Chuck Berry's "Johnny B. Goode": One of the 100 Greatest Guitar Solos of All...
Chuck Berry's "Johnny B. Goode": One of the 100 Greatest Guitar Solos of All Time
Chuck Berry helped shape rock and roll by mixing elements...
How Chuck Berry Wrote “Johnny B. Goode” and Created the First Rock and Roll...
How Chuck Berry Wrote “Johnny B. Goode” and Created the First Rock and Roll Guitar Hero
This is an excerpt from Play It Loud: An...
Uwe Bossert Demos New Kemper Profiler Pitch Delays
Uwe Bossert Demos New Kemper Profiler Pitch Delays
Here’s a clip from Kemper featuring guitarist Uwe Bossert showcasing some of the new pitch delays that...
Watch 14-Year-Old Taz Niederauer Play the National Anthem at a Devils Game
Watch 14-Year-Old Taz Niederauer Play the National Anthem at a Devils Game
Brandon "Taz" Niederauer rang in his 14th birthday in a decidedly cool way:...
Ernie Ball Shares Tips on How to Avoid Breaking Guitar Strings
Ernie Ball Shares Tips on How to Avoid Breaking Guitar Strings
Ernie Ball, creators of Paradigm, the company’s new ultra-durable guitar strings, have shared a...
Kenny Wayne Shepherd Tries to Break Ernie Ball’s New Paradigm Strings
Kenny Wayne Shepherd Tries to Break Ernie Ball’s New Paradigm Strings
To drive home the concept behind Paradigm, Ernie Ball’s new break-resistant and ultra-durable guitar...
Heart's Nancy Wilson to Debut New Side Project at 5th Annual Rock Against MS...
Heart's Nancy Wilson to Debut New Side Project at 5th Annual Rock Against MS Benefit
Richie Kotzen has joined the ever-growing lineup for the 5th...
Steve Vai Shares His Private Guitar Collection
Steve Vai Shares His Private Guitar Collection
When Steve Vai appeared on the cover of the September 2016 issue of Guitar World to discuss his latest...
Dave Mustaine's Attempts at Singing "A Tout Le Monde" in Japanese Were "Pretty Horrific"
Dave Mustaine's Attempts at Singing "A Tout Le Monde" in Japanese Were "Pretty Horrific"
In a recent interview with WRIF, Megadeth frontman Dave Mustaine revealed that French...
The Almighty Riff: Suggestions for Stimulating Musical Creativity
The Almighty Riff: Suggestions for Stimulating Musical Creativity
The following is a classic column from the pages of Guitar World.
Every great rock song has a great...
US government offers CITES overview
US government offers CITES overview
The US Fish and Wildlife service has created a succinct summing-up of the current import and travel rules surrounding musical...
New Stetsbars fit to Fenders and wrap-arounds
New Stetsbars fit to Fenders and wrap-arounds
Stetsbar, the US manufacturer of highly regarded retrofit vibrato systems, has launched new models to fit Fender Jazzmasters,...
ZED brings Outlaw pedals to UK
ZED brings Outlaw pedals to UK
Zed Music Distribution has added Outlaw, a new range of entry level effects pedals, to its growing line-up of...
MADD Men: The Minor Add-2 Arpeggio
MADD Men: The Minor Add-2 Arpeggio
Last month, I offered a guitar adaptation of the theme from The Walking Dead, which is based on a...
Navigating the Intricate Seven-String Licks in Periphery's “Flatline”
Navigating the Intricate Seven-String Licks in Periphery's “Flatline”
Throughout the course of these columns, my focus has been primarily on the six-string guitar parts I’ve...
How to Play Like DADGAD Pioneer Davey Graham
How to Play Like DADGAD Pioneer Davey Graham
A key figure of the early Sixties British folk revival, Davey Graham (1940–2008) was a unique steel-string–wielding...
When to Change Your Guitar Strings
When to Change Your Guitar Strings
Do you know the only time most guitarists change all their strings is when they break one? I know...
Brad Tolinski Discusses Jimi Hendrix's Days as a Sideman
Brad Tolinski Discusses Jimi Hendrix's Days as a Sideman
Dagger Records has released Curtis Knight: Live at George’s Club 20 1965 & 1966 on CD, and...
Combining Pentatonic Scales to Create Unexpected Phrases
Combining Pentatonic Scales to Create Unexpected Phrases
The word pentatonic is derived from the Greek penta, meaning five, and tonic, meaning tone. So, as its...
Focusing on Specific Fretboard Positions for Rhythm and Soloing
Focusing on Specific Fretboard Positions for Rhythm and Soloing
Focusing on specific fretboard positions for rhythm and soloing As I stated last month, the are...
How to Utilize Unusual Alternate Tunings Like Jimmy Page
How to Utilize Unusual Alternate Tunings Like Jimmy Page
Jimmy Page is regarded as one of rock’s greatest guitarists, bandleaders and producers for the incredibly...
Exploring the Diminished Scale with Alex Skolnick
Exploring the Diminished Scale with Alex Skolnick
The diminished scale is a highly useful resource for adding spice to solos, creating unique licks and formulating...
See Robert Plant’s First “Kashmir” Performance Without Jimmy Page
See Robert Plant’s First “Kashmir” Performance Without Jimmy Page
Robert Plant performed Led Zeppelin’s “Kashmir” for the first time without former bandmate Jimmy Page on...
Why Every Guitarist Should Master the Harmonic Minor Scale
Why Every Guitarist Should Master the Harmonic Minor Scale
Titans of the guitar like Yngwie Malmsteen swear by the sound of the harmonic minor scale....
Review: Boss Waza Craft CE-2W Chorus Pedal
Review: Boss Waza Craft CE-2W Chorus Pedal
The Boss CE-2 Chorus and its big brother predecessor the CE-1 (along with the same effect built into...
