Sam Roche
Sam was Staff Writer at GuitarWorld.com from 2019 to 2023, and also created content for Total Guitar, Guitarist and Guitar Player. He has well over 15 years of guitar playing under his belt, as well as a degree in Music Technology (Mixing and Mastering). He's a metalhead through and through, but has a thorough appreciation for all genres of music. In his spare time, Sam creates point-of-view guitar lesson videos on YouTube under the name Sightline Guitar.
Latest articles by Sam Roche

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Madi Danger says she and her husband, Jay Aspen, were “almost more excited” to receive the Explorers than to get married

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Founded by The Tone King and Phillip McKnight, The Badlands Guitar Company has announced its first electric guitar, the eye-popping GX1

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The Big F's Vice President of Products says “most of the innovation and the future of amplification” lies in the digital realm

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In a truly Herculean undertaking, Greg Desmurs plays back-to-back tracks spanning the Swedish extreme metal outfit's entire discography without taking a single break

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The guitarist talks disrupting conventional approaches to recording in the early '70s in a new interview with Total Guitar

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Vai played the mighty unusual guitar during the video shoot for the 1986 David Lee Roth single, but it was stolen during tour rehearsals shortly afterwards

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The Australian acoustic maestro honored the late guitar legend during his recent set at Kentucky's Lexington Opera House

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Killer six-string tracks to get the year started by Black Stone Cherry, Enter Shikari, Sleep Token, Etta Marcus, Daughter, The Hold Steady, H.C. McEntire and more

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The Queen guitarist praised “one of the greatest guitar geniuses the world has ever seen” in a heartfelt video on social media – and named the Beck song he considers “possibly the most beautiful bit of guitar music ever recorded”

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YouTuber Bradley Hall is at it again, picking apart classic guitar tracks and stitching them back together to surprisingly successful effect

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Shows recorded at New York's Mudd Club and Munich's Olympiahalle will feature on the sprawling new release, which includes an essay by Steve Vai

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The Between the Buried and Me man adds a hardtail model to his lineup of six-strings, Holcomb's SE gets new modeling amp-friendly pickups and a fresh colorway, and Myers' signature now sports an updated scale length

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Limited to 300 units worldwide, the six-string's eye-catching finish is inspired by fishing trips the guitarist took with her father as a child

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The punk rock icon has discussed his 19th album, the Andrew Watt-produced Every Loser, which features guest appearances from Josh Klinghoffer, Chad Smith and the late Taylor Hawkins

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Thomas Zwijsen gave the acoustic treatment to Maiden's latest album, Senjutsu, last year. Now, he dives deeper into the band's catalog

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Local Jacksonville guitarist Paul Wane melted thousands of faces with his stars-and-stripes-themed Telecaster at the TIAA Bank Field on Saturday night

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Designed by Floyd Rose, the Star Trek-inspired axe was initially debuted at NAMM in 1986, and was subsequently put on display at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts

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The metal icons have become the fifth music act to be featured in a limited-edition run of Royal Mail stamps, after the Beatles, Pink Floyd, Queen and the Rolling Stones

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Bandmate Sister Bliss confirms the frontman and guitarist died “peacefully in his sleep” at his South London home on Friday night

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Comprising six models in total, the drop also offers single and dual humbucker pickup configurations

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The band's frontman was tight-lipped when recently asked by Eddie Trunk about future live shows and a followup to 2020's Power Up
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“Cain should not be capitalising on Journey’s brand to promote his personal political or religious agenda to the detriment of the band,” the letter reads

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The easy-to-install device, developed in collaboration with Jake Cinninger of Umphrey's McGee, fits a number of vibratos, and offers a different feel to a bar

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After getting down to business, the heartthrob likes to sit on the end of the bed “with a little gut hanging over”, jamming on a six-string

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Jake lopped off the end of one of Sam's digits with a jack-knife while they played in the backyard, but as it turns out, he did him an unlikely favor
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