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“In the world of extended chords, this is as far as we can go”: Demystifying 13th chords, the voicing that Stevie Ray Vaughan used to stunning effect in Lenny

This primer in 13th chords will give you five voicings to use in your playing – and an explanation on how they get their name

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Joe Satriani’s amp builder has released a potentially game-changing pickup system – which gives players the power to choose where their gain is created

3rd Power's MagFRAG system has been channeled into two new pickup lines that could give players unprecedented tonal control

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“Albert King took me aside. He said, ‘The biggest thing about music is you can’t play what people want you to play.’ My dad said that, too”: Bernard Allison grew up surrounded by blues legends – and hid the fact he was learning guitar for years

Luther Allison’s son played with Stevie Ray Vaughan for his 16th birthday, toured in a band where pedals were forbidden, and achieved his ambition of being in his father’s band, and even leading it

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“He exemplified how top instrumentalists can adapt to a remarkable range of styles and settings”: Steel guitarist Pete Finney – who performed with Vince Gill, Reba McEntire and the Monkees – dies aged 70

The Nashville legend played with a variety of high-profile artists, including the Chicks, the Judds, and Patty Loveless – and was known as a connoisseur of American music history

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“My only frustrations are with its unstable tuning, which dampens an otherwise fantastic playing experience”: Cort Space G6TR review

Cort's well-spec'd Strandberg rival capitalizes on the headless guitar renaissance, but it's not without its flaws

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“I thought my computer actually broke”: Bass phenom Kinga Głyk recalls the moment her rendition of an Eric Clapton classic went viral – and made her career

Głyk also touches on how social media can be used as a democratizing tool for musicians to access the industry

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“Even if no-one’s applauding, this is still going”: Mark Speer was so afraid the audience wouldn’t applaud at early Khruangbin shows, he figured out how to do it on guitar

The Khruangbin guitarist also admits that this guitar trick was inspired by a legendary boxing video game

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“I would sneak off with her guitar. She’d get really p***ed off at me”: Nancy Wilson’s first guitar was unplayable – so she kept stealing her sister’s

Wilson needed to play a six-string that was better than the $30 rental guitar she had herself

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“Classical guitarists are at war with the guitar. They want to be part of the greater tradition like violin and piano. They want it to be more than it is”: How classical-schooled Derek Gripper rehabilitated himself with 21-string West African technique

The South African musician spent a decade translating the centuries-old repertoire of the West African kora. He emerged with his a unique sound that isn’t restricted to the grid of the staff or the notes on a page

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“To my ears, it’s not very usable”: The main problems with Telecasters, according to Paul Reed Smith

PRS has a few T-types in its catalog – and building them allowed Paul Reed Smith to address the biggest issues he had with the classic guitar

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“Cutting-edge Fluence technology meets world-class artistry”: Fishman brings Herman Li’s PRS Chleo Fluence pickups to the masses – but there’s a catch

The Omniforce pickup set offers six distinct voices to capture Li’s wide tonal range

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“I did tours sleeping in a tent to save money. I asked this family if I could pitch up in their garden. That helped me get my first P-Bass”: Rock ’n’ roll's ‘Forrest Gump’Leo Lyons shares the story of Ten Years After and their iconic Woodstock set

The Ten Years After bassist survived Hamburg’s Star-Club, sparked the blues boom, achieved immortality at Woodstock – and is still going strong at 82. “Music,” he says, “it’s a drug…”

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“It was not possible to get a left-handed Jazzmaster in this country. Fender told me, ‘You might as well be ringing Ibanez – we just don’t make them’”: Mike Vennart on the Squier Strats that are simply unbeatable – and why he hates acoustics

The former Oceansize and long-time Biffy Clyro touring guitarist on his love of off-the-beaten-path six-strings and why you've got to try before you buy

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“It was an extremely agile move. It was so smooth, it was like we had choreographed it”: Michael Angelo Batio on the time Billy Corgan spared his blushes during a Smashing Pumpkins guest spot

The double-neck guitar shred icon once shared the stage with Smashing Pumpkins during their Riot Fest headline slot

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“There’s more than a whiff of Keef’s fabled old Telecasters”: The Newman Torn and Frayed Edition might be the Rolling Stones-inspired T-type we’ve been dreaming of

With vibe and mojo off the charts, this UK boutique build is a stunning example of what a little imagination can do with when applied to Blackguard inspiration

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“David shook my hand and said, ‘Here’s the song I want to do.’ It was Golden Years. I was auditioning during the making of the album”: Bassist George Murray’s six-year stint with David Bowie

As a member of Bowie’s band, George Murray cut the studio albums Station to Station, Low, Heroes, Lodger, and Scary Monsters

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“We were terrified we were going to get caught. A lot of people would have lost their jobs”: That time one of alt-rock’s goofiest bands snuck into a storage space at 2am, and recorded a solo through Carlos Santana’s full guitar rig

A tip from a roadie led to a clandestine operation that, its lead perpetrator said, “resembled an early morning bank heist”

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“Tal came over and said, ‘Sting, it doesn’t quite go the way you’re playing it…’” When Tal Wilkenfeld taught Sting the correct way to play an Aerosmith classic

Sting was performing alongside Steven Tyler and Jeff Beck at the MGM Grand when Wilkenfeld intervened

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Five-neck guitars, custom models with nine pickups, and... model train lap steels? Prove your knowledge of the strangest guitars ever built

You're a no-nonsense guitar type? Sorry, this is all nonsense! OK, not all of it – some of these six- (and four, and... 17) string builds have serious functions, but they sure make it weird along the way

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“He was like, ‘No, I want the other position.’ That’s where it became so acrimonious between us”: Francis Rossi opens up on the internal tensions between Status Quo’s two guitar greats

A decade on since Rick Parfitt's death, Rossi reveals how the Quo wasn't big enough for the both of them

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“I saw these at Guitar Summit last year and came away with one thought: this might be the guitar of my dreams”: All the new guitar gear that has caught my eye this week – including a long-awaited Lamb of God Les Paul

All-new drops from Kiesel, Manson, Gibson, Eastman, Taylor and more…

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D’Addario just launched a glove to clean your guitar

The Micro-Fiber Polishing Mitt might look like an oven glove, but it promises to help keep your favorite axes squeaky clean

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“Blends performance and aesthetics into a single, uncompromising musical tool”: Harley Benton’s well-specced $285 eight-string finally gets a left-handed version

The multi-scale axe is well-spec' d for its price – and now southpaws can get in on the action

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“It didn’t work well at the time. Then it just became one of the most popular guitars ever made”: The latest in Gibson and Leo Scala’s Master Artisan Collection is a love letter to the O.G. Explorer – and our addiction to rare guitars

The legendary LA-based luthier digs into his reserves of korina for the '58 Addiction Explorer, 10 totally unique takes on the iconic Gibson electric

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“A piece as collectible as it is playable”: Prince’s signature Taylor is back for the first time in 15 years – but you’ll have to go to Paisley Park to get it

The guitar, which debuted on the 2004 Musicology tour, is being sold exclusively at Prince's former home

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