This Is the Main Difference Between Good and Bad Guitars, Paul Reed Smith Reveals
“The guitar is either shutting down a string or allowing it to ring.”
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“The guitar is either shutting down a string or allowing it to ring.”
Read MoreThe idea of a reformed Pantera goes a long way back.
Read MoreAlthough one of the most technically proficient guitar players out there, Marty Friedman points out that the pursuit of good
Read MoreMetallica and Infectious Grooves seem to be completely different beasts with their own sets of challenges.
Read MoreGibson brings exact replicas of Jimmy Page’s 1969 EDS-1275 that were done using the company’s “groundbreaking 3D scanning technology.”
Read MoreThe session bassist legend explains what he loves about this line of work, despite all the supposed challenges that he faces.
Read MoreGene Simmons reveals that Ace Frehley wasn’t happy about this decision.
Read MoreItalian fingerpicking virtuoso points out how important it is to listen to different musical styles and blend them in your own unique way.
Read MoreWhat do Lars, James, and Kirk think of Robert Trujillo working outside of Metallica?(SPOILER: They’re cool with it.)
Read MoreWhat are the best blues machines? Here’s what Joe Bonamassa had to say about that
Read MoreTestament’s Steve Di Giorgio looks back on how he got into Ibanez
Read More“He was being sort of egocentric in what he was doing.”
Read More“We don’t have to be so uptight about everything being perfect”
Read More“I do try to keep everything in tune for the people – they wait a long time for the shows, they pay a lot of money, and I just want to give them the best show possible.”
Read MoreEx-Iron Maiden guitarist Dennis Stratton recalls Rod Smallwood’s reaction to his ideas for “Phantom of the Opera”
Read MoreCoverdale “could sing a kiddie song and make it sound like a rock song because of his delivery and his voice,” says Adrian Vandenberg
Read More“First of all, it’s in his hands. He could play anything, and it would sound like Eddie Van Halen.”
Read MoreHerman Li looks back on how being featured in Guitar Hero affected Dragonforce’s success
Read MoreWhat will we see from Marshall in the near future?Here’s what the company’s new CEO says.
Read More“It’s a trend,” Albini added. “I don’t really have an opinion about it.”
Read More“You don’t need to spend a lot of time finding the right wood for the fretboard or the right pickup combination”
Read MoreMetal virtuoso Teemu Mantysaari shares some details on what it’s like to share guitar duties with Dave Mustaine in Megadeth
Read MoreAccording to Mark Bowen and Lee Kiernan of the IDLES, modelers just aren’t good enough
Read MoreThe guitar sound for Billy Idol’s “Rebel Yell” was inspired by Brian May, Steve Stevens recalls
Read More“There’s no right or wrong, but if you have something you like, that’s what you use”
Read More“I don’t feel like I’ve sacrificed sound quality in any way,” Bumblefoot said
Read More“If you coat the whole guitar with GE clear silicone caulk, it’s not going to vibrate very well, but the internet says it doesn’t matter”
Read MoreJeff “Skunk” Baxter recalls getting in trouble with his boss for trading guitars with pre-fame Jimi Hendrix
Read MoreSteve Hackett reflects on how Genesis were influenced by King Crimson back in the day.
Read MoreAs it turns out, John 5 doesn’t use high-gain amp settings
Read More“I own a lot of different distortion pedals, and I bring out a different one for every tour”
Read MoreMick Mars reflects on his struggle with ankylosing spondylitis and debut solo record “The Other side of Mars”
Read More“New players rarely venture into deep, rich, exotic, sort of unconditioned melodic and harmonic atmospheres.”
Read MoreNow, that’s something that every live band should be doing
Read MoreGibson and Jimmy Page announce signature EDS-1275 guitar with more on the way
Read More“We need to separate content creators from real musicians, let’s say.”
Read More“I get to sit in the teacher’s chair, which is generous of the student,” said PAUL GILBERT, one of the finest guitar virtuosos out there
Read More“If you bend the strings, they tend to fret out. So you have to have the action a little bit higher than I like it.”
Read MoreGuitarist Mike Keneally looks back on what Frank Zappa was like
Read Morecoverdale “could sing a kiddie song and make it sound like a rock song because of his delivery and his voice,” says Adrian Vandenberg
Read MoreHow do you end up writing a 17-minute-long prog metal masterpiece? Misha Mansoor explains
Read More“There was no secret sauce or something to being Eddie Van Halen”
Read More“I’d play with him, just guitars and bass, which sounds weird – but that was how we got it so tight”
Read More“I just winged it, actually,” Mick Mars said while recalling his classic Motley Crue solo
Read MoreAccording to Steve Vai, the usual Marshall sound isn’t something that he was ever into. Although both Marshall and Steve
Read More“There’s a lot of really good artists from the ’80s – they just weren’t allowed to really do their craft.”
Read MoreAs it turns out, “Under Pressure” was supposed to sound heavier
Read MoreHumility is very important if you want to be good at improvisation, explains session guitar legend Mike Keneally
Read MoreEpiphone release Adam Jones’s signature Silverburst Les Paul. And yes, it has the Gibson-style headstock
Read More“Ibanez was considering discontinuing it”
Read MoreMarty Friedman clarifies comments from a recently published article: “Where does this stuff come from?”
Read More“This guitar has been a long time coming,” Lzzy Hale said about her new Kramer guitar
Read More“It’s one of the most unnatural riffs to play you could possibly imagine”
Read More“I can see there’s a thousand of Yngwies, but there’s only one Uli Jon Roth”
Read More“I don’t trust a light guitar”
Read More“Sometimes, we do leave mistakes because the mistakes are cool. We like them.”
Read More“Blues, I think, is one of the most important things you can learn, actually,” Matteo Mancuso said.
Read MoreGibson adds ergonomic features and some other traits to their otherwise stripped-down Les Paul Studio model. Here’s what that looks like
Read More“You can have rock, you can have thunder, but then you can also have delicate things too.”
Read More“Eddie probably got some ideas from me, just like I got ideas from other guitar players.”
Read More“He wanted to play it better, play it better, play it better”
Read MoreKerry King looks back on Jeff Hanneman’s final days in Slayer.
Read MoreNeural DSP’s Archetype: Gojira X is a very potent plug-in
Read More“He didn’t leave a lot of room for you to create. That wasn’t the idea.”
Read More“You’re getting on stage with Randy, Ozzy, and Tommy Aldridge – I can’t think of a better combination of musicians to go on stage with.”
Read More“It’s the one piece of rack-mount where I’ve found that the quality of the signal that goes through it is the best that I’ve heard.”
Read More“He was constructively always doing these things that guitars were forbidden from doing, or no one had tried it out”
Read More“There is a great romance in owning vintage, but I just don’t resonate with it”
Read More“We need guitar music that makes those people feel something. It’s the responsibility of guitarists to bring something to solos that will achieve that.”
Read More“Whatever it is, you don’t need too many,” explained Mark Knopfler
Read More“That’s Eddie’s technique. You’re not allowed to play it on the tour – or else.”
Read More“What made Van Halen really super special was the interaction”
Read MoreRudy Sarzo reflects on his work with Whitesnake/David Coverdale
Read MoreAlex Lifeson names the most challenging RUSH song
Read MoreThe EVH SA-126 has officially been announced on Eddie Van Halen’s birthday. We’ll wait and see if the guitar lives up to its hype
Read More“I can’t stop people from doing that.”
Read MoreScott Henderson explains how much he practices nowadays
Read More“Joe was different because he took a British blues approach but didn’t just copy it”
Read More“I just learned how to visualize the fretboard in my head,” Tal Wilkenfeld recalled
Read More“I wish it was just one guitar with one set of strings and one tuning.”
Read MoreDavid Ellefson recalls how Megadeth managed to turn things around in the late 1980s.
Read More“I wasn’t really thinking so much at the time”
Read More“He should be spreading a more positive, encouraging message, encouraging people to write good guitar solos, no matter what they are.”
Read MoreRUSH legend Alex Lifeson explains why he chose Gibson over Fender guitars
Read More“The thing is, even though it’s the same type of wood, or same exact type of wood, same exact hardware, they all sound different because wood is wood.”
Read More“One of Eddie’s greatest joys was to play music with his son”
Read MoreJoe Satriani recalls one important thing he learned from legendary jazz pianist Lennie Tristano
Read More“He can play as fast as the fastest player that I’ve ever heard”
Read MoreTal Wilkenfeld remembers Jeff Beck as a “generous, loving, open musician.”
Read MoreGibson amps are back! Here are their two new models!
Read MoreYou can learn Eddie Van Halen’s guitar parts note-for-note, but it still won’t be the same, Joe Satriani explains. Here’s why
Read More“Says the man with a devil painted on his head!”
Read More“When Kirk bought the Peter Green guitar, some of the purists were like, ‘I can’t believe, that guitar should be playing blues.'”
Read More“He is spiritual. He meditates. He does yoga. He’s a vegetarian. Boom!”
Read More“I’m not a progressive guitar player who needs eight minutes or something like that”
Read More“You would never catch a metal guy listening to Beyonce because his friends would make fun of him,” says Scott Henderson
Read More“If it’s too good to be true, ask questions.”
Read MoreAre digital amps as good as tube-driven amps? Here’s what Joe Satriani has to say about that
Read More“He just put it together in a really cool package and really composed great solos that are very memorable.”
Read MoreIbanez has big plans for 2024 and the upcoming NAMM Show
Read More“It was dark, it was fast, it was unhinged,” Ellefson recalled
Read More“The SA-126 is way beyond a typical semi-hollow,” said Wolf Van Halen
Read More“He was just on the fast track to greatness,” Joe Satriani said about young Steve Vai
Read More“It almost felt unnecessary – it just moves so much air, even the lower-wattage stuff”
Read MoreKim Thayil reflects on Soundgarden’s early days and the uniqueness of the Seattle scene in the 1980s
Read MoreHow often do you change your strings? Here’s what bass legend Leland Sklar has to say about that
Read More“No offense to the lead singers out there, we don’t need a lead singer!”
Read More“I know it’s not cool to a lot of people to be enjoying the music as much as I do on stage, but I think it comes across most of them, it softens them up”
Read More“You could tell it was coming from this one individual who had created this whole new world of guitar playing”
Read More“With each record, I have to feel like we’ve opened some new doors up, even at the risk of putting some people off,” John Baizley of Baroness explains
Read More“He’s showed us what we play doesn’t always have to be perfectly time-coded or on the grid”
Read MoreWe never thought Joe would be into this pedal…
Read MoreNeural DSP steps up their vintage-style game with the new plugin, done in collaboration with Morgan
Read More“I want all the stuff that I go through as a human to come through my art”
Read More“If you haven’t got that, you could be good. You can learn a lot of stuff, but you’re never going to be great”
Read More“That’s why we love those records, they have the feel,” Andy Timmons explains
Read More“That’s gonna take me, I bet, three months of 45 minutes a day, working with a metronome, to work that into my bag of tricks”
Read MoreKim Thayil of Soundgarden recalls how he started playing Guild Guitars in the first place
Read MoreWe interviewed the man who got recognition from Guinness World Records for his Metallica tattoos
Read More“That incendiary thing that he had – that’s all in his soul”
Read MoreAmid the recent trend of compact amp sim pedals, Kemper brings a potent little beast called Profiler Player
Read MoreMegadeth frontman Dave Mustaine explains all the financial hardships bands are facing on tours.
Read More“I think people have realized that we’re sticking around, and this is who we are.”
Read More“I try to push beyond them a little bit”
Read MoreSome of this year’s Marshall amps seem to be flawed
Read More“They are not going to remember guitar solos,” said Kirk Hammett about the majority of the music listeners.
Read MoreHere are the best-selling guitar pedals and amps in 2023 over at reverb.com
Read More“You can play more than just the root”
Read More“Look how many people are trying to imitate Jimi after all these years. It doesn’t work”
Read MoreAre offset guitars metal enough?
Read MoreSoundgarden guitarist Kim Thayil discussed his approach to guitar playing and why he prefers not rely on established fretboard patterns
Read MoreKenny Wayne Shepherd looks back on opening for Van Halen in 1998 and 2015
Read More“There’s something about that combination of Firebird with P-90s that is really unique and special”
Read MoreLooking at this report by reverb.com, cheaper guitars seem to be dominating the lists of best-selling in 2023
Read More“I like it a bit chaotic”
Read More“I got one for, like, 30 bucks”
Read More“I was like, ‘I will never pay $15,000 for a guitar, are you crazy?'”
Read MoreHere’s something interesting from Graph Tech Guitar Labs
Read MoreJoe Bonamassa shares four essential guitar solos that every guitarist should know how to play
Read More‘Ice Ice Baby,’ it still makes me smile,” Brian May said.
Read More“Jamming is great, but it can’t maintain the attention span of your audience if that’s all you do”
Read MoreWhat do you know about Pat Metheny’s Roland GR-303 guitar controller and GR-300 analog synth?
Read More“In the first 30 months of Twisted Sister’s existence, which is April ’73 to September ’75 – that’s 30 months – we played 3450 45-minute shows.”
Read More“I went over to the grand piano and said, ‘Don’t kill me.'”
Read More“I kept saying, ‘Guys, I don’t know these songs, so I’m going to be staring at you.'”
Read MoreTim Henson explains how one of Polyphia’s EPs was inspired by a Justin Bieber song
Read MoreWolfgang Van Halen opens up on using the legendary Frankenstrat guitar on his latest album
Read More“I can’t even believe I’d still been doing this, this long”
Read MoreBOSS steps up the amp simulator game with their new compact IR-2 pedal. Oh, and it’s also an audio interface
Read MoreSounds like a fun show
Read More“I had recently bought a reverb pedal, and I showed it to Lana in the studio, and she was like, ‘Oh, we need that.'”
Read More“So that’s the next thing when you’re improvising: don’t think about yourself. Just let the music flow through you”
Read More“Here’s the truth, man: before you’re The Beatles, you’d better be better than the band next door. Very simple.”
Read More“It’s a beautiful thing in regard to all those kids that didn’t get to see the magic that the four of them created.”
Read MoreWill we have to wait another 13 years for a new Tool album?
Read More“He enjoyed not having to work so hard and just be a member.”
Read MoreWhat do you know about Pat Metheny’s 42-string instrument, known as the Pikasso guitar? (Yes, with a “K”)
Read More“I went through the mental torture of playing ‘Smoke on the Water’ and having my guitar not sound like Ritchie Blackmore’s”
Read More“I de-Grateful-Dead-ed myself,” recalled Jay Jay French.
Read More“There are certain guys that God gave a little extra to, and he was one.”
Read More“Thank God they got Bob [Rock] to do ‘The Black Album.'”
Read More“It’s the only thing you can do to make any money – sell t-shirts. So you are a traveling t-shirt salesman.”
Read MoreThe recent statements aren’t 100% clear. So, is Kiko still a member of Megadeth or not?
Read MoreWill your guitar’s finish affect the tone? Do old guitars really sound different? Here’s what Tom Murphy has to say about that
Read MoreWe’re not sure if any bass lessons took place, but RUSH had a lot to learn from KISS back in 1974.
Read More“This is exactly what you shouldn’t do because if you do pick every note, it will never sound that smooth”
Read More“Music is music, people are people, like what you like, don’t like what you don’t like.”
Read MoreWhat’s the future of rock music?
Read More“Because in Megadeth, after a while, you make so many records the real challenge was to not repeat yourself.”
Read More“It’s horrible seeing people judge your character like that, especially when it’s so far away from who you are and what you are.”
Read More“So, as a teacher, it was important just to give them the information but not to influence them in any way – to let them interpret it the way they want. And that’s what Kirk did.”
Read More“These kids have no idea. They’re used to these little Mickey Mouse sounds.”
Read More“He would have moments that would be surpassing – because he was Jimi Hendrix.”
Read More“Musicians still – last time I checked – needed to pay their bills, and they’re only going up.”
Read MoreSo, what was John 5’s approach to session work when he was young? He did everything at half the price!
Read More“Even I started to be a little concerned about this certain sameness of the procedure that I would take to make records,” producer Tom Werman recalled.
Read More“There’s something about the Ibanez that I am really used to, and I prefer the evenness of it that’s not there on the Gibson.”
Read MoreBOSS has a new pedal in their 200 Series, and it’s way more exciting than we expected
Read MoreIt seems like everyone expected him to do a blues-oriented album. But Mick Mars’ first solo single was completely different. Here’s why.
Read MoreSlash is no longer a Marshall artist.
Read More“The fact that they’re not in the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame is criminal.”
Read MoreRik Emmett recalls Van Halen’s subpar performance, calling it “not necessarily one of their better moments”
Read More“I heard the Scissor Sisters’ version, the disco thing. So I said, ‘Okay, yeah, I can play that, I guess.'”
Read More“With the Fractals, it’s identical across the board”
Read MoreA certain producer told Mick Mars that his guitar “sounds too much like a guitar”
Read MoreDave Friedman, the man behind Friedman amps, also discusses the tonewood and its impact on the sound of electric guitars
Read More“We went so far, and then more, to make sure that we’re serving the music,” recalls Kirk Hammett about Metallica’s early days.
Read More“You don’t read Rolling Stone because you want to be educated about music,” said Uli Jon Roth.
Read MoreIs glam metal making a comeback?Here’s what Dokken axeman Jon Levin has to say about that
Read More“Don’t follow the rulebook, and never listen to the people online, because they don’t know anything.”
Read More“It’s all just completely fabulous stuff that people write because they want to ascribe some sort of magic to the process.”
Read More“I’m not a traditional blues player by any standard – my avenue, my gateway to the blues was through London, not Mississippi or Chicago.”
Read MoreMick Mars looks back on his friendship with Eddie Van Halen
Read More“He would party and do what he wanted, have a good time, and then come in and try to grind it out.”
Read More“Eddie was a fabulous guitarist, as is Alex”
Read More“You don’t need a giant Marshall full-stack.”
Read MoreMachine Head’s Robb Flynn recalls how the band hung out with Ian Gillan back in the late 1990s
Read More“I didn’t like the way that solo was. It was too intense.”
Read MoreStarting his YouTube channel some years ago, Marty Schwartz has become so popular among beginners who are just starting out
Read MoreDave Kilminster prefers T-style guitar over Strats and LPs. Here’s why
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