Get Jonny Lang’s New Single “Make It Move” for FREE!

Fans who have waited four years for Jonny Lang to release a new album not only have some good news about new music — Signs [Concord] is set to drop…

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Fender Custom Shop Tackles One of the Most Recorded Telecasters of All Time

We recently profiled the amazing session guitarist Bob Bain in our May 2017 issue. Bain has recorded hundreds — if not thousands — of iconic, historic, and popular tracks for…

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Keith Richards: Why I Hardly Ever Use Effect Pedals

PHOTO: Kevin Winter/Getty Images In the ongoing—and always entertaining—”Ask Keith Richards” video series, someone posed a doozy to the legendary Rolling Stones guitarist: “Why do you hardly ever use..

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Jimi’s “Are You Experienced” is 50 Years Old Today!

On May 12, 1967, one of the most influential electric-guitar albums from one of the most transcendent electric guitarists of all time was dropped on a relatively unsuspecting pop-music community….

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If You Feel You’re Not Getting Better at Guitar…

As an online educator with more than 16,000 students to date, I’ve had the opportunity to communicate with every type of guitar player on the planet. While we all have…

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Kenny Wayne Shepherd Band Premiere New Song, “Baby Got Gone”

Today we’ve gotten together with the Kenny Wayne Shepherd Band to premiere “Baby Got Gone,” the first single from their highly anticipated new album, Lay It On Down , which…

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Listen to Los Straitjackets’ Guitar-Packed Nick Lowe Tribute Album

PHOTO: Cindy Moorhead On May 19, Los Straitjackets—aka “America’s Instrumentalists”—will release their latest album, What’s So Funny About Peace, Love and Los Straitjackets , via Yep Roc Records. The..

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Why the Pentatonic Scale Is Bad for You

PHOTO: Martin Hesketh/Flickr Creative Commons “Sometimes in life, the things we love the most are the very same things that hurt us very deeply.” So says guitar instructor Sean Daniel,…

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Dave Mustaine Says He Doesn’t Practice Guitar Anymore Due to Spinal Injury

PHOTO: Frazer Harrison/Getty Images As some fans might know, Megadeth frontman Dave Mustaine underwent spinal surgery in 2014. Twelve years before that, however, Mustaine suffered severe radial nerve..

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Guitar Cheats: Three Ways to Solo Like a Pro

PHOTO: Cindy Moorhead Today we present “Three Ways to Solo Like a Pro,” part 3 of Darrell Braun’s popular “guitar cheats” series of lessons. By the way, if you missed…

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