Paul Gilbert is releasing the Christmas album you didn't know you needed By Jackson Maxwell Featuring shred-ified versions of 10 Christmas favorites – plus a couple of holiday-themed originals – 'TWAS will be released November 26
Paul Gilbert: "My slide playing is a risky career move. There have been times when I've tried stuff on stage and people have walked out the door!" By Jonathan Horsley The shred pioneer, melody enthusiast and rock guitar sensei extraordinaire on making his guitar howl for his new album, Werewolves of Portland
Paul Gilbert to sell signed, super-rare Ibanez PGM90HAM signature guitar for Jason Becker fundraiser By Matt Owen The axe, which was made in 1998 and wielded by Gilbert at the Hoshino 90th Anniversary Concert, will be sold with a signed TC Electronic PG signature MojoMojo overdrive pedal
The Neal Morse Band's Eric Gillette counts down his top 5 favorite guitar solos By James Turner With the band's upcoming album Innocence & Danger almost upon us, Gillette takes us through the most memorable, mind-melting solos that have influenced his own playing throughout the years
6 guitar pros on how to prepare your playing for tour By Jason Sidwell Paul Gilbert, Steve Lukather, Marty Friedman, Kirk Fletcher, Steve Morse and Michael Landau on how they get stage-ready
How Paul Gilbert, Vince Gill and Gretchen Menn powered through the pandemic – and what it means to return to the road By Joe Bosso With live music reopening, we talk to three touring pros about life mid-pandemic and how it will feel to see an audience again
TC Electronic announces Paul Gilbert signature MojoMojo overdrive pedal By Sam Roche The signature iteration adds a new Eleven switch, which promises a “massive gain boost for even more drive and attack”
Paul Gilbert unleashes howling slide guitar on funky, fusion-y new song Werewolves of Portland By Richard Bienstock The six-string virtuoso gets wild with “fast guitar riffs, percussive picking and modulating dominant sus4 arpeggios”
Paul Gilbert surprises guitarists with his newfound affinity for 0.50mm-gauge picks By Matt Owen The shred wizard took to Instagram to reveal his new Argument About Pie picks, which sport a lighter-than-usual gauge
Paul Gilbert unleashes blistering new single, A Thunderous Ovation Shook the Columns By Matt Owen The second single from the fusion maestro’s upcoming 16th studio album features an abundance of hypnotic lead licks and tasty pentatonic-based riffs
Paul Gilbert announces 16th solo album, Werewolves of Portland, shares scorching lead single, Argument About Pie By Matt Owen The Ibanez-wielding wizard also revealed that he played every instrument that will be heard on his forthcoming album
Ibanez reveals all-new Paul Gilbert, Paul Waggoner and Martin Miller signature models for 2021 By Matt Owen The new line of signature guitars boasts versatile switching systems, tried and trusted pickups and a new seven-string model
Paul Gilbert sells pink 1987 Ibanez “Ice-Stroyer” guitar to aid former Racer X band mate Juan Alderete By Richard Bienstock The Destroyer/Iceman hybrid went for $16,000 on Reverb
15 of the greatest all-star guitar teachers By Jonathan Horsley From legends of the old-school to the internet era’s pedagogues of polyphonic fingerstyle, these are the players who changed the guitar teaching game
What were Guitar World's first-ever tab transcriptions? By Jeff Kitts #GuitarWorld40: May 1988 marked the debut of tab in Guitar World
JHS Pedals PG-14 review By Chris Gill Paul Gilbert's signature overdrive pedal has an amp-like operation that'll add some complex heat to your sound
Paul Gilbert sheds light on why he uses “really thin” picks and recalls test driving Eddie Van Halen’s guitar By Richard Bienstock “My first thought was, Man, this thing is really hard to play,” he says of Ed’s axe
Paul Gilbert reveals the “really dangerous” trend he sees among YouTube guitarists By Richard Bienstock The master shredder instructs the young’ uns on what you need to do “if you want to have strong '70s vibrato”
Paul Gilbert announces virtual concert featuring a medley of Led Zeppelin, Black Sabbath and the Spice Girls By Richard Bienstock It’s not the first time the guitarist has brought together the unholy trinity of artists
12 mind-blowing guitarists reveal the techniques they struggled to master, and how you can improve your guitar playing faster By Jason Sidwell Joe Bonamassa, Paul Gilbert, Joe Satriani and many more share the lessons they wish they'd learned sooner
