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- September 30
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- Carl Martin Purple Moon Vintage Fuzz n' Vibe pedal review
- This compositional trick has been used to great effect by Nirvana, Stone Temple Pilots, The Eagles, Queen and many more
- Review: Rode's RodeCaster Pro Podcast Production Studio is an essential standalone unit for professional podcast recording and live streaming
- Crank it up with Xotic's new Volume pedals
- Watch Janick Gers accidentally toss his guitar into the crowd during an Iron Maiden show in San Antonio
- Gibson has mysteriously pulled every video from its YouTube channel
- Check out 2019's impressive Acoustic Guitarist of the Year finalists
- September 27
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- The Black Keys' online MasterCourse will teach you how to "write music like the pros"
- Watch amazing performances from the 2019 Young Guitarist of the Year finalists
- DR Strings' new Veritas guitar strings harness new technology to deliver exceptional and unrestricted tone, tuning stability and intonation
- Red Witch reckons its Synthotron II is the “the most surreal, crazy analog pedal you’ve ever encountered”
- Oh! Darling - Z.Vex has unveiled an Abbey Road Fuzz Factory pedal
- Demo: Martin's GPC-13E offers classic Martin looks with a modern, vibrant sound
- Two guitars from Eric Clapton’s personal collection are up for auction
- JHS just recreated the legendary Lovetone Big Cheese - meet the Cheese Ball
- PRS debuts striking Sand-Blasted Swamp Ash finishes for SE models
- The secrets behind Joe Satriani's tone on Surfing With The Alien
- September 26
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- 22 guitarists, producers and gear makers reveal their tone secrets
- MOD Kits DIY's Saturator is a build-it-yourself drive pedal
- A guide to the recording equipment, songs and instruments featured on The Beatles' Abbey Road
- See all the incredible 2019 Guitarist of the Year finalists in action
- Boss updates its digital delay line with new DD-3T and DD-8 pedals
- Redbeard Effects launches with Red Mist MKIV overdrive
- September 25
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- Stream Sunday's live interview event with Alex Skolnick right here
- Watch Scott Ian's eight-year-old son play guitar with the Foo Fighters
- Led Zeppelin fan returns Jimmy Page's guitar case to him after 47 years
- Mysterious new Ernie Ball Music Man guitar, the Mariposa, spotted at UK Guitar Show
- Gibson's Sheryl Crow Supreme is its most highly customized Country Western ever
- The 25 greatest metal guitar tones of all time
- Led Zeppelin’s Stairway to Heaven plagiarism battle heads back to court
- The secrets behind Joe Walsh's tone on the James Gang's Funk #49
- September 24
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- Dunable teams up with Revocation's Dave Davidson for the Eidolon boost, reverb and delay pedal
- Get Fender’s excellent PM-TE Travel acoustic-electric guitar for almost half-price
- Geddy Lee to auction off 6 drool-worthy vintage guitars, including his '59 Les Paul
- Jason Richardson talks guitar, inspiration and gear in the latest episode of Ernie Ball’s Striking a Chord podcast
- Fender's Tone Master Deluxe and Twin Reverb digital amps have arrived
- Pluginz’ Fender Jack Rack allows you to, um, hang your keys like a rockstar
- 15 ways to improve your tone - without breaking the bank
- Guitar pedal order: how to arrange your pedalboard
- Martin honors Johnny Cash with all-black DX acoustic guitar
- Hughes & Kettner brings the Black Spirit 200 to the floor with feature-packed pedalboard amp
- September 23
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- Watch Roy Buchanan perform When a Guitar Plays the Blues
- Watch Eric Clapton and Peter Frampton's explosive While My Guitar Gently Weeps at the Crossroads Festival
- Andy James' STL Tones Revenant preamp pedal offers "perfect response"
- Walrus Audio’s Defcon4 returns as the EB-10 preamp/EQ/boost
- Guitarist of the Year 2019 winners have been revealed
- BB King’s 80th birthday Lucille guitar sells at auction for $280,000
- 13 of the best guitar tones of all time
- The secrets behind Eric Johnson's tone on Cliffs of Dover
- It’s official: Eric Gales is working with Joe Bonamassa on an “amazing” album and joint tour
- September 22
- September 20
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- Fluid Mechanics: A brief guide to Nuno Bettencourt's most musical and brilliantly flashy tapping licks
- Learn a quick-and-easy six note soloing technique
- The KMA Audio Machines Cirrus delay and reverb is a soundscaper's dream
- Justin Johnson: why I play a three-string shovel guitar
- Original Motörhead guitarist Larry Wallis dead at 70
- Breaking down the pentatonic scale into two-string shapes will redefine the way you play
- Squier's revived Starcaster models have arrived
- Mr Black’s Mini Tremolo serves up bias and harmonic tremolo in a tiny package
- See how Fender guitars are made with this fascinating look inside the Corona factory
- September 19
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- Jensen’s C12K-2 ceramic speaker serves up modern British voice in a vintage American package
- Solar Guitars introduces two new Type S models in eye-popping colors
- What guitar helped turn an REO Speedwagon Eighties pop hit into a blues-rock jam?
- Noodle away on this one-of-a-kind ramen guitar
- Chelsea Wolfe: "Writing while I’m still in the dream world but my eyes are open - that’s always a strange place…"
- Fender’s new Rarities Maple Top Telecaster is a Quilty pleasure
- How to play guitar like ZZ Top's Billy Gibbons
- Yamaha may have just perfected the desktop amp with the all-new THR-II series
- September 18
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- Dissect the brilliance of Jimi Hendrix's rhythm guitar playing
- Fender launches non-profit Fender Play Foundation with artist ambassadors from Green Day, Fall Out Boy and more
- Audibotics’ PlayX platform does, well, everything
- Add tremolo and dirt to your sound with Mattoverse’s new TremStortion
- Rig tour: Eirik Kråkenes reveals the gear behind Astrosaur’s post-metal onslaught
- Alex Skolnick takes you on a guided tour of the Met's astonishing Play It Loud guitar exhibition
- Fulltone readies the Ranger, a pimped-out Rangemaster treble booster
- Fender has started selling roasted maple Strat and Tele necks
- September 17
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- Fix your loose guitar jack with Bigrock Innovations' Guitar Jack Tightener
- Stone Deaf debuts limited-edition version of Josh Homme-favored PDF-1
- Radiohead’s Jonny Greenwood: “A 20-something carrying a cello case will always be more impressive than someone with a guitar”
- Andy Summers' Monochrome Strat has an actual photo finish
- Mark Tremonti explains why Eric Gales “could be the best guitar player on Earth”
- The Who reckon their newly announced record, Who, is "our best album since Quadrophenia"
- Watch Tom Morello and an all-star cast of guitarists invite you to his Guitar Revolution camp
- 3 in-demand Nashville session guitarists reveal what it takes to land country music's biggest gigs
- Fender debuts trio of new acoustic guitars, including 2 exotic wood models
- Mooer seeks to shake up the compact multi-effects market with the versatile, IR-equipped GE150
- September 16
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- Elliot Easton's guide to The Cars' discography
- These smooth BB King licks work for more than just blues
- BB King featured in today's Google doodle
- Ric Ocasek, frontman and guitarist of The Cars, dies at 75
- Tool's Adam Jones talks everything Fear Inoculum: the agonizing wait, the colossal tones and those signature pull-offs
- Review: Positive Grid BIAS FX 2 is so good you may never want to go back to playing a 'real world' amp or pedalboard again
- Is TC Electronic finally making a pedal version of the legendary 2290 delay?
- BluGuitar just dropped a metal-focused pedalboard amp, and it could be a game-changer
- Djent Mayer? Mark Holcomb busts out a PRS Silver Sky with Periphery
- Northlane: Men In Black
- September 13
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- Dave Mustaine lesson: Learn about exotic voicings, major and minor diads and "upside down" chords
- Veteran hitmaker Eddie Money dead at 70
- The major 3rd is the key to a killer blues solo - here's why
- World Guitar Day is back for 2019!
- Gibson is planning a major change to the entire Epiphone guitar line-up
- Is TC Electronic about to drop a do-everything multi-effects pedal?
- Pixies: Natural Magic
- September 12
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- Death By Audio and the Black Angels team up for “space trippin’ ” Phosphene Scream pedal
- Win $50,000 worth of equipment in Ernie Ball's Great Gear Giveaway
- Mark Knopfler’s 2019 guitar rig has been revealed
- Daniel Johnston, cult US singer-songwriter, dead at 58
- The Beatles were, in fact, planning another album after Abbey Road, according to newly unearthed audio
- Steel Panther’s Satchel: “Yngwie Malmsteen is one of the most emotional guitar players of all time”
- Prog legend Alan Parsons tells all: Dark Side Of The Moon, working with The Beatles and the "abandoned" Pink Floyd album
- September 11
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- Robert Johnson: Unlock the guitar mysteries of the Delta blues great
- This monster lick takes the blues scale to ferocious new places
- Artur Menezes wins Ernie Ball's PLAY Crossroads contest
- Three genuine '50s blackguard Fenders are now available at Chicago Music Exchange
- Victory and Richie Kotzen debut ultra-desirable, highly limited RK100 head
- Tyler Bryant: "If I don’t have a guitar on me, I don’t want to be in public... ever!"
- Fender revives the iconic Electric XII 12-string for new Alternate Reality model
- Gibson reveals astonishingly expensive Slash 1966 EDS-1275 Doubleneck
- September 10
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- Steve Vai on his favorite guitarist: "It's hard to realize how great he is - not many people understand"
- Learn Yngwie Malmsteen's legendarily fast rotational picking mechanic
- Supro harnesses vintage tube tone for affordable 1x8 Blues King combo
- Weezer’s new album is called Van Weezer, and it’s “all guitars and shredding”
- Nunez’s Tetra-Fet Drive brings the tube amp thunder
- Learn to explore the guitar's range with these wide-reaching jazz licks
- Experience the cinematic sound of India’s premier post-rockers aswekeepsearching in this exclusive playthrough
- Steve Vai and Derek Trucks’ secret weapon? Speaker isolators
- This intrepid guitarist wrote and recorded a new riff every day for a whole year
- September 9
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- Using fourth intervals as a building block for chords and solos
- Justin Chancellor talks Tool, songwriting and bass playing in premiere episode of Ernie Ball’s Striking a Chord podcast
- Rolling Stones guitarist Ronnie Wood pays tribute to Chuck Berry with Mad Lad live album
- Fender dives into the vaults to release five near-mint Strats through Reverb
- Ride the riff lightning with Dunlop's James Hetfield White Fang Custom Flow Pick
- Chase Bliss Audio's Blooper turns looping into a work of art
- "Calling a Dean guitar counterfeit is ludicrous," claims prominent guitar industry lawyer on Gibson lawsuits
- Tosin Abasi's comprehensive introduction to double picking
- Review: EVH's 5150III 50-Watt 6L6 Head is the perfect gigging and studio amp for discriminating players
- September 6
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- PRS’s roasted maple neck SE Custom 24 is now available in the US
- Z.Vex’s Box of Rock Clear is literally a transparent overdrive pedal
- Muscle Shoals guitarist Jimmy Johnson dead at 76
- The best (and worst) Van Halen albums, according to you
- Get humbucking tones out of a single-coil, and vice versa, with Stone Heavy Sound’s Decade pedal
- Give your guitar some vintage tonal mojo with Supro's new pickup range
- Add tension to your compositions by using augmented chords in major keys
- KMA Machines seeks to “transcend the well-known boundaries of overdrive” with the Logan
- Gotta tune ’em all! Korg unveils Pokémon clip-on tuners
- September 5
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- Source Audio’s Spectrum Intelligent Filter offers a world of tone-sculpting options
- Sitek’s Wuffy is a beast of a distortion box
- Hear Lari Basilio trade licks with Joe Satriani on incendiary new track Glimpse Of Light
- Watch Paul Riario demo the ESP LTD Arrow-1000
- Daniele Gottardo: What's on My Playlist
- Ibanez unveils eye-popping Antique Flamingo Pink and Surf Green-finished Artwood Vintage acoustics
- Fender strikes Amarillo Gold with the Britt Daniel Tele Thinline
- Vox gives the Mini Superbeetle a British Racing Green makeover
- September 4
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- Want to shake up your solos? Try this minor pentatonic super scale on for size
- Elite Acoustics’ D6-58 offers a six-channel digital mixer in a battery-powered amp
- Turns out Cara Delevingne can play guitar… behind her head
- Think emo guitarists can’t shred? Witness Tiny Moving Parts’ hook-laden tapping techniques in this insanely catchy guitar playthrough
- Death Angel: "We were trying to be progressive when we barely even knew three chords!"
- Prince’s guitar builder fights estate to keep hold of Cloud design
- Korn's Brian 'Head' Welch releases $130 signature guitar strap
- MXR launches an attack of the Clones with new looper pedal
- Andy James finds “the ultimate guitar tone” with his signature STL Tones Tonality plugin
- September 3
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- Show Me the Gear: Smashing Pumpkins’ Jeff Schroeder takes Guitar World on a tour of his rig
- Why did John Lennon “steal” the Get Back solo from George Harrison?
- Fibonacci’s Ambassador is a hand-carved AAA stunner
- Find out how Elixir Strings keep your tone at its best
- Freddie King lesson: go in deep with a blues guitar legend
- Jimmie Vaughan: "The goal is to play what you feel; once you figure that out, it all comes naturally"
- Electro-Harmonix takes on Beats with its own wireless Bluetooth earbuds
- Keeley combines Drive, Chorus and Rotary for versatile new DCR pedal
- September 2
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- Joe Bonamassa joins John 5 onstage to tear through Jimi Hendrix classics
- Tool’s Adam Jones: “Tom Morello sucked at guitar when I met him - and now no-one can touch him”
- The top 10 reasons to play guitar
- Joyo’s BSK-60 amp allows you to play as a full band anywhere, anytime
- How to buy a great acoustic guitar for beginners - a guide for first-time buyers
- Review: Strymon's Volante conjures a variety of echoes, from well-worn to modern and everything in between
- September 1
