These videos and audio files are bonus content related to the May 2016 issue of Guitar World. For the full range of interviews, features, tabs and more, pick up the new issue on newsstands now or at the Guitar World Online Store.
Lesson Videos
• Joel Hoekstra Lesson: Using a Pedal Tone to Forge Fast, Keyboard-like Phrases
• Tommy Emmanuel Lesson: Modifying a Picking Pattern to Accentuate a Melody
• Mark Holcomb Lesson: Creating Riffs from Arpeggios, and the Intro and Verses to “Priestess”
• Jimmy Brown Lesson: “Hopak,” the Uptempo “Fight Club” Song of the Ukrainian Kozaky
• Andy Aledort Lesson: Infusing Major Pentatonic Patterns with Chromatic Passing Tones
Audio Lesson Files
• Dale Turner Lesson: Celebrating 50 Years of Jorma Kaukonen’s Fingerpicking Prowess
Gear Review Videos
• Review: Ernie Ball Music Man St. Vincent Signature Guitar
• Review: Taylor Guitars 562e 12-Fret 12-String
• Review: Peavey 6505 MH Guitar Amp
• Review: D’Angelico Guitars EX-DC Deluxe
• Review: Danelectro '64 Guitar
• Review: Mojotone Quiet Coil Strat Pickups
Bonus Video
• Demo: Fostinis Guitars Matadaur-M
“I thought that it was a crime that these songs were sitting there on the shelf”: In the 1970s, Hayley Williams’ grandfather made an album that nobody heard. Now it’s finally being released through her Paramore bandmate’s label
“He got a kidney infection, so he’s in hospital… That’s a bit of a drag, because he was going to be the lead guitarist”: The iconic charity rock song that missed out on its star guitarist due to illness – and why it could have sounded very different
