Tag: guitar world

Last month, I introduced the concept of bringing the country guitar technique known as chicken pickin’ into metal music and metal-style solos.  To review, the technique is performed using hybrid…

Paul Gilbert recently sat down with Total Guitar to discuss everything from his new album to the saxophone. One particularly eye-catching part of the interview though, was when Gilbert discussed…

The Pentatonic scale is one of the most utilized scales in music. It can be heard in nearly every culture of music around the world and has served as the…

Black Country Communion—the rock group comprised of vocalist/bassist Glenn Hughes (Deep Purple, Trapeze), drummer Jason Bonham (Led Zeppelin, Foreigner), Derek Sherinian (Dream Theater, Alice Cooper, Billy Idol) and blues-rock guitarist/vocalist…

Four years ago, Richie Sambora was vacationing in Hawaii and was asked by his old pal Alice Cooper to join him onstage at his annual charity concert for the Maui…

Awhile ago, legendary Pantera bassist Rex Brown stopped by the Guitar World studios in New York. Though he was there primarily to give us an exclusive playthrough video of “Train…

Philadelphia rockers The War on Drugs have premiered the music video for their song, “Nothing to Find.” Philadelphia rockers The War on Drugs have premiered the music video for their…

How about a scary story since we’re so close to Halloween? There once was a guitar player named Jerry. Creativity struck, but as Jerry reached for his amp’s power switch,…

Fats Domino, the legendary pianist and songwriter whose songs left an enormous mark on the development of rock ‘n’ roll, has died at the age of 89, according to the…