richardson 7 String Cutlass Guitar
- The Beatles’ ‘Abbey Road’ to Be Celebrated with Expanded 50th Anniversary Editions
- Line 6 Offers Free Update to its Helix Guitar Processing Software
- Review: Taylor Grand Pacific 717 and 517E
- Get Your Fingers in Gig-Ready Shape with This Fingerpicking Exercise
August 7
- Incorporate Arpeggios into Your Solos
- This Limited-Edition Godzilla is a Monster of a Guitar
- John 5 Announces Second U.S. Leg of ‘Invasion’ Tour
- The Darkness Detail New Album, ‘Easter Is Cancelled,’ Share First Single
- Watch Martin's Masterful Restoration of John Mayer's OM-28JM Guitar
- Watch Joe Bonamassa Shred on an EVH Striped Series Guitar
- RockBoard Unveils the ISO Power Block V10 Isolated Multi-Power Supply
- Listen to a New Tool Song, “Fear Inoculum”
August 6
- How "Free Exploration" Can Inspire New Compositional Creations
- ThorpyFX Introduces the Heavy Water Dual High Headroom Boost
- Five Steps to B.B. King-Style Lead Guitar Playing
- Spiral Electric FX Announces the White Spiral Boost
- La Grange Updates the ‘Wheel’ Guitar
- Les Paul’s One-of-a-Kind White Custom 50th Anniversary Model is Up for Sale
- Allan Holdsworth's 10 Most Useful Scales
- Beyond the Fretboard: Ways to Improvise Over a Breakdown
- October 2019 Guitar World lesson videos
August 5
- Killswitch Engage Share Official Video for “I Am Broken Too”
- Lamb of God's Mark Morton Talks Debut Solo Album, 'Anesthetic'
- Finding Inspiration on Three Adjacent Strings
- Tool Unveil ‘Fear Inoculum’ Cover Art
- Slipknot Premiere New Song, "Birth of the Cruel"
- Dead & Company's Bob Weir on the Merits of "Listening to Your Guitar"
- Listen to Jimmy Page Detail the Long and Winding History of His Iconic Fender Telecaster
- Mojo Hand FX Unveils the RVT Pedal
- Master This String-Skipping Lick
August 2
- Listen to a New Korn Song, "Cold"
- Eric Tessmer: Four Questions with Austin's Best-Kept Six-String Secret
- Steve Stevens and Geezer Butler Discuss Their New Band, Deadland Ritual
- The Ultimate Transition Chord, Part 3: Old-School, Jazzy Dim7 Resolutions
- Review: Orange Tremlord 30 Combo
- Gibson Details the Brian Ray ’62 SG Junior
- Why Every Band Should Own a PA
- Tool Release Entire Catalog for Streaming and Digital Download
- Melodic Minor Modes Made Easy
August 1
- G&L Debuts the CLF Research Espada Guitar
- Judas Priest, Queen, Cheap Trick and Neil Young: Four Killer Live Albums Turn 40
- Strandberg Introduces the Boden Metal Sarah Longfield Edition Guitar
- A video showing hundreds of Firebird X guitars being destroyed popped up online, and now Gibson has explained its origins
- Orangewood Guitars Unveils Highland Collection of Acoustics
- Boost Your Guitar Development With 25% Off Fender Play
- You’re at a Gig and Your Axe Has Gone Dead? It’s Time for Guitar Troubleshooting 101
- Tips for a Great Open-Mic Experience
- The Allman Betts Band Share Official “Shinin’ ” Video
- How to Play the "Other" Hendrix Chord
- September 2019 Guitar World Lesson Videos