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“I use my pick-hand index finger in a Jimi Hendrix-like way”: Jared James Nichols explains how to use open strings and Drop D tuning to bulk-up your blues fingerstyle

Park your electric guitar in Drop D. Throw your pick in the trash. It's time for some muscular fingerstyle with the purveyor of blues power himself

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“The Super Overdrive never tasted so good”: John 5’s entire pedalboard has been recreated in cake form for his birthday – and it gives a new meaning to ‘tasty tone’

The only thing better than a Boss DD-8 is a Boss DD-8 you can eat

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“Picking up a guitar when you’ve never held one before… That was the most frightened I’ve been in my work life”: Jeremy Allen White had never played guitar until he was hired to play Bruce Springsteen – and it was the scariest challenge of his career

White has previously played a pro wrestler and an award-winning chef – but they were nothing compared to his latest role as the Boss in the new Springsteen biopic

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“I had to sell my phone to buy my first guitar because my parents wouldn’t let me get one! It was a very, very bad acoustic – a knock-off Gibson called Givson”: How Bloodywood went from dodgy guitars and YouTube covers to India's biggest metal band

Determined to retain folk roots in his heavy output, he talks manifesting their Babymetal collab, inexperienced luthiers, a knock-off Strat with a strangely quiet third string, and how to choose a modeler now they’re all as good as each other

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“I went up to Sam after the show and said, ‘You're unbelievable. I’ve got this idea for a band.’ He looked at me and said, ‘I’m in. Let's do it’”: Fred Durst pays tribute to Sam Rivers – and explains why Limp Bizkit couldn't have happened without him

Durst looks back on his first meeting with the late bass icon – who helped make Limp Bizkit a reality

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“We hit it off right away. He saw me playing my '63 P-Bass and said, ‘That's a Bootsy bass, right?’” How a chance meeting between Pino Palladino and D’Angelo helped create the sound of the late neo-soul legend's Voodoo album

The A-list bassist sheds some light on the late R&B legend's beguiling behind-the-beat hip-hop grooves

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“I was pissed off at Steve Thompson – he was sitting on the chair there, razzing me. So I said, ‘Let me just practice it once.’ He rolled it, and I was just in his face”: How Frank Hannon accidentally wrote one of Tesla’s most iconic guitar solos

Wielding a Gibson EDS-1275, Hannon helped define this quintessentially ’80s power ballad with a very last-minute solo

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“I've done so many things DIY with the Coheed comics and toys. Why should guitars be any different?” Coheed and Cambria on going it alone to make a signature guitar, channeling Joe Walsh –and the prospect of their swan song

The Father of Make Believe is another immersive long-form trip into the world of Coheed and Cambria’s fictional world. Claudio Sanchez and Travis Stever tell us what we're in for when we get there

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“One of the most visionary and influential bassists in the history of our instrument”: Anthony Jackson, low-end legend who pioneered the concept of the modern six-string bass, dies aged 73

Al Di Meola has led the tributes to a session icon who took the instrument to new frontiers

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This iconic jazz progression was played by countless guitar legends – and it can help you learn the chord secrets of Joe Pass, Barney Kessel and Wes Montgomery

Want to add sophistication to your chords? Master this essential chord progression as played by 5 guitar legends

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“I was just talking to Paul Reed Smith – and I don’t know if I should be telling you this – but he’s made a new guitar that’s a revolution”: John McLaughlin teases unreleased PRS that he calls the mysterious ‘Yellow Guitar’

The jazz legend has been testing one of two prototypes, and both big names have been blown away...

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“A Gretsch guitar for just $189?! Yes please… the no-nonsense, raw-and-raucous Electromatic and Streamliner Jets are here – and they are beautiful”: All the new guitar gear that caught my eye this week, from digital oil-can echo to Fender’s new US range

We've got Fender electrics and basses hot out of Cali, a state-of-the-art "vintage" delay pedal, cheap acoustics, expensive acoustics, and maybe the headphones monitoring tech you've been waiting for...

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"Sam Rivers wasn’t just our bass player – he was pure magic…" Limp Bizkit bassist Sam Rivers has died, aged 48

Nu metal bassist Sam Rivers has died, Limp Bizkit confirm

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“It’s nasty and greasy and oozing funk. It’s a masterclass in funk bass”: Robert Wilson had his step-out performance on this Gap Band classic, which features two bass parts, both cut on a flatwound-strung P-Bass

The main riff is likely familiar to many via Victor Wooten’s song Bass Tribute

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“He was standing two feet from me. When he was done, he said, ‘Well, what do you think?’ And I said, ‘I want to cry’”: How this bluesman linked up with Eric Clapton – and got him to play a solo on his album

They’ve forged a close friendship over the years, but getting Slowhand to play an “insane” solo on his record wasn’t easy

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“The string mute had disintegrated, so I stuck a piece of scouring pad to whatever was left”: How Squarepusher found a signature sound with a 1979 Rickenbacker bass, a DIY string mute and some heavy EQ

Iambic 5 Poetry features two separate bass tracks: the up-front melodic line, and another hidden low in the mix

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“Ritchie Blackmore was playing licks to sound check. Andy started answering him. Their conversation with guitars was enough to impress Ritchie”: Ted Turner on eating biscuits with John Lennon and how Deep Purple gave Wishbone Ash their big break

The Les Paul slinger shares the secret behind his twin-guitar sound with Andy Powell, why he quit the band not once but twice, and working as a session player on John Lennon’s Imagine

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"A Bluesbreaker and a King of Tone walk into a bar… and I went home with both of them": Warm Audio Throne of Tone pedal review

Could this be the finest drive and boost pedal of the year?

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“I knew how bummed out Neil was. He wasn’t feeling like making music. He was really sick”: How Willie Nelson’s son convinced Neil Young to get back on the road

Micah Nelson recently related how he came up with the idea to form the Chrome Hearts, Young's new band, amid a trying time for the Godfather of Grunge

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“Ozzy would say, ‘No. This isn’t Frank Zappa, this is Ozzy Osbourne. Go back and write me something else’”: Jake E. Lee revisits Badlands, the album the music industry doesn't want you to hear

Why can't we buy Badlands' self-titled debut? Who knows. The record label buried it. But former Ozzy guitarist Jake E. Lee swears it's his best work

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“The first pedal emulation that truly captures the mechanical yet wildly organic nature of these oddball machines”: Strymon’s all-new digital stompbox offers an authentic recreation of classic oil can delays

The Olivera blends syrupy charm with modern usability, thanks to MIDI, presets, MultiSwitch, and expression pedal compatibility

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Gibson aims to expand its retail and live presence with third global Gibson Garage location

Following its Gibson Garages in Nashville and London, the legacy brand is opening a new space in Miami which aims to feature “unique discoveries intertwined with Latin culture around every corner”

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“The last thing he told me during that last interview was, ‘I’m probably gonna go until the wheels come off!’” I spoke to Ace Frehley a dozen times in the last two years of his life – oft-misunderstood, he was the true embodiment of rock ‘n’ roll spirit

Guitar World correspondent Andrew Daly got to know Frehley, his idol, incredibly well in his final years, and just as vivid as the memories of conversations about Kiss and the guitar are the chats about egg sandwiches, and why the guitar hero's home always had geese around

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“There was great jubilation and there were tears”: Fender invited music fans to design their own Telecaster. They received over 1,500 applications – and turned four into a reality

Everyone from children to lifelong guitarists entered the Fender Design Contest, which showcased Fender Japan’s quest to prove guitar is for everyone

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“I’m a big Metallica fan. I’ve seen Kirk playing it over the years and know what a big deal that guitar is”: Biffy Clyro's Simon Neil is a Strat player through and through – but here's why he couldn't say no to Gibson's ‘Greeny’ reissue

Buying such a pricey guitar wasn’t an easy decision, but he’s been making the most of his purchase

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