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- December 30
- December 29
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- December 23
- December 22
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- Remembering the guitarists we lost in 2022
- The story of the 1950s Fender “Payola” Telecasters, which featured one of the wildest guitar mods of all time
- 5 guitar amp recording techniques you need to try
- The birth and evolution of the Martin D-18 Dreadnought – the archetypical acoustic guitar
- Frank Iero and Travis Stever on the tapping, harmonized solos and gear change-ups that fueled post-hardcore supergroup L.S. Dunes' debut
- December 21
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- Chris Wolstenholme’s 10 greatest Muse basslines
- Tom Murphy on the magic of the Les Paul and the Gibson Custom Shop’s meticulous approach to reissues
- The best guitar albums of 2022
- Paul Stanley and Gene Simmons talk classic Kiss tracks, including the lick they ripped off from the Rolling Stones, and the song they nearly gave to Rod Stewart
- December 20
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- Hayden Maringer: “My goal is to bring guitar solos back to popular music – I want them to be at the forefront”
- Flea: “Basslines take on a different type of melody with a pick”
- Inside the strange world of King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard, the most eclectic and prolific guitar band on Earth
- The history of power tubes and how they work
- Sloan’s Patrick Pentland on the art of democratic songwriting, channeling Ace Frehley through a 5150 and why he prefers a wah that looks like a car to a Cry Baby
- Classless Act's Dane Pieper on touring with Mötley Crüe and Def Leppard, and working with Bob Rock on their debut album, Welcome to the Show
- December 19
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- Herbie Flowers: “People have often said that I should've got a writer’s credit for Walk On The Wild Side”
- Graham Coxon: “A big part of me wishes I had just kept everything simple with Blur and played Gibson Les Pauls for everything”
- How Nova Twins took their sound Supernova: “It’s more like electronic music where the bass is so loud. Guitar is the texture in between”
- The evolution of the Les Paul: how Gibson’s single-cut design developed from 1952 to 1978
- December 16
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- Acoustic guitar vs classical guitar: what’s the difference?
- Peter Frampton details his farewell tour guitar rig
- Tim Commerford and Jonny Polonsky on the unlikely origins and promising future of their eclectic new trio project, 7D7D
- Session guitarist Mitch Dalton takes you behind the scenes of the recording of Eric Idle's Always Look on the Bright Side of Life
- December 15
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- Buddy Guy’s 5 greatest guitar songs
- Norman’s Rare Guitars’ Jack Ryan Sullivan talks jamming bluegrass with Coldplay’s Chris Martin, selling guitars to Jack Black, and his favorite instrument in the store
- Marisa Anderson on the art of improvisation versus composition and the everlasting allure of a sustaining electric guitar
- 20 ways to improve your Les Paul
- The 10 most famous bass guitars of Led Zeppelin’s John Paul Jones
- December 14
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- Kenny Wayne Shepherd: "Once I found out we were going to be playing Comfortably Numb, I was quietly hoping Jim Irsay would ask me to play the Black Strat"
- The Surfrajettes on riding the wave of the surf rock revival, and adding '60s reverb twang to Britney Spears and Mariah Carey hits
- Jimmie Vaughan names his 12 favorite Texas blues guitarists
- The 10 best guitar solos of 2022
- Barrie Cadogan talks about his great gear hits and misses, and explains why the Squier 40th Anniversary Jazzmaster is a winner for fans of old-school offsets
- December 13
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- Meet Candy, the Pittsburgh metal band even heavier than Code Orange
- Gordon Giltrap: “All the best stuff comes when you’re not thinking about it. It just flows: you start off with a one-bar idea and then build up on that”
- Chris Buck: “We were shooting for Pink Floyd's Dark Side of the Moon meets Ray LaMontagne”
- Watch Victor Wooten deal with a broken string in the middle of his bass solo
- December 12
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- Meet Borja Catanesi – the viral traveling street guitarist who makes better use of a wireless system than any other player on Earth
- The song in the Guardians of the Galaxy trailer is a lost '90s gem featuring a bass that once belonged to John Lennon
- Peter Frampton on the highs and lows of his remarkable guitar journey, meeting George Harrison, and how David Bowie made him cool again
- December 8
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- Krist Novoselic: “The bass got caught in the TV lights – and then boom!”
- Stevie Ray Vaughan producer Richard Mullen: “When he played Voodoo Child live, he brought a life force to the song that no-one else could possibly do”
- The gear Jimi Hendrix used for his bluesiest moments
- Watch Dimebag Darrell's Destructional Home Video – a lost private guitar lesson from 2003
- Joe Satriani called it the worst record he ever made, but his debut EP featured his most innovative work
- December 7
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- The greatest Strat army in history? Watch Bob Dylan and Robbie Robertson lead Eric Clapton, Ronnie Wood and more in a historic rendition of I Shall Be Released
- Why the Collings OM2H is beloved by so many acoustic fingerstylists
- Download and stream the audio from Guitar Techniques 343
- Phil Manzanera: “When I lived in Venezuela, a British boy showed me how to play R&B like Chuck Berry and that was it. I was converted to rock ’n’ roll”
- Mikey Demus: “For me, it's not about lead prowess – I just value something being memorable. If you can play something that moves someone, that's the ticket”
- The 32 greatest Texas guitarists of all time
- December 6
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- The 10 best guitar riffs of 2022
- Miki Berenyi details the songwriting tension that fueled Lush's landmark '90s releases and the twice-broken Gibson 12-string that helped define her sound
- Crobot’s Chris Bishop on the aggressive expansion of his guitar playing vocabulary and the art of a gnarly groove
- Charlie Jones: “I always wanted a plastic bass guitar, but people never took the idea seriously”
- Michael Angelo Batio: “I still practice vibrato over and over. It determines whether you’ll be a great player when you’re older or not”
- December 5
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- Richie Ranno on auditioning for Ozzy Osbourne, how a uniquely inlaid Strat helped rename Starz and why “there is no future” for the influential hard-rock outfit
- Willow on her quest to solo like St. Vincent, getting two-hand tapping lessons from Yvette Young and why her latest album is a love letter to rock music
- Jamie Lenman names 10 guitarists who shaped his sound
- Steve Miller explains how he ended up getting guitar lessons from T-Bone Walker
- That time a priceless 145-year-old Martin acoustic was smashed on the set of a Quentin Tarantino film
- Live Review: Good Things Festival, Melbourne 02/12/22
- December 2
- December 1
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- NOFX's Fat Mike: “You can play bass better with a thin pick. Our job, as bass players, is to play whole notes – not sharp ones – and play them smooth”
- Watch Will Lee and Richard Bona cover Liberty City by Jaco Pastorius in this exclusive clip from the Beneath The Bassline documentary
- Sunn O)))'s Greg Anderson: “Getting the volume up has never been an issue for me!”
- Måneskin’s Victoria De Angelis and Thomas Raggi on Eurovision glory, supporting the Stones and making guitar-driven rock with zero limits
- John Petrucci shares his top 3 tips for better guitar tone
