Guitar World

Guitar World is the world’s leading guitar magazine. Professionals and beginners alike turn to Guitar World for top-flight coverage of their favorite artists, from rock titans like Led Zeppelin's Jimmy Page and Metallica's Kirk Hammett to contemporary stars like the White Stripes' Jack White and Tool's Adam Jones. Every issue of Guitar World magazine offers broad-ranging interviews that cover technique, instruments and lifestyles as well as Guitar World’s famously thorough lessons and transcriptions.

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SOUNDING BOARD

Got Their Mojo Working • HOW GA-20’S MATTHEW STUBBS AND PAT FAHERTY CRACK DOWN ON THE SLICK, OVERPRODUCED SOUNDS OF MODERN COMMERCIAL BLUES

Soccer Mommy • HOP INTO SOPHIE ALLISON’S HONDA ODYSSEY AND LET HER CART YOU OFF TO A BETTER PLACE

Crobot • THE PENNSYLVANIA HARD ROCKERS’ LATEST RECORD IS A CELEBRATION OF STRAIGHT-UP, FAT-FREE RIFFERY

Dead Cross • MICHAEL CRAIN AND JUSTIN PEARSON TAKE YOU DEEP INSIDE THE HARDCORE PUNK SUPERGROUP’S LATEST RABID EFFORT, II

INQUIRER PHIL MANZANERA • THE LONGTIME ROXY MUSIC GUITARIST TALKS OBSCURE GEAR, EARLY GIGS AND EMBARRASSING ON-STAGE MOMENTS

Candlemass • AFTER DECADES OF TRIALS AND TRIBULATIONS, THE FIRE BENEATH THESE SWEDISH DEATH METAL GODS BURNS BRIGHTER THAN EVER

Fallujah • SCOTT CARSTAIRS AMPS UP THE AGGRESSION FOR EMPYREAN, WHICH TAPS INTO THE SPIRIT OF “AN EXCITED 17-YEAR-OLD WHO KNOWS HOW TO PLAY GUITAR”

Madison Cunningham • THE SINGER-SONGWRITER EXPLORES MIND-BENDING TONES AND RHYTHMS ON HER LATEST ALBUM, REVEALER

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MY ASYMMETRICAL ROMANCE • 10 COOL AXES THAT VEER FROM THE TRADITIONAL TO THE CURVY AND OBLIQUE

BEGGIN’ FOR MORE • ITALY’S MÅNESKIN ARE AN UNLIKELY WORLDWIDE SENSATION. IN THIS EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW, GW TRACKS DOWN GUITARIST THOMAS RAGGI AND BASSIST VICTORIA DE ANGELIS TO FIND OUT EXACTLY WHAT MAKES THIS STEAMROLLER ROCK (AND ROLL)

G1 • FOR THE FIRST TIME EVER, JOHN PETRUCCI HITS THE ROAD — SOLO

GREATEST TEXAS GUITARISTS OF ALL TIME

T FOR TEXAS • LONG BEFORE HE FLEW LIKE AN EAGLE, STEVE MILLER LEARNED HIS FIRST BLUES LICKS — LITERALLY AT THE FOOT OF THE MASTER, T-BONE WALKER BY ALAN PAUL

A DIME A HALF DOZEN • EMULATE DIMEBAG DARRELL’S BLISTERING RIFF-WRITING STYLE AND LEAD-PLAYING TECHNIQUES WITH THIS SIX PACK OF DIME-INSPIRED RIFFS AND LICKS

TEXAS INSTRUMENTS • MODERN, READILY AVAILABLE GEAR THAT’LL HELP YOU NAIL THE SIGNATURE SOUNDS OF SRV, DIMEBAG DARRELL AND BILLY GIBBONS

SOUL TO SOUL • IN THE STUDIO, NO ONE WAS CLOSER TO STEVIE RAY VAUGHAN THAN HIS HANDPICKED PRODUCER/ENGINEER, RICHARD MULLEN. IN THIS EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW FROM 2003, MULLEN DETAILS HIS RELATIONSHIP WITH SRV AND HOW HE CAPTURED THE OTHERWORLDLY GUITAR SOUNDS ON TEXAS FLOOD AND COULDN’T STAND THE WEATHER

EXTRA JIMMIES • JIMMIE VAUGHAN CHOOSES HIS TOP 12 TEXAS BLUES GUITARISTS

Power and Passion • EASTMAN JULIET SOLIDBODIES

Clean Cut • SUPRO ROYALE 1932R 1X12 COMBO

An Appalachian Tale • MARTIN GUITAR D-28 RICH ROBINSON

Buzz Bin Warm Audio Warmdrive

DEEP WATERS • Applying a Jimi Hendrix approach to improvising on “Rollin’ Stone”

GREEN LIGHT • More reflections on the great British blues legend Peter Green

THE BENDS, PART 3 • Finding the melody via alternative string-bending techniques

JAMES MEETS DANNY • How to play “Brown Gatton,” part 1

Performance Notes • HOW TO PLAY THIS MONTH’S SONGS

“ALL MY LIFE” Foo Fighters • As heard on ONE BY ONE

“I JUST WANT TO MAKE LOVE TO YOU” Foghat • As heard on FOGHAT

“JOSIE” Steely Dan • \As heard on AJA

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