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- July 31
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- October 2020 Guitar World lesson videos
- From metal heavyweights to hot funk ’n’ roll: here are this week's essential guitar tracks
- Way Huge debuts the Green Rhino Overdrive MkV - a smaller, more versatile version of its flagship overdrive pedal
- Caparison promises the “pinnacle of extreme guitar design” with Mattias Eklundh's Apple Horn 8 signature 8-string
- Mastodon premiere trippy new song, Fallen Torches, ahead of Medium Rarities compilation
- John 5 teaches you insane sweep picking, sliding finger taps, pinch harmonics and behind-the-nut bends
- Chris Cornell’s 15-year-old daughter Toni joined by Pete Thorn for cover of Pearl Jam’s Black
- How understanding the power of leading tones will help you craft better melodies
- Sick Riffs: Nicklas Thomsen reveals the destructive riffwork behind Ghost Iris's Final Tale
- Black Veil Brides: "We really hated the lead tones on that first album - it was exciting to go back and re-record it all"
- Fender Compugilist review
- July 30
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- Archer Nation's Dylan Rose on why Canary's cables are some of the most reliable on the market
- Ernie Ball Music Man unveils July 2020 Ball Family Reserve guitars and basses in eye-catching finishes
- Mastodon’s Brent Hinds teams up with Marcus King to absolutely slay Black Sabbath’s Electric Funeral
- Watch this unearthed clip of Buddy Guy and Jimi Hendrix jamming in 1968
- Step up your tone game with this video lesson from the tone king himself, Eric Johnson
- Sick Riffs: Matt 'Real Bad' Rogers teaches you the powerchord chug-fest of Deez Nuts' You Gotta Feel Me
- Robben Ford takes you on a guided tour of his impressive pedalboard
- Best 8-string guitars: embrace the low-end with our djent-friendly electrics for all budgets
- The Go-Go's: "If you think we're sweet girls who wrote candy-flavored pop songs, our history is going to be a surprise"
- How to use wah and filter pedals on bass
- Tommy Emmanuel: "90% of these songs were recorded in one take!"
- Wingman FX Danger Zone review
- July 29
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- Get Angus Young's gargantuan Back in Black tone in a box with SoloDallas's Schaffer Replica pedals
- Kramer’s Original Collection of ‘80s-inspired guitars bring the heat on the latest episode of Cooking With Sound
- Adele, apparently, “is not really into wah”
- Ace Frehley previews new covers album with Deep Purple’s Space Truckin’
- Korn collaborate with Yelawolf for metal cover of Charlie Daniels' The Devil Went Down to Georgia
- Marcus King is auctioning 3 full guitar and bass rigs, featuring autographed Teles, Les Pauls and more, to benefit MusiCares
- Alex Lifeson and Geddy Lee name 22 songs that shaped Rush's sound
- Slipknot and Stone Sour frontman Corey Taylor announces debut solo album, CMFT, premieres first two singles
- Manson just made Matt Bellamy a bonkers LED-equipped violin bass
- Sick Riffs: Heinrich Arnold and Donny Burbage teach you the whammy-laden lead lines of Aether Realm's Slave to the Riff
- How to get Brian May's Red Special tones from a Strat or Les Paul
- Marleaux Contra review
- Ashley Reeve: "Your talent is all in your hands. You can make a $200 bass sound great if you know what you’re doing"
- Nick Reinhart on why Red Panda's Context 2 is his all-time favorite reverb pedal
- July 28
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- Watch blues picker Justin Johnson test-drive a gorgeous Cort Gold A6 acoustic electric guitar
- PRS unveils eye-catching Experience PRS 2020 Modern Eagle V
- Joe Bonamassa announces new Abbey Road-recorded solo album Royal Tea
- A rare Jimi Hendrix-played Japanese sunburst electric has hit the auction block
- Onslaught's Wayne Dorman & Dave Garnett deliver savage chromatic thrash in this exclusive playthrough
- Harley Benton debuts sub-$250 DC-Junior FAT in Ferris Blue
- U2’s Bono and Edge play Stairway to Heaven to honor their road crew
- Sick Riffs: Kohhei Matsuda and Yuki Tsujii teach you the avant-garde six-string psychedelia of Bo Ningen's Koroshitai Kimochi
- How to play guitar like Jimi Hendrix
- Brian May's 20 greatest guitar moments
- Fender Jim Root Jazzmaster V4 review
- July 27
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- Could these raised-ridge picks radically change your guitar tone?
- 10 of the best slide guitar songs
- Watch members of Tool, Primus, Mastodon and Coheed and Cambria absolutely crush Rush’s classic Anthem
- Slash, Jared James Nichols, members of Lamb of God, Alice in Chains and more pay tribute to AC/DC’s Back in Black
- Blackstar unveils Live Logic MIDI controller
- Poly Effects’ Beebo puts Eurorack modular synth power in a pedal
- Sitek teams up with YouTube guitarist Joss Allen for the Freya Overdrive/Booster pedal
- St. Vincent shares footage of herself “fumbling through” Stairway to Heaven
- Sick Riffs: Chris "The Doctor" Black plays through the carnival-themed riffs of Raven Black's Darkest Pit
- 17 star guitar players share their favorite Peter Green moments
- Women in lutherie: how female builders are rewriting the rulebook and pioneering new guitar design
- Scott Reeder: “I play left-handed but the bass is strung right-handed, so I can’t just walk into a store and try a bass. Not one!”
- July 25
- July 24
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- Be the first to check out Peavey's newly updated HP2 guitar
- How to play the solo in Whitesnake's Trouble Is Your Middle Name
- Fender Pour Over Envelope Filter review
- From blues perfection to monumental slabs of sludgy riff-rock: here are this week's essential guitar tracks
- Paul Reed Smith and Maryland Hall announce virtual Music School for Aspiring Musicians interactive experience
- Bandcamp’s revenue-waiving Fridays will continue for the remainder of 2020
- Devin Townsend teams with Wes Hauch to perform entire cancelled Bloodstock festival set via "ambitious" virtual concert
- Can't decide between a Tele and a Strat? Get both with the Joe Doe Punkaster
- Sick Riffs: Cody Quistad teaches you the earth-shattering main riff of Wage War's Who I Am
- The secrets behind David Gilmour's tone on Pink Floyd's Comfortably Numb
- July 23
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- PRS breaks new ground with its head-turning 2020 lineup of new acoustic and electric guitars
- Watch Iron Maiden's Adrian Smith take on David Gilmour's iconic Comfortably Numb solo
- Devin Townsend teams with Sepultura for a devastating run-through of the Brazilian thrashers’ Mask
- Fender and girl in red team up to raffle off a one-of-a-kind rainbow Player Series Telecaster
- You can now buy a Kurt Cobain-used Tortex pick - for $400
- Taylor Swift teams up with “heroes” the National and Bon Iver for surprise new album, Folklore
- How much difference does your guitar cable actually make?
- Consequence of Sound partners with Gibson for AC/DC Back in Black 40th anniversary livestream with Slash, Alice in Chains, Lamb of God and more
- The inside story of AC/DC's Back In Black, the biggest-selling rock album of all time
- The Beatles: guitar by guitar – a guide to the models that made music history
- Currents' Chris Wiseman serves up destructive 7-string riffs aplenty in this exclusive playthrough
- Sick Riffs: Steve Dadaian teaches you the jaw-dropping tapping lines and godly alternate picking of Red River
- Refused’s Kristofer Steen: "Staying in between genres is what we do - we try to find a sound that works between the lines"
- Atkin The Forty Three review
- July 22
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- Between the Buried and Me’s Dan Briggs discusses his sleek Spector NS-2000/5 signature bass
- Muddy Waters' former Chicago home to be turned into community center and blues museum
- Insane YouTuber names the 500 heaviest riffs ever written - and plays them all
- Tim Smith, Cardiacs frontman, dies aged 59
- Fender resurfaces one of its most outlandish guitar designs ever - meet the Maverick Dorado
- Sick Riffs: Jane Getter teaches you the gnarly fusion rock of Inversion Layer
- Test your blues chops with these dynamic licks from Tora Dahle Aagård
- Unearthed Rolling Stones and Jimmy Page collaboration Scarlet finally revealed - listen now
- Mark King: “Level 42 were so successful in the '80s. No-one was more surprised than me at how big the band became”
- Howard Gee: “I’m a big fan of the Echoplex EP-3, because that, to me, is the sound of '70s rock guitar”
- Darkglass Microtubes X Ultra review
- July 21
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- Get incredible, authentic valve tones at an amazing price with Vox's Cambridge50 amp
- Dawner Prince Electronics unveils Pink Floyd-inspired Pulse revolving speaker emulator
- Jeff Bridges on how his Breedlove signature acoustic will help save the planet - and why he started his first rock band at 60
- Shubb introduces luxurious gold and rose gold Capo Royale
- Sick Riffs: Daniel Miller of They Might Be Giants teaches you a pull-off technique that might just change your songwriting
- Jared Dines' Sterling by Music Man signature model is finally here
- The secrets behind Slash's guitar tone on Guns N' Roses' Welcome to the Jungle
- This is what Metallica’s One sounds like with every single part played on bass
- Elvis Presley’s iconic “Sun Sessions” Martin D-18 is up for auction for a cool $1.2m
- Fender debuts head-turning Sandblasted Strat and Tele
- Jeff Buckley is an unsung guitar hero whose genius defies categorization
- Valkyrie showcase their formidable melodic hard-rock chops in this exclusive playthrough
- Electro-Harmonix ups the loop pedal ante with the 1440 Stereo Looper
- Guild Aristocrat HH & P90 review
- How to install humbucker pickups
- David Vincent: "I started on upright bass when I was nine. It was a beast to get on and off the school bus"
- July 20
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- Get amazing tone-shaping capabilities and premium recording tools in an ultra-compact package with IK Multimedia's Axe I/O Solo guitar interface
- Reverend unveils new Ron Asheton three-pickup and Pete Anderson hollowbody signature models
- Seymour Duncan unleashes "brutal" Wes Hauch Jupiter 6-String humbucker
- Godin rebrands La Patrie classical guitars with the new Godin Nylon Series of acoustics
- Sick Riffs: Mike Taylor teaches you the finger-stretching intro to Rabid Flesh Eaters' Vengeance (Of Nightmares)
- Ibanez goes for gold with striking metallic-finished AEWC10 cutaway acoustics
- Wah pedal tricks and techniques: how to expand your creativity with this classic effect
- Fender unveils first-ever Custom Shop Meteora
- Chris Cornell's previously unheard cover of Guns N’ Roses’ Patience receives surprise release
- Classic gear: Fender Reverb
- ThorpyFX The Field Marshal review
- Johnny A: “I love vintage guitars and amps, but I love new ones, too. The bottom line is: does it sound good?”
- July 17
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- Blackstar unveils 6L6-loaded version of its HT Club 40 MkII guitar amp
- Ozzy Osbourne and Andrew Watt are already working on a follow-up to Ordinary Man
- From virtuosic R&B guitar jams to full-on punk revival: here are this week's essential guitar tracks
- SolidGoldFX takes flanger pedals to new extremes with the Oblivion Quad Flange
- Neon Egg’s Planetarium 2 is a pedal that looks like a synth - and it could push your post-rock sounds into the stratosphere
- Prince's one-of-a-kind gold-leaf Fender Custom Shop Strat is going up for auction
- Sick Riffs: Rishi Dhir teaches you the Phrygian drone lick of Elephant Stone's Land of Dead
- Enrich your solos by incorporating major pentatonic and hexatonic scales
- How to play guitar like Pearl Jam
- Fender The Trapper Dual Fuzz review
- July 16
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- Meet the Plextrum, a new hinged guitar pick promising the "optimal angle" for strumming
- Joe Bonamassa, Brent Mason and more to offer one-on-one, socially distanced instruction at the Woodshed Guitar Experience
- Sick Riffs: Caroline Jones teaches you the slide-tastic main lick of Tough Guys (Remix)
- Josh Homme says he's open to playing with legendary stoner rockers Kyuss again
- IK Multimedia releases feature-rich, ultra-compact Axe I/O Solo guitar interface
- Figures deploy a clutch of earth-shattering riffs in this exclusive playthrough premiere
- Nandi Bushell puts her Tom Morello-gifted Fender Strat to good use in hard-rocking Cochise cover
- Desktop amps go boutique with the launch of Bad Cat’s tube-driven Paw
- Dance Gavin Dance's Will Swan: "I don’t want to sound like Liam Neeson here, but I really do have a specific set of skills!"
- This handmade Strat-style guitar is raising money for music venues at risk of closure
- Rajani VOD-50 112 Combo review
- Robby Krieger: "I don’t see why people like Telecasters so much. To me, a Strat is a lot better and more playable than a Tele"
- July 15
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- John Mayer joins Tom Misch for a super-smooth NPR Tiny Desk jam
- Sick Riffs: Alex Wilson teaches you the odd-time swagger of sleepmakeswaves' pyramids
- Reverb raises selling fee from 3.5% to 5%
- Gibson is offering a $59k reward for the return of lost 1959-1960 shipping ledgers
- 5 tips to help you release more music, more often
- Joe Satriani reflects on his greatest guitar moments so far in this classic 1995 interview
- Gibson opposes Collings headstock trademark registration
- The secrets behind Steve Jones' tone on the Sex Pistols' Anarchy in the UK
- Trickfish Bullhead 1K Amp and TF-112 Cabinet review
- July 14
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- Watch Guitar World’s Paul Riario test-drive the versatile PRS SE Hollowbody II Piezo electric guitar
- Floyd Rose celebrates 40th anniversary with limited-edition double-locking tremolo system
- How to write guitar solos: 10 essential tips
- Jack Gardiner delivers a tasteful technique tour de force in this exclusive playthrough
- Sick Riffs: Conjurer's Dan Nightingale delivers double chug in this ruthless playthrough of Hollow
- David Lee Roth: “I don’t know that Eddie Van Halen is going to rally for the rigors of the road again”
- Dunlop announces auto-return version of its feature-packed Cry Baby Mini 535Q wah
- Fender releases 5 new short-scale offset Player Series models
- Alain Johannes: "I love the immediacy of acoustic instruments but I love the crazy worlds you can create with pedals - all I’m looking for is honesty and rawness"
- Steve Vai is planning an entire album of 8-string instrumental guitar
- Dunlop Cry Baby QZ1 Q Zone review
- Gibson responds to Satellite Amps over Epiphone Coronet dispute
- July 13
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- Get elegant, vintage looks and modern sonic appointments with Gibson's Original Collection acoustics
- Watch Stephanie Bradley shred over Van Halen licks using GHS Burnished Nickel Rockers strings
- Sick Riffs: Josh Baines teaches you the crushing, time signature-fluid riffs of Malevolence's Remain Unbeaten
- This viral skateboarding guitarist has been shredding around Atlanta on a Onewheel
- Harley Benton’s new 24-fret, sub-$500 headless electrics are an absolute steal
- Fender Play offers 3 months of free guitar, bass and ukulele lessons as it adds 6 Billie Eilish songs
- Satellite Amps alleges legal action by Gibson over Coronet guitar design
- Splendour In The Grass pivots its 20th anniversary blowout to 2021 with new headliners
- Bring a new dimension to your acoustic playing with this guide to percussive guitar techniques
- Gary Lucas: "The guitar is like an extension of my nervous system - I try to play what I feel and transmit it"
- Dophix Michelangelo Overdrive Plus review
- Kristiine Silinja: "I love exploration, adventures, and freedom. All that comes with a six-string bass"
- July 10
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- Get killer tone in a small, portable package with ZT Amplifiers' Lunchbox Reverb and Lunchbox Cab II
- From blockbuster hard-rock collabs to heroic dance-punk epics: here are this week's essential guitar tracks
- This 'Stomptrooper White'-finished Line 6 HX Stomp IS the multi-effects you’re looking for
- Sick Riffs: Mass Worship deliver a full playthrough and lesson of the unfathomably heavy Spiritual Destitution
- Accelerate your rhythmic understanding with this lesson on eighth-note syncopations
- Save 20% off Ukutune's 23” Concert Uke – includes free shipping
- Jerry Cantrell recalls playing the worst show of his life in front of Eddie Van Halen: “I couldn’t wait until the gig was over”
- Megadeth’s David Ellefson: “There are riffs on this new record that are way harder to play than anything on Rust in Peace”
- Best flatwound bass strings: how to choose the right flatwounds for you
- Hamstead Soundworks Subspace Intergalactic Driver review
- Joe Goldman: “I use this piece-of-crap $25 guitar pedal that sounds like a rusted chisel for all the Code Orange stuff”
- July 9
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- Why guitarists will find much to love in the Tascam Model 12
- A previously unheard Rolling Stones/Jimmy Page collaboration has been unearthed
- The secrets behind Jack White's guitar tone on the White Stripes' Seven Nation Army
- Spiritbox's Mike Stringer delivers a furious, pick scrape-laden playthrough of Holy Roller
- Sick Riffs: Charles Elliott teaches you the blistering death-metal riffage of Abysmal Dawn's Coerced Evolution - with tab!
- Wolfgang Van Halen showcases his mean bass chops on snippet of debut solo album
- Could Mooer’s SD50A be the perfect amp for acoustic duos?
- Channel some of shred’s most iconic guitar tones with AmpliTube Joe Satriani
- Brian May: "I will never claim to be a great guitarist in the sense of a virtuoso. I just try to play from my heart"
- The 1975's Adam Hann talks embracing heavy riffs, recording on the road and why he loves John Petrucci's signature model
- The story of Peter Green's Fleetwood Mac, as told by John Mayall, Mike Vernon and Green himself
- Harkin: "I’ve been playing guitar long enough to know that if something has P-90s, it sounds more like me"
- July 8
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- Learn more about Bog Street's ultra-comfortable standout guitar picks
- Mark Hoppus uses The Last of Us Part II’s virtual guitar to play Blink-182’s Dammit
- Sick Riffs: Liam Beeson teaches you the technical onslaught of Brand of Sacrifice's Casca
- Horizon Devices releases feature-rich, compact Flux Echo reverb and delay pedal
- Get more out of your pedalboard with Electro-Harmonix's $39 Cntl Knob static expression pedal
- Animals As Leaders announce special livestream event
- Dean unveils Seymour Duncan-equipped, carved-top Icon Select electric guitar
- The first artists for Bluesfest 2021 have been announced!
- Guitar Gabby: "Understanding where guitar music came from helps young black women like me, out here paving our own paths"
- Blackstar’s Debut combos might just be the best-looking beginner amps on the market
- Ida Nielsen: "Prince always pushed us to be better - now I want to make sure I’m the best musician I can be"
- Give your solos a sinister edge with the diminished scale
- PRS McCarty 2020 review
- July 7
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- Has Furch redefined the travel guitar with the Little Jane?
- Watch Zack de la Rocha play some seriously hardcore guitar in recently unearthed video
- Marcus King to team with Mastodon’s Brent Hinds and others for Four of a Kind, Live from Nashville charity series
- Watch the Japanese Consul General to the US play a ripping Hendrix-inspired version of The Star-Spangled Banner
- Steve Vai, Zakk Wylde and Joe Bonamassa to guest on new Derek Sherinian album, The Phoenix
- Country music legend Charlie Daniels dies aged 83
- Sick Riffs: Kevin Dye teaches you the inventive, effects-heavy solo of Gates’ Shiver
- Diezel's new VHX head knows when it's been profiled
- Beginner guitar: how to play minor chords
- Warbringer: "We’re not walking on eggshells, as far as the riffs we write. We don't go, 'It’s gotta be thrash!'"
- Balaguer Standard Series Espada review
- July 6
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- Harley Benton’s ST-Travel guitar offers full scale-length playability at an insanely low $74 price tag
- Allan Holdsworth's "secret" scale is one of the ultimate examples of 'outside' playing - here's how to use it
- Darkglass’s Element aims to conjure cab sim magic with the touch of a finger
- The 100 greatest guitarists of all time
- Hamstead Soundworks’ Ascent is a pure clean boost pedal built by techs for AC/DC, Guns N' Roses, Queen and more
- Neural DSP rounds up “the best clean amps in the industry” for Archetype: Cory Wong plugin
- Sick Riffs: Adam Bell and Ross McLennan teach you the fiendishly brutal verse riff of Viscera's Obsidian - with tab!
- Higher Power: "You can pull guitar ideas from anywhere - even grime music"
- Ashdown Grail and Saint review
- July 4
- July 3
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- Country duo Striking Matches burn it up in this smoking Fender Acoustasonic Strat jam
- Kiesel offers a new headless guitar hope with the highly customizable Leia single-cut electric
- From protest riff bombast to drop-tuned metal grind: here are this week's essential guitar tracks
- David Gilmour shares first new track in five years, Yes, I Have Ghosts
- Slash reveals he’s writing new music and recording demos for Guns N’ Roses
- Sick Riffs: Brandon Ashley teaches you the grunge-meets-hard-rock main riff of The Dark's Where's Your God
- Best acoustic guitar amps 2024: let your acoustic tone shine
- Online Music Exams’ first-of-its-kind platform enables accredited music learning during COVID-19 crisis
- Darryl Jones: "The Rolling Stones are pretty cool about letting me play what I want - they trust that I'll find the essence of the songs"
- Get to know a staple of gypsy jazz: the A harmonic minor scale
- Fender Reflecting Pool Delay/Reverb review
- July 2
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- Get IK Multimedia's $100 AmpliTube Metal for free for a limited time
- Hear Zakk Wylde's Zakk Sabbath cover band’s raging version of Black Sabbath
- Tom Morello teams with Imagine Dragons' Dan Reynolds, the Bloody Beetroots on “slamming” new song, Stand Up
- Judas Priest’s Richie Faulkner claims someone tried to copyright one of his original riffs
- Top British artists including the Rolling Stones, Eric Clapton, Iron Maiden and Judas Priest call on the UK government to help save the live music industry
- Everything you need to know about guitar amps
- Sick Riffs: Piotr Turek teaches you the palm-muted sludge onslaught of Telepathy's Pariah
- The history of instrumental rock
- Massive FX DallasDevilsPlay and G.O.A.F. review
- Jakub Zytecki: "I don’t really listen to guitar music - I’m not even sure if I like it!"
- Ernie Ball Music Man Sabre review
- July 1
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- Simple guitar chords that sound cool on an acoustic
- Luna’s Woodland Bamboo Dreadnought pairs natural tone with exotic-wood looks
- Marshall’s super-compact Emberton is the company’s smallest-ever portable speaker
- Herman Li asks Misha Mansoor: what is djent?
- Sick Riffs: Jay Tarantino teaches the sweeptastic lead lines of Etherius's The Rivers of Sand and Blood
- This ‘remix’ of Steve Miller Band’s The Joker adds the slide guitar wolf whistle after every line - and the results are hilarious
- Could NUX’s compact MG-300 modeler be the "best multi-FX on the market"?
- September 2020 Guitar World lesson videos
- The secrets behind Zakk Wylde's guitar tone on Ozzy Osbourne's No More Tears
- Cory Wong shows you how to sharpen up your rhythmic precision in this exclusive lesson
- Best boost pedals 2024: including the best clean boost pedals for guitar
- Green Day's Mike Dirnt: “My wife bought me a ’58 Olympic White Fender P-Bass - it eats my friends alive that I play it live”
- Martin SC-13E review
- Jackson unveils Crossroads-inspired San Dimas plus its first 27-fret and Evertune models as part of huge summer line-up
- Foxgear debuts hugely versatile XYZ Waves modulation and Jeenie amp/cab/mic sim pedals
- Fresh Electromatics, a P90 Junior Jet and Nick 13 signature model head up Gretsch's 15-strong summer line-up
- Charvel debuts spec’d-up, sandblasted Pro-Mod San Dimas Style 1 HH FR E Ash
- Charvel teams up with Evergrey’s Henrik Danhage for limited-edition Signature Pro-Mod So-Cal Style 1
- EVH gives the Wolfgang Special a limited-edition Sassafras makeover
- EVH’s new 5150III 15W LBX-S Head is its most versatile lunchbox amp yet
