Five Riffs You Should Never Play at a Guitar Store—And How to Play Them
Five Riffs You Should Never Play at a Guitar Store—And How to Play Them
Undoubtedly, you’ve walked into your local guitar store to check out...
Experiment: Does Down-Tuning Make Your Guitar Sound Heavier?
Experiment: Does Down-Tuning Make Your Guitar Sound Heavier?
Internet gent and multi-instrumentalist Rob Scallon recently (to use the term loosely) posted a video called "The...
Six Guitar Effects Every Guitarist Should Know—with Songs and Tab
Six Guitar Effects Every Guitarist Should Know—with Songs and Tab
As much as guitarists love the pure tone of a great electric guitar, we also...
Brian May: “The Guitar Isn’t the Most Important Thing”
Brian May: “The Guitar Isn’t the Most Important Thing”
Brian May has some surprising things to say about the guitar in a new interview with...
Monique Ortiz of Alien Knife Fight and Her Wicked Two-String Slide Bass
Monique Ortiz of Alien Knife Fight and Her Wicked Two-String Slide Bass
My very first column for GuitarWorld.com profiled the great Willie Joe and his...
How Nine Famous Guitarists Deal with Broken Strings
How Nine Famous Guitarists Deal with Broken Strings
Someone—better known as YouTube's Blend Guitar—has created a fun and fascinating video that captures a host of...
James Hetfield: No Interest in Lady Gaga Collaboration Despite Lars Ulrich's Comments
James Hetfield: No Interest in Lady Gaga Collaboration Despite Lars Ulrich's Comments
Lars Ulrich called Lady Gaga “the quintessential perfect fifth member” of Metallica following...
Watch Jon Anderson, Geddy Lee and Trevor Rabin Perform with Yes
Watch Jon Anderson, Geddy Lee and Trevor Rabin Perform with Yes
This past Friday night, vocalist Jon Anderson performed with Yes—his former band—at the the Rock and...
How to See Triads on the Guitar’s Neck
How to See Triads on the Guitar’s Neck
How would you like to be able to visual triads in their root position and first and...
Pigtronix shrinks the fuzz
Pigtronix shrinks the fuzz
Pigtronix says its brand new Disnortion (that’s not a typo) Micro ‘packs all the sonic glory and 18V headroom of the...
Top 10 stories of the week: Musikmesse show guide, Top 5 guitar vendors, Ikutaro...
Top 10 stories of the week: Musikmesse show guide, Top 5 guitar vendors, Ikutaro Kakehashi
Check out...
Employing Chromatic Passing Tones to Connect Phrases and Fretboard Positions
Employing Chromatic Passing Tones to Connect Phrases and Fretboard Positions
One of the most commonly addressed topics with my students is how one goes about...
George Harrison's Best Slide Solos? Check Out John Lennon's "How Do You Sleep?" and...
George Harrison's Best Slide Solos? Check Out John Lennon's "How Do You Sleep?" and "Gimme Some Truth"
In mid-1971, more than a year after the...
New James Hetfield Biography: An Interview with Author Mark Eglinton
New James Hetfield Biography: An Interview with Author Mark Eglinton
Mark Eglinton's So Let It Be Written: The Biography of Metallica’s James Hetfield is the first biography...
Which Tuning Standard Sounds Better: 432Hz or 440Hz?
Which Tuning Standard Sounds Better: 432Hz or 440Hz?
In modern music, 440Hz has been established as the tuning standard. The pitch is that of A...
Ritchie Blackmore and Deep Purple Perform in New York in 1973
Ritchie Blackmore and Deep Purple Perform in New York in 1973
We thought we'd glance back at the classic Mark II lineup of Deep Purple—Ritchie...
Warrant Premiere New Song, "Devil Dancer"
Warrant Premiere New Song, "Devil Dancer"
Warrant's new album, Louder Harder Faster, will be released May 12 via Frontiers Music. You can get a taste of...
Geezer Butler: Black Sabbath Considered Recording a Blues Album After '13'
Geezer Butler: Black Sabbath Considered Recording a Blues Album After '13'
We've all heard the rumors that Black Sabbath were recently toying with the idea...
Five Riffs You Should Always Play at Guitar Stores (and How to Play Them)
Five Riffs You Should Always Play at Guitar Stores (and How to Play Them)
A few months back, Robert Baker shared his video for “Five...
How to Memorize Scales and Unlock the Fretboard
How to Memorize Scales and Unlock the Fretboard
Here's is an unorthodox method to memorizing scales using the common three-note-per-string shapes we often employ during...
What’s More Important: An Expensive Guitar or an Expensive Amp?
What’s More Important: An Expensive Guitar or an Expensive Amp?
In a fantasy world where we can choose to have an expensive guitar and an...
Don Felder Tries to Break Ernie Ball’s New Paradigm Strings
Don Felder Tries to Break Ernie Ball’s New Paradigm Strings
Ernie Ball’s new Paradigm strings are the strongest, most durable the company has ever created.
To...
Mastodon's Brent Hinds and Bill Kelliher Talk New Album, 'Emperor of Sand'
Mastodon's Brent Hinds and Bill Kelliher Talk New Album, 'Emperor of Sand'
Time seems to be on Mastodon’s side. Together now for 17 years without...
Intervals and Plini Announce the Plintervals Experience, a Four-Day Music Camp
Intervals and Plini Announce the Plintervals Experience, a Four-Day Music Camp
Music Masters Camps has announced the Plintervals Experience, a summer retreat featuring Intervals—Aaron Marshall,...
Mark Slaughter Premieres New Song, "Hey You"
Mark Slaughter Premieres New Song, "Hey You"
Slaughter vocalist Mark Slaughter recently announced his second solo album, Halfway There, which will be released in May. Today,...
