Music
Guitar World
The Big Picture, Part 2
How to build a guitar solo to a powerful climax
2 min |
December 2025
Guitar World
Martin GPE Inception Maple
Progressive, powerful lutherie with piano-like clarity
3 min |
December 2025
Guitar World
Rising Son
With their third album (and a bit of his dad's Frankenstein), Wolfgang Van Halen and Mammoth are taking the world of rock guitar by storm once again - critics, anxiety and wildfires be damned
10 min |
December 2025
Guitar World
HOLDING DOWN THE FORT
What does it take to be in Guns N'Roses for 23 years and counting? Let's just say that for Richard Fortus, it requires tone mastery, the ability to mesh with his legendary gunslinger partner and a highly desirable signature Gretsch
10 min |
December 2025
Guitar World
EarthQuaker Devices Easy Listening
A guitar headphone amplifier that aims to make things easy breezy for players with pedalboards
2 min |
December 2025
Guitar World
Back to the Top
Essential blues turnarounds, part 2
2 min |
December 2025
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Cardinal Black
How many bands take 16 years to craft their debut album? This one did...
4 min |
December 2025
Guitar World
Blackstar ID:X 50
In the fierce modelling combo amp market, can Blackstar deliver?
2 min |
December 2025
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Canyon Lights
Pat Faherty, formerly of Boston blues hounds GA-20, resurfaces in a new power trio
2 min |
December 2025
Guitar World
Samantha Fish
With her latest studio release, the Kansas City blues rocker bottles the energy of life on the road
6 min |
December 2025
Guitar World
SLASH AND BURN
Saul “Slash” Hudson is the luckiest man in rock. Quitting Guns N’ Roses in ’96 when they were on top of the world, he returned in ’16 for the ultimate victory lap, making peace with Axl Rose, playing guitar at the peak of his powers – and even learning to love a certain, harmonics-heavy ballad
10+ min |
December 2025
Guitar World
Boss VG-800
A guitar chameleon with the ability to dramatically transform your instrument
2 min |
December 2025
Guitar World
Fender Ultra Luxe Vintage '60s Telecaster Custom
Does this high-end mix of the classic and the contemporary succeed?
3 min |
December 2025
Guitar World
Christone “Kingfish" Ingram
It's a new era for the blues guitar prodigy of our times
7 min |
December 2025
Guitar World
EVH 5150 Iconic Series 15-watt 1x10 Combo
This might be the smallest amp in the Iconic series, but it sure packs plenty of firepower
2 min |
December 2025
Guitar World
Brent Hinds
On August 20, we lost one of modern heavy music's most accomplished guitarists. We salute the master of Mastodon
8 min |
December 2025
Guitar World
Tools of the Trade #16, Part 2
Using a Gibson ES-350 for rock rhythm guitar
2 min |
December 2025
Guitar World
Joe Bonamassa
When you're on a winning streak, don't mess with the formula - and opinions be damned, says the perennial blues phenomenon
9 min |
December 2025
Guitar World
Puzzle Jumping
Effective ways to arrange regular and baritone guitar parts
2 min |
December 2025
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Larry McCray
After his career flagged, intervention from Joe Bonamassa and Josh Smith brought this Michigan master to the forefront of the blues
1 min |
December 2025
Guitar World
BLUES RBOOM!
Is Buddy Guy our greatest living blues guitarist? As his 10th decade approaches, we meet the master for a frank talk about passing the torch, the importance of a sip of cognac and the advice he gave Jimi Hendrix
6 min |
December 2025
Guitar World
THE GEAR HUNTER Suhr Guitars
John Suhr knows a thing or two about tone. Hey, the guy oversaw repairs at Rudy's Music in NYC, modded amps with Bob Bradshaw, became a Senior Master Builder and launched his own admired brand
5 min |
December 2025
Guitar World
Ana Popovic
The Serbian guitarist on the \"jubilant\" recording of her new album
2 min |
December 2025
Guitar World
Diary of a Madman
The unique life and (very) high times of John “Ozzy\" Osbourne
10 min |
November 2025
Guitar World
The Rock-Steady Straight Shooter
Remembering Bad Company's Mick Ralphs (1944–2025)
6 min |
November 2025
Guitar World
PRS SE NF 53
Say hello to a new T-style guitar with some seriously broad appeal
3 min |
November 2025
Guitar World
Missing the Crazy Train
We know about the star guitarists who played with Ozzy's band over his four- decade career — but what about the guys (and gals) who didn't make the grade?
8 min |
November 2025
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HOW TO PLAY THIS MONTH'S SONGS
GUITARIST TRAVIS STEVER kicks off this driving, uptempo rock song with a punchy, syncopated lead riff in the key of D minor, playing in the 10th-position D minor penta-tonic “box” and aggressively digging into his note attacks with both hands (see bars 1-12).
4 min |
November 2025
Guitar World
The Good, The Bad & The Ozzy
In early 1990, Guitar World's Brad Tolinski sat down with Ozzy Osbourne and asked him to assess Tony Iommi, Randy Rhoads, Jake E. Lee and Zakk Wylde
10+ min |
November 2025
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Gimme a Three for Texas
After coming up on the same scene, Texas-bred lonestars Jesse Dayton, Johnny Moeller and Ian Moore put their heads together as the Texas Headhunters
4 min |