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- April 30
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- Tyler Bryant, YouTuber Ryan “Fluff” Bruce and Wishbone Ash’s Andy Powell join Orange Amps’ Instagram Hangs
- The world’s largest Zakk Wylde collection is up for sale on eBay - and it costs a wild $110k
- Sick Riffs: Nate Garrett teaches you the classic metal riffage of Spirit Adrift's Angel and Abyss
- Ernie Ball Music Man unveils the Sabre, its sharpest-looking electric yet
- In Virtue deliver heavy riffs par excellence in this dual-guitar playthrough of Where The Edges Meet
- Andrew Watt: "I said, 'I can't tell Slash what to play,' and Ozzy said, 'F**king tell him what you want him to play! You're Andrew Watt!'"
- Watch Lars Ulrich’s sons play “insane, crazy, garage-rock version” of The Beatles' Eleanor Rigby
- Save a massive 40% on this dazzling Hamer Sunburst double-cut electric guitar over at ProAudioStar
- Fender Smolder Acoustic Overdrive review
- How trailblazing Yardbird Paul Samwell-Smith helped bass playing take flight
- Classic gear: 1970s Fender Telecaster Custom
- Fender’s most eye-popping release of 2020 has arrived - meet the Evangelion Asuka Telecaster
- April 29
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- Get warm, rich delay sounds at an amazing price with this killer deal on the DOD Rubberneck Analog Delay
- Taylor's Urban Ash-bodied Builder's Edition 324ce heralds the launch of its Urban Wood initiative
- Sick Riffs: Nikki Misery teaches you the ultra-heavy riff of New Years Day's Epidemic - on a 7-string acoustic guitar
- Balaguer loses its head as it launches ultra-modern Vega and Anomaly designs
- Joan Jett, Lukas Nelson and James Bay are auctioning autographed Gibson guitars to benefit COVID-19 relief
- Bleed From Within's Craig 'Goonzi' Gowans trades shred for chug in this savage playthrough of Into Nothing
- A guitarist's guide to EQ: how to make your guitar tone bigger and better than ever before
- Cooper FX unveils Arcades, a multi-effects pedal that uses tiny cartridges to change sounds
- Save 18% on ALL guitars, amps and pedals at ProAudioStar
- 20 of the best modern blues riffs
- Brian Fallon: “I think it’s pretty creative that I’ve written 95 songs with similar chords - I think I’m doing all right!”
- Unleash your improvisational ability by utilizing basic chord shapes in your leads
- Guild Starfire II ST Dynasonic review
- Strymon launches Compadre dual voice compressor and boost pedal
- April 28
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- Nita Strauss unveils Rock Guitar Fundamentals online instructional program
- Joe Bonamassa launches Fueling Musicians initiative to provide artists with cash and gas cards to get them back on the road
- Sick Riffs: Ben Bruce teaches you the massive main riff of Asking Alexandria's They Don't Want What We Want (And They Don't Care)
- Devin Townsend raises more than $100,000 for COVID-19 relief through home studio live video concerts
- Steve Vai’s guitar gear: everything you need to nail the pre-eminent shred hero’s sound
- Corey Taylor is auctioning off 13 autographed guitars from his personal collection for COVID-19 relief
- Watch Night Demon's Armand John Anthony destroy Empires Fall in this exclusive playthrough
- Paul Gilbert on his greatest used guitar finds, humbuckers vs single coils and his first serious guitar
- Ashdown Studio 8 and Studio 15 Combo review
- Save $150 on Line 6’s all-encompassing M13 multi-effects pedal with this unmissable deal
- LOVEBITES: "It’s easier to develop lead guitar techniques if you have a good sense of rhythm"
- Bryan Adams: "I realized I had made it when I could pay my rent for more than a month without relying on anyone"
- April 27
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- Watch Ace Frehley play classic Kiss songs in the Guitar World studio
- Watch Jared Dines demo Martin's groundbreaking SC-13E offset acoustic-electric
- FU-Tone aims to expand your acoustic's tonal range with its new exotic wood guitar picks
- The Arcade Machine might just be the ultimate pedal for fans of old-school videogame soundtracks
- Sick Riffs: Chris Kreutzfeldt teaches you the brutal alternate-picking of CABAL's Tongues
- Eddie Van Halen allegedly pulled a gun on Fred Durst - just to get his guitar gear back
- Foreigner's Jeff Pilson takes you through his vast home studio's priceless bass and guitar collection
- Post Malone and Travis Barker play raging 15-song Nirvana set in quarantine - and raise $3m for COVID-19 relief
- Gamechanger Audio Plasma Pedal and Plasma Coil review
- Zoom launches its highly spec’d Helix and HeadRush rival - meet the touchscreen-equipped G11
- Billy Sheehan: "I never considered I had any natural talent at all. I just had a burning desire to play"
- Cave In's Stephen Brodsky on Final Transmission's bittersweet creative process and 'Secret C' tuning
- April 24
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- Levy’s goes fully organic with new hemp guitar straps
- From The 1975 to The Rolling Stones: here are this week's essential guitar tracks
- Dave Grohl, Royal Blood, Coldplay and more band together for a quarantine cover of Foo Fighters’ Times Like These
- Behold Leo Fender's handmade Breadboard Bass, which he used as a "quick and dirty way to test pickups"
- Watch Anthrax, Testament and Suicidal Tendencies members play Rush’s Freewill in epic quarantine jam
- Sick Riffs: Michael Abdow teaches you the soaring guitar solo of Cherry Blossom Descent
- Prog-metallers Etherius put quarantine time to good use with this technically formidable - and good-humored - full-band playthrough
- The 10 most iconic guitar amps of all time
- Greg Koch: "At the end of time, there will be cockroaches and Telecasters - and the Teles will be in tune"
- Mooer Tone Capture review
- Nili Brosh: "I approach solos like a paragraph of speech - musical punctuation allows the listener to pick out ideas more clearly"
- April 23
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- Solar Guitars returns with 7 sleek and striking new electrics
- Line 6 announces Helix/HX 2.90 firmware update with new amp, cabs, effects and more
- Joe Satriani names his worst album: "I have no idea why I thought people would want to hear that!"
- Ron “Bumblefoot” Thal: "I forgot how much I loved playing progressive music - I could play a little more outside"
- Two djent-mad guitarists played Led Zeppelin songs down a full octave - and it sounds impossibly heavy
- Diversify your playing by transferring melodic lines to different string groups
- Fit For An Autopsy's Patrick Sheridan obliterates No Man is Without Fear in this dizzying playthrough
- Sick Riffs: Gavin Rossdale and Chris Traynor teach you two massive Bush hooks
- Carol Kaye: "You want an instrument that gets all the sounds, not just rock and pop"
- The Chats' Josh 'Pricey' Price: “There are songs on our record that I don't even know how to play!“
- Fender Lead III review
- Angus Young's guitar gear: everything you need to nail the AC/DC star's high-voltage tones
- AWOLNATION: "We want the musical ability to compete with anyone - whether it's Metallica or Miley Cyrus"
- April 22
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- Beef up your guitar skills for free thanks to this killer deal from Martin and TrueFire
- Reverb.com will now offset all its carbon emissions from shipping
- Ernie Ball Music Man unveils sparkling Ball Family Reserve April line-up in red, white and green
- Alter Bridge: "All I want to do is learn new guitar lines on Instagram and get inspired by other players - it’s like I’m 21 years old again"
- Sick Riffs: Tom Keifer teaches you Hype's down-tuned, single-string swagger
- Are these stunning Epiphone Muse models the affordable, modern-spec Les Pauls and SGs we've been waiting for?
- Falling in Reverse guitarist Derek Jones dies aged 35
- How to install a Tremol-No system
- Get free rock guitar lessons with Orange Amplification’s online course and a free online music exam
- Save over $100 on a Gretsch G5245T Electromatic Jet over at Guitar Center
- Danelectro review round-up: '64XT, 60th Anniversary DC 59M NOS+ and 59X12 12-string
- Anna Calvi: "The worst thing about playing guitar is having to resist the urge to play fast all the time!"
- Jared Dines becomes Guitar World’s first YouTube cover star
- April 21
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- Share the love and donate a digital Guitar World or Bass Player subscription to an essential worker of your choice
- Ovation offers up two new Adamas carbon-fiber black beauties
- Sick Riffs: Nick Bockrath teaches you Cage The Elephant's House Of Glass in its entirety
- Recording King’s Tonewood Reserve acoustics promise 000-style looks and playability at a super-nice price
- Dwarfcraft Devices closes indefinitely
- Elder's Nick DiSalvo: “We anticipated spending more time jamming and recording actual songs. But we just got completely lost in all the gear!”
- NUX's Optima Air pedal promises to simulate any acoustic guitar tone
- Fender unleashes the brutally minimalist Jim Root Jazzmaster V4
- Can't Swim's Mike Sanchez delivers a double dose of high-energy punk-rock in these vivacious playthroughs
- Get the stellar Boss Katana Artist 1x12 for just $499 with this limited deal
- Kendrick Lamar guitarist Rob "Freaky Rob" Gueringer: "Remember that when you are working with these artists, you are an artist as well"
- Fender American Ultra Jazz Bass and Precision Bass review
- Rig tour: Sevendust on the gear behind their monster live sound
- Prince's 15 best guitar tracks
- April 20
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- Bogner updates its Burnley, Wessex and Harlow custom audio transformer drive pedals
- Kiko Loureiro shares Megadeth audition tape for Holy Wars and Trust - one day after learning to play the songs
- This daring guitarist played Eric Johnson’s Cliffs of Dover while blindfolded - and nailed it note-for-note
- The Black Dahlia Murder's Brandon Ellis delivers a super-precise playthrough of Removal of the Oaken Stake
- Sick Riffs: Dylan Rush teaches you the infectious indie octave work of Vistas' Tigerblood
- Ichika Nito and Polyphia’s Tim Henson trade insane licks and taps in new video jam
- Blackstar Silverline Deluxe Head review
- Fender will no longer use ash bodies for production-line guitars - we found out why, and what woods will be used instead
- 5 guitar tricks you can learn from Duane Allman
- Australian Guitar's Fresh Frets: Vol. 2
- April 17
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- Joe Bonamassa unveils Abbey Road-recorded new single A Conversation with Alice
- Volt Electrics updates its Tele-Firebird hybrid, The Reverse, with Sheptone Tribute pickups
- Marcus King: "I never called myself a blues artist - I’m an admirer of the craft"
- Transform your phone into a looper pedal with the new Beats and Loops drum machine and looper app
- The copyright battle over Dimebag Darrell’s iconic “Dean from Hell” appears to have come to an end
- From quarantine slow jams to unlikely all-star collaborations: here are this week's essential guitar tracks
- June 2020 Guitar World lesson videos
- Eddie Van Halen, Steve Vai, Yngwie and Satch signed this Jason Becker-owned Kiesel - and it just sold for $26,000
- Sick Riffs: Dave Pirner and Ryan Smith teach you the opening lead lick of Soul Asylum hit Somebody to Shove
- Tech 21 Steve Harris SH-1 SansAmp review
- The Les-o-caster combines a Strat and Les Paul into one jaw-dropping double-neck - here's how it was made
- Learn to wrangle the whammy bar with these slick tremolo tricks
- April 16
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- Jeff Beck and Johnny Depp share cover of John Lennon’s Isolation, promise more new music to come
- David Myhre: “There was no fooling Don Felder. It was like method acting - I had to really immerse myself”
- Fender debuts the Mustang GTX, its “most sophisticated connected modeling amps to date”
- Jim Davies: “You can’t just play whatever you want over dance music - the guitar has to fit in”
- How to borrow chords from a parallel minor key and lend your songs a bittersweet edge
- Fender ventures into far-out realms with the Parallel Universe Jazz Strat
- Sick Riffs: Eric Dover teaches you the bend-heavy licks of The Lickerish Quartet's Lighthouse Spaceship
- How to buy a guitar online: tips for seasoned and first-time buyers
- EVH 5150 Series Deluxe review
- Mike Watt: "There’s something about using the bass as a composition tool. Why only compose on a piano or a guitar?"
- April 15
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- Dusky Electronics' Beryllium 15-inch guitar cab aims to deliver plenty of power in a portable package
- Spice up your tone, and your pedalboard's looks, with this amazing deal on the Snake Oil Marvelous Engine distortion pedal
- Watch Devon Allman and Duane Betts tear it up on a pair of new Gibson Les Paul Traditional Pro V guitars
- Bog Street “challenges the conventional guitar pick” with the new Axe Series
- Jazz-fusion pioneer and guitar synth inventor Ryo Kawasaki dies aged 73
- Dean teases more affordable Kerry King V and a King/Dimebag/Dave Mustaine three-guitar package
- Martin Guitar 000-28 Modern Deluxe review
- Watch Half Hearted's Jason Grandell deliver some insanely catchy Tele woodshedding in this playthrough of Breathing Pattern
- Sick Riffs: Christian 'Dushi' Douscha teaches you the symphonic palm-muted chug of Visions of Atlantis's A Journey to Remember
- Code Orange's Reba Meyers: “I love evil sounds people wouldn’t necessarily know are played on guitar”
- Slash guitar chords: what are they, and how to use them
- Stanley Clarke: "The bass is a very important instrument in film. It can create tension - that's powerful"
- April 14
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- Unleash fire-breathing leads without breaking the bank with Cort's new sand-blasted KX300 Etched guitar
- Watch Ritchie Blackmore and Deep Purple perform in New York in 1973
- Mad Professor is using coronavirus downtime to release a limited-edition modded version of its Ruby Red Booster
- Live concerts and festivals may not come back until late-2021
- 10 of the best songs over 10 minutes long
- D’Addario is producing face shields made from its Evans G2 drumheads to help fight coronavirus
- Davie504 just bought every bass he can find and is giving them all away on YouTube
- ...And You Will Know Us By the Trail of Dead: "I look for beauty in music... It's probably why I don't listen to a lot of rock music"
- Sick Riffs: Rebecca Lovell teaches you the high-octane blues-rock of Larkin Poe's P-R-O-B-L-E-M
- Gary Clark Jr: "I got my education from Chuck Berry and Jimi Hendrix more than going to grade school"
- Electro-Harmonix Sovtek Deluxe Big Muff Pi and Nano Battalion Bass Preamp review
- April 13
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- How to use bass distortion pedals and nail super-heavy thunder tones
- Speed up your leads with this alternate-picking workout
- Ernie Ball Music Man's Joe Dart Signature bass is a streamlined one-knob wonder
- The Doors’ Robby Krieger offers a quarantine video lesson of his own with a Roadhouse Blues instructional from his home studio
- Jammy goes back to the future with the Jammy Evo, a modular, body-less digital travel guitar
- Daredevil’s control-less Hype boost pedal is “big and nasty in the best possible way”
- Sick Riffs: Jack Collins teaches you the insane sliding techniques of Dead Poet Society’s .swvrm.
- April 10
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- Kemper Profiler Stage review
- Nils Lofgren on his return to Neil Young and Crazy Horse: "We hit this groove and nobody wanted to stop"
- Johnny Marr has been demonstrating how to play Smiths classics on Instagram during the coronavirus pandemic
- Watch Jared Dines take his Sterling by Music Man signature StingRay for a thrilling test drive
- Put some hair on your tone with Cream T’s new Billy Gibbons WhiskerBucker pickup set
- From face-melting funk to meditative acoustic soundscapes: here are this week's essential guitar tracks
- This shred take on Bohemian Rhapsody is insanely over the top – even for a Queen song
- Watch Kenny Wayne Shepherd shred acoustic and electric blues on a Fender Acoustasonic Strat
- Sick Riffs: Mat Dauzat teaches you the rich, acoustic goodness behind Dauzat St. Marie's Watch Me Go
- April 9
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- Cort buffs up the Artisan single-cut bass with a non-multi-scale length and hot new finish
- Flake news: Danelectro debuts the Metalflake-finished ‘59M NOS+
- Brian May jams with Alex Skolnick, Bumblefoot and Stu Hamm as an all-star line-up takes on the Hammer to Fall Challenge
- Sick Riffs: Dan Sugarman teaches you the extreme 7-string licks behind Ice Nine Kills' Your Number's Up
- Buy a Taylor acoustic guitar and get another for just $99 at Musician’s Friend
- Kiko Loureiro posts his original Megadeth audition tape playing Hangar 18 - after learning the song the day before
- Deepen the impact and feel of your solos by string-bending across the fretboard
- GFI System Jonassus Drive review
- Peter Frampton: "I might not be playing live in a couple of years, but I’m going to be battling on and recording... I feel positive about the future"
- Fender will make other Tom Morello signature guitars, according to CEO Andy Mooney
- April 8
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- Go from high-octane shredding to rich, textural playing in an instant with Ernie Ball Music Man's Sabre guitar
- Furch Guitars is offering a virtual guided tour of its Czech Republic-based factory
- Paul Stanley plays Kiss Klassics from home during self-quarantine: "It's me and you hanging out"
- Sick Riffs: Tom Hunter teaches you the pentatonic licks behind The Jacks' Threw It All Away
- Ernie Ball is now manufacturing face masks to help fight coronavirus
- Sammy Hagar: “I always got blamed for the keyboard songs in Van Halen. It was not me - Eddie wanted to do that!”
- Charlie Griffiths tears through Haken's Prosthetic in this blistering playthrough - and invites you to record your own
- Alex Henry Foster: "This album was liberating for me - it was more about the songs than the performance"
- Here are the 6 fresh guitar artists you need to hear this month (April 2020)
- 9 sports stars who are surprisingly good guitarists
- Kinga Glyk: "The hardest thing to do onstage is to stop playing - we play because we are afraid of silence, but silence is part of the music"
- How to play fingerstyle guitar: learn fingerpicking styles
- Summer NAMM 2020 cancelled due to COVID-19 pandemic
- John Prine, songwriting icon, dies aged 73 from coronavirus complications
- April 7
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- Brian May has been video jamming with fans all over the world in the Hammer to Fall Challenge
- Stay in tune for a bargain with $15 off Korg's Pitchblack Mini pedal tuner
- Steve Vai on his time in Whitesnake: "There was real aggression and control in my playing. I just remember thinking it was never good enough back then!"
- Never lose your Allen key again with the HexHider, a magnetic tool that attaches to your guitar’s headstock
- The Darkness: "Ed Sheeran's fans probably didn’t anticipate seeing a rock band when they bought a ticket!"
- Fender Vintera '50s Precision Bass review
- Jason Newsted recalls getting mocked for playing bass with a pick - and explains why the haters are wrong
- Tony Iommi auctions autographed Epiphone SG to benefit Birmingham hospital charity during coronavirus pandemic
- Sick Riffs: Tom Peters teaches you a math-rock finger-twister - Alpha Male Tea Party’s Happy As Larry, Larry Is Dead
- What are guitar arpeggios? 8 things you need to know about this pivotal soloing technique
- Flea: "Playing bass gets you into this hypnotic state - you’re not thinking because you’re just a conduit for the rhythm"
- April 6
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- There are, in fact, 10 levels of bass playing, according to YouTuber Ichika Nito
- 5 times a live version of a song was better than the studio recording
- Thundercat names his favorite basslines and explains why slap bass is so controversial
- Jazz guitar legend Bucky Pizzarelli dies aged 94 after testing positive for coronavirus
- Misha Mansoor records major-key version of Stairway to Heaven, dubs it Escalator to Hell
- Sweep picking: how to get started with this awe-inspiring guitar technique
- Joe Satriani: "You have to be true to yourself. The internet is a great tool, but it also has the danger of homogenizing everybody"
- 6 expressive technique ideas that will change the way you play
- Sick Riffs: Logan Maggio of the Revelries teaches you a tasty Slash-inspired blues-rocker
- Overdrive your amp for less by snagging a Pigtronix Class A Boost mini pedal for just $59
- Mike Gallo: "My father told me guitar players are a dime a dozen, but it’s harder for a band to find a good bass player"
- Orangewood Hudson and Sage Live review
- April 3
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- Watch Ryan "Fluff" Bruce compare and contrast 3 PRS S2 McCarty 594 guitars
- Ryan 'Fluff' Bruce teams with ML Sound Lab for free high-gain amp sim package
- Guitar case company Gator is making music-themed masks and filters for those in need
- From polyrhythmic acoustic tapping to seven-minute math-rock odysseys: here are this week's essential guitar tracks
- Soul legend Bill Withers dies aged 81
- Sick Riffs: Jon Courtney teaches you the gained-up wrecking ball behind Pure Reason Revolution's Silent Genesis
- Martin launches Jam In Place Facebook series to help artists “spend some quality time with fans from the comfort and safety of their homes”
- Classic gear: Paul Cochrane Timmy
- Vivian Campbell: Me and my guitar
- How to troubleshoot guitar signal problems
- 100 ways to be a better guitar player
- Start playing for less with 25% off the Epiphone Les Paul SL Player Pack
- Alice in Chains: The Untold Story - Layne Staley's final gloomy days as the frontman of the Seattle grunge legends
- April 2
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- Ice ice baby: Danelectro’s new Ice Gray-finished ‘64XT is a stone-cold stunner
- Gibson and Sweetwater partner with Amped Guitar for free three-month membership to Augmented Reality learning platform
- Catalinbread’s Blood Donor is a distortion pedal that aids the Red Cross
- Sick Riffs: Rory Clewlow teaches you how to play Enter Shikari's { The Dreamer's Hotel }
- 11 alternate and open tunings every guitarist should know
- Fountains of Wayne’s Adam Schlesinger dies aged 52 from coronavirus
- Watch John 5 rip through Crank It's dizzying lead lines in this exclusive playthrough
- Act fast to save $250 on this impressively spec’d D’Angelico semi-hollow at Guitar Center
- How guitar relic'ing took over the world
- Ihsahn: “I am not a very technical guitar player - progressive is more a mentality”
- Andrew Levy: "If a track’s really going to travel, you’ve got to pull back the bassline and make sure the song is the star"
- April 1
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- Gibson TV launches Epiphone Guitar Giveaway of the Day online series
- Buff up your tone from the particle level with Tsakalis AudioWorks' Molecular Boost multi-effect pedal
- Adam Sandler jams with Conan O’Brien, rips the Stairway to Heaven solo on a video-chat episode of Conan
- From giant picks to 46-channel footswitches: these are the best guitar April Fools this year
- Jared Dines reveals the first songs he learned to play, his favorite riffs and what he thinks is the future of guitar
- Issues bassist Skyler Acord details his funk-informed metalcore approach and tricked-out signature Spector bass
- Never lose your pick again with Farewell Tour’s Pick Pocket shirts
- Sick Riffs: Learn the down-tuned stoner hammer-ons of High Tone Son of a Bitch's Silhouette
- Gene Simmons: "Many guitarists call their instruments 'axes', but nobody trademarked it. Except this guy!"
- Up to 11: a full harmonic-melodic analysis of Nigel Tufnel’s genre-bending Trademark Solo in Spinal Tap
- KMA Machines Logan Transcend Drive review
- Tony Iommi: "I’ve always had determination. I had to go against all the people who said, 'You’re never going to be able to play guitar'"
