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Laura Cox on being a leftie playing right-handed and why she'd take a high-end Epiphone over a cheap Gibson

By Jonathan Horsley

The maverick French hard-rocker talks Burning Bright, chicken pickin’ and why the YouTube comments section is not as terrifying as being onstage for the first time

Jimmy Page’s guitar gear: everything you need to nail the Led Zeppelin legend's sound

By Jonathan Horsley

Looking to emulate that pristine Stairway to Heaven twang? Or perhaps the pounding riff of Immigrant song? We’ve got you covered

Submit your questions for Adam 'Nergal' Darski

By Damian Fanelli

Round up your best and brightest questions and send them our way, people

Stone Sour's Josh Rand on how he changed from bass to guitar by accident and what's next for the band

By Amit Sharma

The hard-rock guitarist gives GW the lowdown on the group's surprise live album Hello, You Bastards: Live in Reno

Joe Bonamassa: "It’s easy to play marginally good blues. It’s very difficult to play great blues"

By Richard Bienstock

The best living blues guitarist - as voted by you - shares soloing advice and the inside scoop on his next album

Periphery's Misha Mansoor, Jake Bowen, Plini and Jakub Zytecki

Misha Mansoor, Jake Bowen, Plini and Jakub Zytecki go deep on gear, technique and the future of djent

By Amit Sharma

It's a tech-metal round table! The Periphery axemen are joined by two of today's leading virtuosos to wax lyrical on all things tech-metal

The 20 best guitar riffs of the decade

By Jonathan Horsley

We’ve got scuzzy blues-rock, skronky indie, a whole bunch of heavy and some funk, too... But was the winner worth the wait?

Watch Andy Gillion and Paul Wardingham unleash a menagerie of other-worldly lead lines in this exclusive playthrough

By Sam Roche

Hiraeth is taken from guitar virtuoso Gillion's debut album Neverafter

Gov't Mule's Warren Haynes: "When I switch to my ’59 Les Paul, there’s something magical there that you just can’t replicate"

By Mark McStea

Warren Haynes dishes on how he's kept Gov't Mule together for 25 years, and offers an interesting take on the regime of self-improvement as a guitarist

Christone 'Kingfish' Ingram: “I can’t be the kid wonder forever”

By Alan Paul

Christone 'Kingfish' Ingram is the future of the blues. Here, he discusses his fiery debut album

Manuel Gardner Fernandes: "I wanted to do something people might not have heard before - and I hope I’ve proved I can play everything live"

By Amit Sharma

The Instagram virtuoso speaks exclusively to GW about those guitar fakery accusations, his gear secrets and how he honed his jaw-dropping technique

Meet Dabin Lee, the DJ pushing boundaries with his genre-splicing guitar playing

By Amit Sharma

The revolutionary EDM producer on how incorporating guitar into his live sets brought a new dimension to his music

The Underground Thieves' Nick Perri on ignoring directives from Eddie Van Halen, and why he's more satisfied with his tone than ever before

By Jeff Kitts

The former Silvertide man discusses his new band, and how he learned to stop worrying and love a simple guitar rig

The 20 best guitar solos of the decade

By Jonathan Horsley

The results are in. This is the best lead playing from 2010-2019, as voted by you

10 things you didn't know about Stevie Ray Vaughan

By Damian Fanelli, Andy Aledort

Think you know everything there is to know about the late, great SRV? Read on!

Tommy Emmanuel: "You don’t have to fill up every millisecond with sound and noises - I let the audience fill in the gaps"

By Jonathan Horsley

The Australian fingerstyle maestro on technique, leaving something to the imagination, and why the story is the most important thing

Scott Stapp guitarist Yiannis Papadopoulos: "When it’s time for the solo, I give my best to play things that justify the hours I put into the guitar"

By John Katic

The guitar virtuoso on why The Space Between the Shadows is Stapp's best album yet

Lynyrd Skynyrd's Gary Rossington shares the story behind Free Bird

By Guitar World Staff

Learn how the most requested song in live music was created

Rig tour: Caleb Miller reveals the gear behind King Calaway’s infectious country hits

By Sam Roche

The Ohio-born guitarist takes us through the guitars, amps and pedals that fuel his vocal playing style

Jimmy Eat World's Jim Adkins: "I used to study classical and jazz... then I was suddenly sleeping on floors and playing punk-rock"

By Amit Sharma

The founding frontman shares wisdom gained from a career spanning nearly three decades - and explains why he can't tear himself away from heavy-gauge strings