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- December 23
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- NAMM 2020: Electro-Harmonix debuts ludicrously affordable mini tuner pedal
- Warm those frosty winter nights with this hour-and-a-half-long video of guitars burning on an open fire
- Spoon's Britt Daniel: "I’m more of a rhythm player than anything else, and the Fender tone is perfect for that"
- Vince Gill: "I reached the point where I said, ‘I’m just going to play what’s necessary’"
- Review: Fender's American Acoustasonic Telecaster is a new benchmark in acoustic-electric design
- December 20
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- Neal Schon: 5 things we learned from his Ernie Ball String Theory episode
- Sabaton: "People have told us that they passed their history exams in school because of our songs"
- NAMM 2020: FoxGear offers a new take on ambient and modulation pedals with the Anubi Series
- NAMM 2020: Schecter debuts top-spec Silver Mountain and PT Pro electrics
- The ultimate guitar tuning guide: expand your mind with these advanced tuning techniques
- Northlane: "There’s definitely a place for alternate picking, but it’s better to try and down-pick everything you can"
- December 19
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- Watch Mary Spender review Orangewood's Oliver Guitar
- “It was like watching a Polaroid develop": An oral history of Stevie Ray Vaughan's earliest days on the road
- Chapman's limited-edition Ghost Fret Pro is a bloody good-looking guitar
- NAMM 2020: Faith Guitars unveils its first-ever baritone acoustic
- NAMM 2020: Relish’s affordable new Trinity model lets you swap out pickups in seconds
- The 20 best guitar albums of the decade
- Dear Guitar Hero: Pixies' Joey Santiago discusses his influences, making fun of guitar solos and why he gets "lost" on an SG
- December 18
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- Access a library of iconic amp tones with Hughes & Kettner's new Black Spirit 200 combo
- DiMarzio unmasks the Jim Root ClipLock Quick Release Guitar Strap
- Status Quo frontman Francis Rossi’s green Tele fetches more than $150,000 at auction
- This video of kids playing with pedals for the first time is the most adorable guitar moment of the year
- Joanna Connor: "Nobody talks about my rhythm playing, but to me, it’s the best aspect of my guitar playing"
- Enter to win this massive winter gear giveaway!
- NAMM 2020: Mooer expands its multi-effects line-up with the nicely priced GE250
- Watch Joe Bonamassa and Johnny Depp jam Alice Cooper classics with the shock-rocker's original line-up
- Ancient Roman death metal has arrived with this gladiatorial guitar playthrough
- Cobi: “I was playing blues in bars until one in the morning as a 13-year-old”
- December 17
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- Tony Iommi calls out YouTuber for getting his tone wrong
- Bad Wolves: "For us, it’s more important to be a powerful rhythm duo than a lead duo"
- Kenny Wayne Shepherd: those SRV clone accusations came from a jealous place
- Zac Brown Band's guitarists on being each other's favorite players and why having a singular leader keeps them together
- JackSavior’s new guitar cable promises to “save the world from jack failure”
- Crazy Tubes Circuits offers up tweed-like drive and vibrato tones with the new Killer V
- Save up to 80% off top-rated Bluetooth and wireless headphones in Sennheiser’s seasonal sale
- Cole Music's ParaDrive "will make your current overdrive seem like a dullard"
- John D’Addario III to become new CEO of The D’Addario Company
- December 16
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- Marshall's Studio Series review – packs classic, unmistakable tone into a downsized and manageable package
- NAMM 2020: ESP keeps the LTD party going with new SN, Xtone, M and 200 Series guitars
- Get a private blues lesson from ZZ Top's Billy Gibbons
- Not only is John Frusciante back, but his favorite wah pedal is, too
- Strandberg goes for gold - and silver - with striking 10th anniversary models
- Guthrie Govan: "I don’t see how it’s possible to have too much technique or knowledge"
- Marshall delivers the venom with the new white-snakeskin-wrapped 1959HW Bernie Marsden signature amp
- Laura Cox on being a leftie playing right-handed and why she'd take a high-end Epiphone over a cheap Gibson
- John Frusciante rejoins Red Hot Chili Peppers
- December 13
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- Play better than ever with these 5 essential guitar warm-up exercises
- NAMM 2020: Fryette delivers with new Deliverance Series II amps
- Jimmy Page’s guitar gear: everything you need to nail the Led Zeppelin legend's sound
- Submit your questions for Adam 'Nergal' Darski
- Keeley Electronics hits the sweet spot with new Johnny Hiland Super Drive Overdrive
- Solar Guitars unveils four sleek and highly affordable seven-strings
- Stone Sour's Josh Rand on how he changed from bass to guitar by accident and what's next for the band
- Joe Bonamassa: "It’s easy to play marginally good blues. It’s very difficult to play great blues"
- December 12
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- Origin Effects reissues hugely popular Cali76 studio-grade compressor
- This hilarious yet informative lesson is like no guitar playthrough you've ever seen before
- Joe Satriani AmpliTube is coming - and you get to pick the modeled gear
- Misha Mansoor, Jake Bowen, Plini and Jakub Zytecki go deep on gear, technique and the future of djent
- TC Electronic goes big on features with the new Flashback 2 Mini Delay and Hall of Fame 2 Mini Reverb
- Joyo packs distortion, overdrive, delay and more into the TC-1 Tone Chain
- The 20 best guitar riffs of the decade
- December 11
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- Go from warm acoustic tones to wall-shaking hard-rock growl in a heartbeat with Relish's new Walnut Mary guitar
- Paul Gilbert's Great Guitar Escape: Shrapnel and Beyond is a four-day workshop shred-fest
- Fender continues its Rarities hot streak with the Flame Maple Top Stratocaster HSS Thinline
- Gibson launches the Murphy Lab, dedicated to building historically accurate guitars
- The basics of rhythm notation for guitarists
- Watch Myles Kennedy perform Hallelujah on Jeff Buckley’s famous ’83 Telecaster
- Watch Andy Gillion and Paul Wardingham unleash a menagerie of other-worldly lead lines in this exclusive playthrough
- December 10
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- Heather Brown Electronicals’ Blessed Mother V2 is an overdrive pedal sent from the heavens
- Gov't Mule's Warren Haynes: "When I switch to my ’59 Les Paul, there’s something magical there that you just can’t replicate"
- Learn to supercharge your blues solos by seamlessly switching between major and minor pentatonic scales
- Christone 'Kingfish' Ingram: “I can’t be the kid wonder forever”
- December 9
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- Manuel Gardner Fernandes: "I wanted to do something people might not have heard before - and I hope I’ve proved I can play everything live"
- Kemper finally releases its computer-based editor - meet the Rig Manager 3.0
- Meet Dabin Lee, the DJ pushing boundaries with his genre-splicing guitar playing
- Rings of Saturn’s Lucas Mann responds to allegations he “mimed” guitar parts onstage
- The best-selling pedals of 2019 have been revealed
- Expand your creative arsenal by implementing the zero-th fret in your rhythms and leads
- Faith Guitars introduces the HiGloss Lyra, a nylon-string “designed with the non-classical player in mind”
- Ozzy Osbourne offers $25,000 reward for information about stolen Randy Rhoads guitar gear
- Ernie Ball promotes Luke Noffke to Director of Global Marketing and E-Commerce
- December 7
- December 6
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- Enter now: the Chordify Premium Suite Giveaway
- Catalinbread’s Dirty Little Secret overdrive pedal just got a little bit dirtier
- Man tapes dustpan to face, plays Smoke on the Water using nothing but sweep argpeggios
- The Underground Thieves' Nick Perri on ignoring directives from Eddie Van Halen, and why he's more satisfied with his tone than ever before
- Take your improvisation to the next level by listening to your own playing and reacting to it
- Mojotone cooks up vintage Gibson-style sounds with the new Premium Historic Limited ’59 P.A.F. Humbucker Set
- Kyser to release limited-edition 40th anniversary capo
- Avenged Sevenfold’s Synyster Gates offers up two new limited-edition autographed Schecter signature guitars
- December 5
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- Lyndsey Parker and Mindi Abair announced as co-hosts for the 2020 She Rocks Awards
- Framus gives the D-Series Idolmaker a Burgundy Blackburst makeover
- The best-selling guitar amps of 2019 revealed
- The 20 best guitar solos of the decade
- 10 things you didn't know about Stevie Ray Vaughan
- Epiphone's new Tommy Thayer Electric Blue Les Paul looks hotter than hell
- Tommy Emmanuel: "You don’t have to fill up every millisecond with sound and noises - I let the audience fill in the gaps"
- Scott Stapp guitarist Yiannis Papadopoulos: "When it’s time for the solo, I give my best to play things that justify the hours I put into the guitar"
- Boss debuts its most powerful guitar synth ever, the SY-1000
- Boss crams an entire amp into a set of headphones with the game-changing Waza-Air
- December 4
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- Lynyrd Skynyrd's Gary Rossington shares the story behind Free Bird
- Review: EarthQuaker Devices' Plumes will make even the industry’s best Screamer clones green with envy
- Watch Eric Clapton jam with space-rock vets Hawkwind onstage in the UK
- Rig tour: Caleb Miller reveals the gear behind King Calaway’s infectious country hits
- The Jack White and Tenacious D collaboration is finally here
- Jimmy Eat World's Jim Adkins: "I used to study classical and jazz... then I was suddenly sleeping on floors and playing punk-rock"
- The Allman Betts Band: "This is really about our chapter, and we’re still writing it"
- December 3
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- Pedal Crush will tell you everything you ever wanted to know about stompbox effects
- Mad Professor’s Super Black pedal puts classic Blackface tone in a box
- Faith Guitars brews up smooth tones and impressive looks with the new ‘Dark Roast’ Earth acoustic
- Samantha Fish on her newfound studio confidence and how a wonky fret inspired a whole solo
- Beck: I used a $60 particle board guitar to record most of my albums
- January 2020 Guitar World lesson videos
- Mithans’ Kyoto Explode guitar puts a whole new spin on the 'burst finish
- Manuel Gardner Fernandes responds to Instagram fakery accusations: “There was never a video that was sped up”
- Matt Sweeney on his secret formula for Josh Homme's Desert Sessions: "I can fingerpick, I know how to sound good... and I smell nice"
- December 2
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- These are the best Epiphone Les Paul Black Friday and Cyber Monday deals
- Take your amp modeler to the next level with $100 off a Line 6 Powercab
- D'Addario's XT strings are its most advanced yet
- SOLD OUT: This is the cheapest Ibanez AZ deal we’ve ever seen: just $899 for one of the best electric guitars you can buy
- Mark Tremonti's 10 greatest guitar moments
- These are the best Cyber Monday acoustic guitar deals so far
- Save $100 on Boss's very best effects pedals, the almighty 500 series - for a limited time only
- There are MASSIVE discounts on Boss's awesome-sounding Nextone guitar amps right now - but stock is running low
- Learn legato, tapping and string skipping with Micky Crystal
- December 1
