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“Ever since seeing Kiki Wong play it at Lollapalooza we want one bad”: My pick of the best new guitar gear launched this...

Big new drops from Martin, MXR, Fender and more

"You’ll be making your first songs in no time": 7 steps to record your guitar in GarageBand

From project setup to bouncing tracks, a 20-year recording pro shows beginners how to record electric guitar in GarageBand and get studio-quality tones

My pick of the best guitar gear launched this week: a meet and greet with Billy Gibbons, the modeler we've all been wait...

Big new drops from Gibson, IK Multimedia, ESP and Ibanez headline this week's roundup

Eastwood debuts the Micawber, a Keith Richards-inspired Tele-type factory-fitted with five strings

The Rolling Stones guitarist famously deems the sixth string unnecessary when churning out open G riffs. Eastwood has built the Micawber with that in mind

“There’s absolutely no doubt this is dream distortion pedal material. But at $415, it’d be hard to justify”: My pick of...

An insanely affordable new Gretsch and a pedal called Jimothy headline the round-up this week

Fender honors George Harrison’s legendary Beatles Bass VI with Custom Shop reissue: “It played a defining role in some o...

Harrison famously wielded the 1967 Bass VI in the promotional video for Hey Jude

My pick of the best guitar gear launched this week: holy grail tube tones, Sleep Token’s debut signature collab and a gu...

All the big new drops from PRS Guitars, Charvel, Jackson, Gibson, Friedman Amplification and much more

“I got it for 800 bucks, and it became an important guitar. I took it over to Jake Kiszka’s house – he whipped out a cas...

Turpin’s 1960s Gibson B-25 is one of the best 12-strings for recording – and his old pal Jake Kiszka has one just like it

“For under $600 it does something quite special – it opens up a new sound-world”: Gretsch Electromatic CVT Baritone revi...

Gretsch’s Electromatic range offers plenty for under a grand including this compelling short-scale baritone

“Anything that sounds remotely like a Tele is that Esquire. It’s my impression of Keith Richards”: Steve Lukather played...

This single-pickup instrument from the early ’50s has made musical history in the hands of the Toto icon and is a rare unconverted example

Two essential G chord shapes: when to use each finger position and why

You'll spend a lot of time playing this chord – thankfully, there are multiple ways to do it, and each has a distinct purpose

"The only limiting factor here for any style of playing is technique": Harley Benton ST-62HA review

Harley Benton's budget relic S-type delivers supreme playability and classic tones, but what about that finish?

Country icon Dolly Parton wrote over 3,000 songs, but her trademark ‘thumb and flick’ playing style is essential learnin...

The late music icon had a distinctive approach to country rhythm, using alternating bassline picking and bluegrass soloing techniques

Feel is more important than accuracy. Just ask Kim Thayil, Alex Lifeson and Jimmy Page

Sofia Victoria on how imperfect vibrato, wrong notes and open string noise can add substantial character to conventional soloing

Switching guitar chords is one of the hardest parts of learning. This exercise will help you master changing chords fast...

Beginner guitarists, this is your fast track to nailing those chord changes in time with the music

“Opportunities to play museum-grade instruments in all their glory are few and far between. Couple that with Denmark Str...

Stellar guitarists Chris Buck (Cardinal Black) and Chris Turpin (Mirador) will be playing Holy Grail electric guitars, loud and live, at the upcoming Legendary Guitars event in Lon...

Carbon fiber guitar's smart RGB lights teach you how to play

“I was a session guitarist for a bit, which is unbelievable because I can’t read music. I used to pretend to flip the mu...

His most prized Gibson was made for Jimmy Page and contains an Angus Young pickup. He knows the difference between opening for Metallica and Iron Maiden. He knows kids hate AI. And...

You can finally become a six-string god this Labor Day as Guitar Tricks slashes an annual guitar lessons subscription to...

This epic Labor Day promotion will see you master classic riffs from the likes of AC/DC, ZZ Top, The Rolling Stones, Lynyrd Skynyrd and many more

Manuel Gardner Fernandes breaks down the 5 techniques that define his sound

Manuel presents his percussive strumming, tapped harmonics, selective picking, and Hetfield-inspired downpicking approaches

“If I had a perfect Strat, I’d take off a volume and a tone knob – because I’m a dreadful man – just to make it like a T...

The Blur guitarist reflects on his “wooden wife” –and the charms of the Tele’s weird headstock

My pick of the best guitar gear launched this week – including an all-new species of pedal

All the big new drops from Epiphone, Death By Audio, Gretsch, Charvel, and much more

“It's an amp for when you feel the need to give the FOH sound engineer a nervous breakdown”: My pick of the best new gui...

New releases from Marshall, Harley Benton, Gibson and more…

“Those records made me think the guitar could be as good as jazz. Up until then, the electric guitar was a stupid instru...

Piano and saxophone were his first loves. The guitar came much later