Exploring the Diminished Scale with Alex Skolnick By Alex Skolnick The diminished scale is a highly useful resource for adding spice to solos.
Combining Pentatonic Scales to Create Unexpected Phrases By Oli Herbert Combine the minor pentatonic and Hirajoshi scales to create melodic lines that offer more harmonic-melodic variety.
Five Questions with Sleater-Kinney Guitarist Corin Tucker By Brad Angle First guitar, first gig, why now is no time to be silent, and more!
Mastodon's Brent Hinds and Bill Kelliher Talk New Album, 'Emperor of Sand' By Joe Bosso Time seems to be on Mastodon’s side. Together now for 17 years without a single blip in their lineup, the Atlanta-based alt-metal four-piece is still as tight personally as they are musically.
Reigning Blues Champ Gary Clark Jr. Talks New Album, 'Live North America 2016' By Brad Tolinski Back in the early Sixties, the brilliantly eccentric jazz pianist Thelonious Monk created a list of what he thought every musician should know about gigging.
MADD Men: The Minor Add-2 Arpeggio By Jimmy Brown Last month, I offered a guitar adaptation of the theme from The Walking Dead, which is based on a repeating melody built from a minor add-9, or minor add-2, arpeggio.
Navigating the Intricate Seven-String Licks in Periphery's “Flatline” By Mark Holcomb Throughout the course of these columns, my focus has been primarily on the six-string guitar parts I’ve crafted that are featured in the music of both Periphery and my side project, Haunted Shores.
How to Play Like DADGAD Pioneer Davey Graham By Dale Turner A key figure of the early Sixties British folk revival, Davey Graham (1940–2008) was a unique steel-string–wielding hybrid.
Review: Boss Waza Craft CE-2W Chorus Pedal By Chris Gill The Boss CE-2 Chorus and its big brother predecessor the CE-1 (along with the same effect built into the Roland Jazz Chorus amp) defined the sound of chorus during the late Seventies and Eighties.
May 2017 Guitar World Gear and Lesson Videos By Guitar World Staff These videos and audio files are bonus content related tothe May2017 issue ofGuitar World.
