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- November 30
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- Intervals' Aaron Marshall takes a deep dive into his guitar-playing philosophy, and talks tones, tempos, modes and his favorite guitar instrumentals
- Watch as Nathan East tears his achilles tendon onstage with Toto while trying to show off for Verdine White
- Fallujah’s Scott Carstairs: “Radiant Ascension is the hardest solo I’ve ever had to perform... that’s the only way to improve: really intense, difficult s**t”
- Candlemass’s Leif Edling and Lars Johansson on the triumphant return of a metal institution: “You can’t kill us! We’re the cockroaches of epic doom metal!”
- Jefferson Airplane's Jack Casady on why he plays hollowbody basses, road-testing his Epiphone signature models, and the most pivotal point of his playing career
- November 29
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- NOFX’s Fat Mike on Australia, ‘Double Album’ and the power of pegging
- George Harrison's 15 greatest guitar moments after The Beatles
- Adalita: “I thought the songs were just too good to not release”
- How a love of jazz chords and alternate tunings inspired Soccer Mommy's most boundary-pushing album yet
- Gene Simmons: "Everything Vinnie Vincent did sounded like Yngwie Malmsteen on crack"
- Dead Cross: “With any of our other bands, a solo would almost be unwarranted – it would be silly. But for a thrash-related project, it screams for it”
- Nik Nocturnal: “A lot of what makes a song heavy isn’t the riff – the mix, I’d argue, makes something heavier than the riff itself”
- The bass remains the same: How they made the Manson John Paul Jones E-Bass identical to the Led Zeppelin legend’s actual bass
- Stuart Zender names the song that inspired his hallmark bassline on Jamiroquai's biggest-selling hit
- November 27
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- November 24
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- The 1975’s Adam Hann on his love of John Petrucci’s signature model, divvying up parts with Matty Healy and snapping up Klon Centaurs
- The late Victor Bailey on "kicking ass" with Madonna and embracing Jaco’s legacy in Weather Report
- Kane Roberts on rejoining the Alice Cooper band following Nita Strauss's departure, adjusting to a Kemper and the revival of his fabled machine gun guitar
- Alter Bridge: “One of the hardest dances to do is to make something heavy and technical and still emotional at the same time”
- Level 42 legend Mark King on his 5 most famous bass guitars
- The 10 best covers of Jimi Hendrix songs
- November 23
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- "It was a wild scene up there": The Jimi Hendrix Experience's Billy Cox and Mitch Mitchell recount the explosive, and chaotic, Woodstock set that changed the world
- Nickelback's Chad Kroeger reveals the 10 guitarists who shaped his sound – and they're heavier than you might expect
- The untold history of the Gibson Les Paul/SG TV
- AWOLNATION's Aaron Bruno shares his guitar and emotional journey, and reveals why, for him, "music is mental health"
- Spotlight: Hallie
- November 22
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- Victor Wooten on his S.M.V supergroup with Stanley Clarke and Marcus Miller: “It was like Michael Jordan and LeBron James asking you to be on their basketball team!”
- Meet the ‘Stringer’ Telecaster, one of Fender’s wildest experimental electric guitars
- Lady Gaga bassist Jonny Goood: “Being a young Black brother and playing dirty with a pick is unique to me...”
- Jimi Hendrix was also a master of the bass guitar – he once jammed with Johnny Winter using an upside-down Fender Jazz Bass
- November 21
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- Brian May on unearthing an unreleased Freddie Mercury track and how The Beatles: Get Back inspired the reissue of Queen's 1989 album The Miracle
- Watch Charles Berthoud lead 200 bass players in a magical cover of Queen’s Under Pressure
- Everything you wanted to know about preamp tubes but were too afraid to ask
- November 18
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- How the unlikely partnership of Steve Vai and John Lydon forged one of the most unforgettable alt-rock hits of the '80s
- Mike Dawes: “Guitar right now is heavily edited, very engineered to engage, snippets of sound – the result is music that doesn’t sound like a journey”
- Audioslave’s Cochise has one of the best riffs of the 21st century, but it was first recorded in 1996 with a different singer – hear Tom Morello’s radical original demo
- Suzanne Vega: “I love the acoustic guitar – I always have. I love the sound of it. I love playing it. I love the look of it. I love everything about it”
- How the Fender Mustang went from student guitar to cult classic
- November 17
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- Devin Townsend: “I’m a pretty tranquil person, but that’s mixed with a constant undercurrent of anxiety and intensity”
- Phil Sgrosso: "When you listen to enough Pantera, it's hard to not want to just have fun dive-bombing here and there"
- Sting’s 10 best basslines with The Police
- How does Dolly Parton play guitar with such long fingernails?
- The Lemonheads' Evan Dando on the 30th anniversary of It’s a Shame About Ray: “They’re some of the best songs that I’ve written”
- How Fender shook up the ‘new vintage’ market with the American Vintage II series
- John Shanks offers a tour of his epic gear collection and reflects on a career working with the A-list of pop and rock
- 15 young guns making the Gibson Les Paul cool again
- November 16
- November 15
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- Slowly Slowly: “I want to help people party through the pain”
- A beginner’s guide to Polyphia: album by album
- Jake E. Lee on how he nearly lost the Ozzy Osbourne gig, why he considers using the whammy bar "cheating" and the pressures of replacing Randy Rhoads
- Why Stanley Clarke’s School Days remains an iconic moment in bass playing history
- Nothing More on the personal challenges that fed new album Spirits, and how 2014's Jenny moved the band into a position of mental health advocacy
- Pedal steel master Greg Leisz: “I learnt to improvise on pedal steel by playing in a live band situation with musicians who were better than me”
- Hoobastank's Dan Estrin names the 10 guitarists (and one bassist) who shaped his sound
- November 14
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- November 11
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- 10 power ballads that are easy to play on guitar
- The top 10 air guitar songs of all time
- Spotlight: Viktor Rufus of Kirklandd
- Elizabeth Moen on what makes her ’68 Gibson ES-340 her Excalibur, why she gets anxious when she's away from the guitar for too long and the pedal she will die with
- Brad Barr: “I love cardboard guitars, man, and plastic instruments have a whole unique sound to them”
- November 10
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- The truth behind Lee Sklar's custom 'producer's switch'
- Sammy Hagar on his all-time favorite Van Halen album, and why Michael Anthony's bass playing is better than ever on The Circle's new album, Crazy Times
- Why the Marshall JCM800 2203 was the amp head of choice for a generation of rock and metal guitar players
- The life and times of Johnny Thunders: the New York Dolls and Heartbreakers guitarist who crystallized the essence of street-cool rock ’n’ roll
- 10 household items you can use as guitar accessories
- 22 guitar heroes who shaped the sound of '80s indie and alternative rock
- Watch Yves Carbonne play Teen Town on a custom 2-string bass
- November 9
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- Plini, Nick Johnston and Horace Bray once teamed up for a masterful live jam that proved the future of progressive guitar is in safe hands
- Kings X leader Dug Pinnick: “My ADD meant that practising was useless...”
- Why learning songs is just as important as practicing technical exercises
- How guitar amp speakers work
- Download and stream the audio from Guitar Techniques 342
- Polyphia’s Tim Henson and Scott LePage sit down with Steve Vai to discuss their epic collaboration, the evolution of awe-inspiring technique and a one-of-a-kind guitar gift
- Zakk Wylde on why his new online guitar course is about "not burning the steak", and how he's approaching Dimebag Darrell's parts for Pantera's upcoming shows
- November 8
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- Nova Twins: “Half of my family is from Australia, so I’ve always wanted to go and see what the vibe’s like”
- Jimmy Page on how he pushed himself to the "outside edges" of harmony on Led Zeppelin IV and Houses of the Holy, and the other Stairway to Heaven 12-string
- Michael Anthony: Why Live At Leeds is one of the best live albums of all time
- 19 pro guitarists who play cheap guitars
- The history of the ES-225 – the last affordable 1950s Gibson guitar?
- When Jimi Hendrix met Spock: the incredible story of the guitar legend's encounter with a sci-fi icon
- Opening for Guns N’ Roses, taking lessons from Randy Rhoads and trading licks with Steve Vai: what the Sunset Strip's golden era was really like
- November 7
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- That time Zakk Wylde, Mick Mars, Snake Sabo and more joined forces to cover Led Zeppelin's Rock and Roll – in the Soviet Union
- MonoNeon: “I’m still not over Prince’s death – I was still getting to know him”
- Scott McKeon reveals what’s on his touring pedalboard and explains why the SM Fuzz is his MVP
- Pup on how the unraveling of an indie-punk guitar institution began with a Rhodes piano
- November 4
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- Watch Steve Vai and Zakk Wylde pay tribute to Jimi Hendrix by unleashing fretboard fury on Voodoo Child
- How to eliminate guitar buzz, noise and hum from your rig
- Myles and Layne Ulrich on the epic signal-splitting rigs behind Taipei Houston's fuzz-heavy debut – and why their dad didn't give them any lessons growing up
- Bob Weir: “I’ve pretty much abandoned signal processing. The guitar itself has such variety to offer and it’s so much more elemental”
- Parker Griggs on the radical sound expansion and retro psych guitar influences behind new project El Perro
- November 3
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- Sly Withers: “For however challenging it was to dive that deep into our songs, it was equally exciting”
- Alexisonfire’s Wade MacNeil and Dallas Green on breaking their rules, guitar dynamics and the triumph of screamo
- Gail Ann Dorsey: “David Bowie asked me to sing Under Pressure – I was terrified!"
- Jasper Høiby: 5 perfect jazz basslines you should hear
- Molly Tuttle: “I was like, ‘I’m going to try to write some bluegrass songs’ – and once I started, I couldn’t stop”
- Devin Townsend: “I don’t love playing guitar solos, but I think I’m good at them”
- November 2
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- Ally Venable: “What got me into the blues was discovering Stevie Ray Vaughan – that turned my whole world upside down”
- Jimmy Haslip: How Jimi Hendrix changed my life
- A year before he joined Metallica, Cliff Burton was in a college band with Faith No More’s Jim Martin – watch them jam For Whom the Bell Tolls at a battle of the bands
- Josh Klinghoffer: “I’ve never lost this sense that I’m a beginner, and I think that gives me a more primal approach to the guitar”
- Tim Henson and Scott LePage on how Polyphia made the wildest guitar album of 2022: “We were like, ‘F**k. Did we just blow out Steve Vai’s speakers?’”
- November 1
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- Ocean Alley: “We’re definitely conscious of trying to give each other space”
- Simply Guitar vs Yousician: which online guitar lesson apps is best?
- DYLAN on how her guitar journey was kickstarted by a DIY plywood acoustic and why her upcoming Meteora model might be Fender’s boldest-looking offset yet
- 10 James Jamerson basslines every bass player has to hear
- Pedalboard not performing? Try changing your amp speaker
