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The Beatles: guitar by guitar - a guide to the models that made music history

By Tony Bacon

The Beatles revolutionised music and made the guitar the world's most popular instrument. On the 50th anniversary of their final album, we trace the models that made the magic…

The Last of Us Part II gamers are using its virtual guitar to play songs by the Beatles, Metallica and more

By Richard Bienstock

Check out Here Comes the Sun, Nothing Else Matters and more

Paul McCartney's 6 best guitar solos with The Beatles

By Damian Fanelli

Though he was technically their bassist, Paul McCartney was responsible for many fine six-string moments in The Beatles catalog

The Beatles' break-up in 1970 yielded some of its members' best work - and these 9 albums prove it

By Damian Fanelli

The year saw the collapse of the world's most commercially successful band of all time. But it also saw the genesis of its members' solo careers...

The best 12-string guitar songs of all time

By Josh Hart and Damian Fanelli

31 of the greatest moments of 12-string shimmer in guitar's storied history

The inside story of The Beatles' turbulent break-up - and what came next

By Alan di Perna

50 years on, we dig deep into the unraveling of the most commercially successful band of all time, and the subsequent solo careers of John Lennon, Paul McCartney and George Harrison

Watch Lars Ulrich’s sons play “insane, crazy, garage-rock version” of The Beatles' Eleanor Rigby

By Richard Bienstock

“You know what, boys? You done me proud,” the Metallica drummer says

How to borrow chords from a parallel minor key and lend your songs a bittersweet edge

By Jimmy Brown

Learn a songwriting trick used by everyone from Eric Clapton to The Beatles

Dave Mustaine and daughter Electra play The Beatles’ Come Together while in quarantine

By Richard Bienstock

The Mustaines come together right now – alone

Billy Sheehan names 5 of his favorite bass albums

By Bass Player Staff

Sheehan is one of the world’s most accomplished bassists - so we can all learn from the five albums that influenced him

Al Di Meola offers a moving tribute to The Beatles with Across The Universe

By Jackson Maxwell

Sponsored The jazz-fusion guitar legend is back with another stunningly eclectic homage to the Fab Four

The rock group MC5 (L-R Dennis "Machine Gun" Thompson, Wayne Kramer, Fred "Sonic" Smith and Rob Tyner) perform live in 1969 in Mount Clemens, Michigan

The 20 heaviest songs before Black Sabbath

By Richard Bienstock

Behold, gentle reader, a sizzlin’ slew of down and dirty tracks that helped forge heavy metal

The Analogues' Bart van Poppel: "A lot of Paul McCartney’s bass thinking came from him starting out as a guitar player"

By Amit Sharma

The tonally authentic Beatles tribute band's bass player, producer and musical director serves up a McCartney masterclass…

A rare John Lennon and George Harrison-owned fretless guitar just surfaced - and it's worth over $500,000

By Jackson Maxwell

The oddball electric popped up on a recent episode of the BBC's Antiques Roadshow

Jazz musician Al Di Meola performs onstage during the 'Past, Present and Future' tour at The Canyon on September 20, 2019 in Agoura Hills, California

Al Di Meola on The Beatles: "It's surprising that they had the guts to play those kind of chords"

By Joshua M. Miller

The jazz-fusion great talks Across the Universe, his latest tribute to the Fab Four

Fender George Harrison 'Rocky' Stratocaster

NAMM 2020: Fender unveils tripped-out replica of George Harrison’s ‘Rocky’ Stratocaster

By Michael Astley-Brown

Custom Shop recreates Beatle’s hand-painted Magical Mystery Tour guitar

The story behind Paul McCartney's 1963 Höfner 500/1 violin bass

By E.E. Bradman

How a humble instrument hanging from "a little shop in the center of town" became the most iconic bass guitar of all time

The 10 best slow guitar solos

By Tony Grassi

Examine some of rock guitar’s greatest slow burns

Watch John Lennon, Eric Clapton and Keith Richards play the Beatles' Yer Blues

By Damian Fanelli

John Lennon embraced his inner rock 'n' roller on his first two non-Beatles live performances

Explore John Lennon's acoustic guitar technique with the Beatles

By Dale Turner

Lennon - wielding his Gibson J-160E or Martin D28 - is the man behind many Beatles acoustic classics. Look at what makes them tick