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“The biggest mindset shift is that guitarists should think of themselves as athletes”: As arthritis creeps into the hands of aging guitar heroes, what can we do to prolong our peak playing days?

Joint disorder doesn’t mean a divorce from your beloved guitars – but you need to focus on prevention, not cure

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“It’s rewarding to learn your favorite solos note for note, but studying the chord progression underneath will put your own spin on things”: 10 great guitar looping songs that will help you hone your playing

Looping these classic chord progressions will get you familiar with some fresh soloing concepts

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"Her voice was insanely gorgeous and powerful. I've got all her albums, live recordings, everything." Tarja picks the songs that have soundtracked her life

Former Nightwish singer and solo star Tarja picks her records,artists and gigs of lasting significance, and names the music that terrifies her

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“What makes this album so interesting is the fact that there are guitars that are not totally in tune – but good luck trying to get a take as good as that!”: The creative genius and ‘insane’ methodology in Van Halen’s biggest selling album

“Eddie and Alex jammed for hours and hours, day after day, until they hit upon something so unique that is so perfectly natural”

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“From the minute their song came out, my email flooded with people going, ‘Have you heard this song by Coldplay? They ripped you off, man’”: When Joe Satriani took Coldplay to court – and sued them over one of their biggest hits

The shred virtuoso took action against Chris Martin and co over Viva La Vida, which he alleged plagiarized one of his own instrumental tracks

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“I spent hours in the studio on this one song. Pummelled it to death! I probably spent $10,000 trying to get it to work”: Joe Satriani on his biggest waste of money, his most humiliating review, and what he taught Kirk Hammett

“Kirk knew exactly what he liked – he was into Stevie Ray Vaughan, Hendrix, Schenker”

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“I said, ‘But Ed’s still alive. He’s still making amazing records. He’s still on tour. What guitar player would ever try to imitate him while he’s still working?’”: Joe Satriani recalls being approached by David Lee Roth for a Van Halen cover band

Satch may be filling Van Halen’s shoes during the Sammy Hagar-led Best of All Worlds tour, but he was reluctant for decades to play the legendary guitarist’s parts

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Pinch harmonics made easy: how to get the perfect squeal

Our definitive guide on how Billy Gibbons, Eddie Van Halen, Steve Vai and Zakk Wylde make their guitars scream

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“Ed’s own techs said the only person that could help was this girl outta Nashville. Joe called me and said, ‘Apparently I should be talking to you’”: How Joe Satriani found the amp builder for his dream Eddie Van Halen tone

Satriani needed an amp with exacting specifications for the Best of All Worlds tour – and he got more than he bargained for

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"I don't know how many thousands of times I've sung it, but I've never once thought 'Oh no, not tonight'." How Deep Purple created an all-time hard rock classic with a song that "didn't go anywhere"

Built from a riff that came from nowhere, Smoke On The Water has been covered by everyone from ‘Weird’ Al Yankovic to Black Sabbath

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“The poor guy died out there and wasn’t discovered for 2 weeks. A perfect place to make beautiful music, right?” Steve Vai’s LA property – and his Harmony Hut guitar sanctuary – has been listed for $11.7 million

Despite a slightly chilling past, Vai used the space as a functioning studio and a home for his guitar collection, which included guitars personally gifted to him by Yngwie Malmsteen and Joe Satriani

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Joe Satriani called her version of Always With Me, Always With You “the most impressive” he's ever seen. Meet Andrea Krakovská, the “aerial guitarist” combining fretboard acrobatics with real acrobatics

The self-described “aerial guitarist” tears it up while performing dizzying feats of aerial choreography, often upside-down – and her Satch cover earned plaudits from Herman Li and the master himself

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Steve Vai, Joe Satriani and Pete Thorn trade solos over Led Zeppelin classic at recent SatchVai Band show

Huge tunes from Led Zep and Steppenwolf, and three shredders brought the house down in Portland

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“If you talked to me when I was 25 years old, I would have been frightened to take a solo after Joe Satriani…” Why Cory Wong is no longer afraid to trade leads with his heroes

Wong and bassist to the stars Oteil Burbridge discuss the importance of developing – and being confident in – your own playing style

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“I kept saying, ‘I’m not the guy. Call Nuno’”: Joe Satriani put Nuno Bettencourt’s name forward for failed EVH tribute tour with Alex Van Halen and David Lee Roth

Before embarking on the Best of All Worlds tour with Sammy Hagar, Satch was close to hitting the road for a Van Halen tribute tour with Roth and Alex Van Halen

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“I’d wake up in the morning and I wouldn’t be able to move my pinky. I’d think, ‘Is this the end?’” Joe Satriani opens up on the hand injury that forced him to relearn how to play his songs

Satch stuck it out for an entire tour before seeking help from a specialist, and it prompted him to explore new ways of playing the guitar

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“I said, ‘Sam, I’m gonna tell you what I told Alex, which is, I don’t really play like Eddie’”: Joe Satriani says he told David Lee Roth and Alex Van Halen to call Nuno Bettencourt when they called about EVH tribute tour

Satch says the tribute tour got close to a show, but after it all fell through, Sammy Hagar came in with an offer he couldn’t refuse, and he needed a new amp to nail Eddie Van Halen's tone

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“They already had Buckethead. I was thinking, ‘Who’s the craziest and the best?’ I knew there was only one guy”: Joe Satriani on the guitar ace he recommended for the Guns N’ Roses gig

Axl Rose was on the lookout for a player who could match Buckethead's ability and eccentricity – and Satch knew just who to call

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“I was using my Line 6 POD. He said, ‘I’ve got something that may work better.’ He sent me two things in the mail…” When Joe Satriani volunteered to help Dethklok mastermind Brendon Small with his home recording

Small's appearance in the new SatchVai music video isn't his first collaboration with the two virtuosos. They cropped up on his cult animated TV series, Metalocalypse, and have since become mentors

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“I’m watching this sort of genius develop right in front of me, and he seems he has no physical barriers”: Joe Satriani on what it was like to teach a teenage Steve Vai

Here's this "goofy" Ace Frehley fan with big hands and he keeps coming back for more... Satch says it wasn't long before he recognised Vai's potential

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“Joe Satriani said,‘Every time I do an album, I feel like the first song I have to prove that I can play guitar’”: Why Paul Gilbert thinks it’s important to practice restraint when it comes to shredding

Every guitarist plays with a point to prove, he says, but we shouldn’t always be playing in fifth gear

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“Joe Satriani said, ‘Every time I do an album, I feel like the first song I have to prove that I can play guitar. I wish I could let that go.’ I thought, ‘I know exactly what you mean’”: Paul Gilbert on why it’s so hard to resist the urge to shred

Gilbert says shred can sometimes be the easy way to give his audience what they want, but their expectations only make him want to work harder on his melodies

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Joe Satriani’s amp builder has released a potentially game-changing pickup system – which gives players the power to choose where their gain is created

3rd Power's MagFRAG system has been channeled into two new pickup lines that could give players unprecedented tonal control

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“If you have a 16-bar guitar solo, please don’t turn into Yngwie Malmsteen orJoe Satriani”: Ian Anderson had some soloing advice for Jethro Tull’s new guitarist

No Arpeggios From Hell!? Denied! What the hopping flautist with the wild-eyed stare told Jack Clark when it came time to track leads for Jethro Tull's latest album, Curious Ruminant

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"If you have a sixteen-bar guitar solo, please don't turn into Yngwie Malmsteen or Joe Satriani": Ian Anderson on Jethro Tull, the right kind of guitarist, and forgetting what he's done

Ian Anderson talks about Jethro Tull’s latest album Curious Ruminant and ponders the itch to make another

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