Guitar World: August 2014 Gear and Lesson Videos

These videos and audio files are bonus content related to the August 2014 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

• Full Shred with Marty Friedman: How to Play Fast and Musical Arpeggio-Based Licks without Sweep Picking — Video
• Thrash Course with Dave Davidson: Using Minor-Seven Flat-Five Chords in Metal — Video
• String Theory with Jimmy Brown: Bluesy SRV-, Betts- and Page-Style Soloing Over a Mid-Sixties Jazz Classic — Video
• Metal For Life with Metal Mike Chlasciak: Injecting Unusual, Jarring Chord Voicings into Metal Rhythm Parts — Video
• In Deep with Andy Aledort: Devising Creative Chord Patterns and Voicings from the A Aeolian Mode — Video

Audio Lesson Files

• Acoustic Nation with Dale Turner: The Guitar Gospel of Brilliant Fingerstylist Doyle Dykes
• Talkin’ Blues with Keith Wyatt: Electric Soul — Snooks Eaglin, Part 2

Gear Review Videos

• Review: Jackson Chris Broderick Pro Series Soloist 6 and JS32 Dinky Arch Top Guitars — Video
• Review: Ibanez ES2 Echo Shifter — Video
• Review: Blackstar HT Metal 100 Guitar Amp — Video
• Review: MusicVox MI-5 and Space Cadet Custom Special — Video
• Review: EarthQuaker Devices Terminal Pedal — Video
• Review: Electra Glide Guitar in Black — Video
• Review: Dunlop EP101 Echoplex Preamp — Video

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