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Why David Gilmour never learned to play this iconic Pink Floyd guitar solo
Gilmour believes his audiences would prefer a “real and happening” solo instead of a carbon copy night-in, night-out
The song that started life as an Eagles track – but ended up as the theme song for an animated film
Plans for a Hotel California sequel were in motion, but the track wouldn’t emerge from the Eagles archive until a few years later
Power up your inner shredder: Gus G shares his ultimate guitar warm-ups
Before every gig, Firewind and Ozzy's virtuoso hones his chops with focused drills for sweeping, slurring, and string jumping. Steal his six essential exercises to level up your own metal technique
The playing advice Glenn Tipton gave Richie Faulkner on his first tour with Judas Priest
Faulkner brought a huge array of influences to the Priest gig but worked to shake them off so he could find his own voice
Rush’s Alex Lifeson was a master of first inversion chords – here are 5 voicings you can use in your playing today
Don't be intimidated by the terminology. First-inversion chords is the fancy name for slash chords and they can add some range and spice to your songwriting
Jared James Nichols teaches you the wild drop D blues stomp he wrote with Tyler Bryant
Learn Hard Wired, a fingerstyle blues-rock riffing masterclass that has groove for days
Joe Satriani pays tribute to Chris Cornell with instrumental cover of Audioslave’s Be Yourself
The virtuoso features on the latest track from King Ultramega, a tribute project for the late Soundgarden frontman
Joe Satriani responds to Cory Wong's controversial statement about what it takes to be an advanced guitarist
Wong recently stirred the pot by saying that guitarists should only call themselves “advanced” if they know every note on the fretboard
“Pretty much everybody in the genre was a Fender guy… I said, ‘I’ve gotta pivot and do something different’”: Joe Bonamassa reveals what prompted him to switch from Strats to Les Pauls – and the one technique he cannot nail
It's a technique that Allan Holdsworth and Eric Johnson are masters at, but the revered blues guitarist has had to pursue a different approach to counter his shredding kryptonite
