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“Thanks to the best guitar player on planet Earth”: Post Malone surprises Bonnaroo by calling up bluegrass virtuoso Billy Strings for a pyro-fueled guest spot

Billy Strings joined Post Malone onstage for bluegrass-tinged renditions of two Malone hits

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“Thin Lizzy prepared me for Skynyrd. They said, ‘You need to learn these songs note for note.’ I said, ‘I wouldn’t dream of doing it any other way’”: Damon Johnson on having one of rock’s most enviable resumés – and why Eddie Van Halen gifted him a guitar

From touring with Van Halen, to finding his own niche as a blood-and-guts player with some of rock’s biggest names

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“Sneaky hidden Sustainiac!” Joe Satriani is playing an EVH Striped Series Eruption guitar on the Best of All Worlds tour – but it’s had some surprise mods

Satch will be tackling various Van Halen eras on the upcoming tour, and it looks like he's crafted a do-it-all Frankenstein replica for the job

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“They’re probably some of the first guitar solos I ever learned”: Trey Anastasio tackles Steely Dan classics in searing Songwriters Hall of Fame performance

The Phish guitarist honored Steely Dan and their session guitarists’ work with an extended version of the Reelin’ in the Years solo

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“The absence of the Rampage left a void in the guitar world”: G&L launches the long-awaited Rampage 24 – which gives Jerry Cantrell’s workhorse grunge machine a 21st century overhaul

The new Rampage era gets underway with a model that introduces new hardware and ergonomics to the template. Is it enough to appease hardened Rampage fans?

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“My older content was way more technique-driven… I wanted to become more sophisticated. Virtuoso music can be impressive but extremely shallow”: Martin Miller on how he recruited Paul Gilbert, Lari Basilio and Mateus Asato for his world-beating jams

The Ibanez signature artist talks forsaking his shred roots, how to approach chord changes and those world-class live sessions with the likes of Paul Gilbert and Andy Timmons

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Merle Travis, Lester Flatt and Hank Williams pioneered the Americana guitar style – and laid the groundwork for today’s folk, country and bluegrass guitar stars

This lesson borrows from the pioneers of country and bluegrass that will whip your Travis picking and strumming into shape

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“An affordable option for adding atmospheric soundscapes”: Walrus Audio Fundamental Ambient review

Walrus Audio delivers a competitively priced stompbox with three reverb modes that offer a heady alternative to your standard issue room, plate and spring

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Keith Richards is an electric guitar icon, but he prefers playing acoustic – and his unplugged Rolling Stones approach is full of smart ideas

Every player can learn a few tricks from Keef's characterful acoustic style – even if his rhythmic swagger will take longer to master

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“The faster you get in the zone, the better the music is, so why wait?” Dean Brown was a fusion master who played with everyone from Marcus Miller to Eric Clapton – and maintained there are only two rules in music

Session ace, author and teacher, and a guitarist who put mind, body and soul into his playing, the late Dean Brown was a fusion legend. We pay tribute to his physical style

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Dissonant guitar chords: 5 voicings that will add suspense and tension to your playing

The Asus2(addb5) might sound mind-boggling, but it's easy to play, sounds fascinating, and is one of five voicings to add to your chord vocabulary

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“The three-finger thing is actually easy. It’s like learning the patterns on a video game until you conquer it”: Billy Sheehan explains his three-finger plucking technique

After almost 60 years of playing bass, Billy Sheehan is still learning – and still flooring listeners

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“Sometimes the guitar will tell you what it likes the best. Each piece of wood is different, in the same way that each of us is different”: How to choose the right strings for your guitar (and your playing style)

String guru Curt Mangan busts myths and drops knowledge that will help us make better decisions when it comes to the most fundamental gear purchase we routinely make

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“A special guitar that features art by world-renowned artists”: Fender Japan’s latest Art Canvas creations bring an iconic Japanese art landscape print series from the 1800s to the Esquire

The three models celebrate the first anniversary of Fender's flagship Tokyo store, and each boasts a piece from legendary Japanese artist Hokusai's famed Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji series

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“The pinnacle of dad rock”: This survey claims to have identified the ultimate dad rock band – but there was some surprising competition

New analysis has created the ultimate dad rock playlist, and revealed which band each US state thinks is the dad-iest of them all

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“I’m not sure how that applies to what we do, but he’s a great guitar player!” Chris Shiflett channels Eruption – minus the two-hand tapping – on a Gibson Les Paul during Eddie Van Halen-honoring solo

Shiflett seized the opportunity to emulate one of his biggest heroes with a flashy intro lick-fest as Foo Fighters kicked off their UK tour

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“Co-written with my guitar wizard son”: Tom Morello announces his first-ever full-length solo rock album with single co-written with Roman Morello – who can “shred circles” around him

The Rage Against The Machine guitarist's first rock solo album releases later this year, and it will showcase the next generation of Morello shred

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“That doesn’t make any sense. It was not worth that”: Guitar collector and Indianapolis Colts owner Jim Irsay doesn’t think Kurt Cobain’s MTV Unplugged acoustic was worth $6 million

The renowned guitar collector has had his say on the sale of Cobain's Martin D-18E, which currently stands as the most expensive guitar ever sold at auction

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“Some say our music has polyrhythm, but it’s simply 4/4. I guess it confuses anyone who hears it for the first time”: How Peter Nordin navigated a 172bpm maze of nightmarish polymetric riffs on Meshuggah’s Future Breed Machine

Original Meshuggah bassist Peter Nordin breaks down the tech-metal trailblazers’ 1995 underground classic

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“Far more than just an impeccable tube tone emulator. It's an entire rig solution packed into one portable pedal”: Laney’s new IR-loaded Loudpedals might just be the all-in-one pedal amps you’ve been waiting for

Two channels, 60 watts and Laney's LAIR tech headline the well-equipped stompboxes, which were designed in collaboration with Tom Quayle and Martin Miller

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“That record is such a wonderful thing for a beginner guitar player. The riffs are cool as hell and they're easy to figure out”: Tim Henson names the album that all aspiring guitarists should learn

The Polyphia virtuoso says learning to play this iconic record by ear had a huge impact on his riff-writing abilities

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“I mentioned Nile Rodgers on the radio. The next day he messaged me to get down to Abbey Road right now”: Meet Alfie Templeman, the rising Gen Z guitar star inspired by ’70s prog and ’80s Bowie

With Rodgers guesting on his second album, the 21-year-old is committed to Strat-ing his way out of his comfort zone – preferably without TikToking all the time

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“These may represent the ideal all-in-one amp solutions for the modern guitarist”: New From Laney – LOUDPEDAL amp bliss in a pedalboard format

These compact pedal amps are packed with boutique amp artistry yet provide ultra-portable and recording-friendly solutions

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“Johnny Marr stood there for five minutes watching me use a reverb tank as a guitar bow. He must have thought it was the stupidest thing he’d ever seen”: Meet LA Priest, the inventor-guitarist questioning everything you know about tone

UK musician and tonal pioneer Sam Eastgate is using a pile of self-built pedals, an obscure guitar and an amp he literally found in a dumpster to create a sound unlike anything else

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“Asuser-friendly as a guitar can get”: Strandberg Boden Essential review

The groundbreaking sound and feel of Strandberg's future-forward guitar designs arrives at a price more of us can manage, but does this craft translate to a more affordable instrument? You bet

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