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“It’s an honor to enter this journey”: Mateus Asato confirms he’s joining Fender – and might have given us the first look at his signature guitar

It’s the announcement we’ve all been expecting since Asato left Suhr at the start of the year

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“It’s like a no-holds-barred riff throwdown between nu-metal and grunge. It. Does. Not. Let. Up.”: February 2026 Guitar World Editors’ Picks

Two generations of virtuosos – Steve Vai and Matteo Mancuso – join forces, Midwest Emo GOATs American Football return, Anna Calvi works wonders with her Telecaster, Mateus Asato gives us long-awaited instrumental bliss, and Angine de Poitrine deliver, uh, “Dada-Pythago-Cubist Mantra-rock” – all this and much, much more

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“There’s a couple of songs on the record where I thought, ‘Gosh, I’m soloing so much. Please be quiet. Let it breathe’”: He played for pop A-listers, now he's transformed himself into one of instrumental guitar's leading voices

When he learned he couldn’t be Eric Johnson or John Petrucci, Mateus Asato decided to be someone else – himself

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“If Hendrix were alive today and we were friends, how would he write an instrumental song?!” Mateus Asato is stepping out on his own with a debut solo album – and a track that pays homage to his hero

Asato has been teeing up his solo album for the past couple of months – and has now announced the title and release date

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“You guys are funny. Imagine playing Little Wing on a guitar that isn’t a Strat…” After leaving Suhr, Mateus Asato sets the record straight on Fender rumors

Asato announced his departure from Suhr just one week ago – and is scheduled to release his debut album in the coming weeks

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“Thanks to those who made this company one of the greatest brands in the history of this instrument”: Mateus Asato is parting ways with Suhr after 12 years – and fans are already speculating where he's going next

The neo-soul virtuoso leaves the guitar brand after more than a decade of partnership

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“The perfect marriage of Aerosmith and the Cult. An Aerocult, if you will”: November 2025 Guitar World Editors’ Picks

The new guitar music that GW editors have been obsessed with this month: fresh names, old hands and trailblazing players

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“I moved over to Fender for a couple of years, learning a lot of history there – but also how I didn’t want to make aguitar”: How John Suhr built one of guitar’s hottest boutique brands

John Suhr knows a thing or two about tone. Hey, the guy oversaw repairs at Rudy’s Music in NYC, modded amps with Bob Bradshaw, became a Senior Master Builder and launched his own brand

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“My emotional celebration of life”: Mateus Asato left Bruno Mars and Jessie J to begin his solo career – and now his debut single is finally here

Cryin’ is the first taste of Asato’s eagerly anticipated debut album

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“If the guitar has ever been your sanctuary, you already know you need to be there”: Nuno Bettencourt announces four day guitar camp – and he's recruited some big-name players to help

Steve Vai, Eric Gales, Rick Beato, and Mateus Asato are among the guest stars who will take part

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“I took the guitar to someone and when I got it back, I almost cried. I decided, ‘Nobody is touching my stuff again’”: The botched luthier job that convinced John Suhr to get into guitar building

The celebrated luthier may have had a different career if it weren’t for someone else’s careless craftsmanship

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“Trading the stability of playing for a pop star to start walking on my own steps was a very tough decision”: Mateus Asato has walked away from Bruno Mars, Jessie J and Tori Kelly to pursue a solo career – and his solo album is finally ready

After honing his craft with some of the world’s biggest pop stars, the social media phenom is branching out on his own with his upcoming solo record

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“I had no idea of the impact that these Instagram videos were having until I went to South Korea. There were 500 people there just to see this ‘Mateus Asato guy’”: How Mateus Asato changed gears from sideman and Instagram guitarist to fully-fledged artist

The versatile player's resume includes everyone from Bruno Mars to Joe Satriani

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“Experience the all new OSO Short Scale”: Suhr’s new build aims for the best of both – combining a Gibson-like scale length with a T-style body

Featuring a 24.625" scale length and the best of Suhr’s specs, the high-end guitar has already won over Mateus Asato

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“My phone rang – Nuno told me to get to Sao Paulo right away. I arrived 30 minutes before guesting on Get the Funk Out”: Mateus Asato on landing the Bruno Mars gig, playing with his heroes and how his pink Suhr went from reject to best-selling signature

Asato leads an amazing double life as pop sideman and virtuoso shredder. He dishes on his big social media mistake, the help he got from Kiko Loureiro, and the last-minute call from Nino Bettencourt he couldn’t ignore

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“The idea of the ‘rhythm’ side and the ‘lead’ side as distinctly separate entities has become somewhat blurred”: Mateus Asato is a modern master of combined rhythm and lead playing – he shares his poetic soloing secrets

No one mixes genres like Mateus Asato, and in this lesson brought to you in partnership with JTC Guitar, the neo-soul master brings funk, jazz and soul together in exercises to improve your use of ghost notes and double-stops

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“My older content was way more technique-driven… I wanted to become more sophisticated. Virtuoso music can be impressive but extremely shallow”: Martin Miller on how he recruited Paul Gilbert, Lari Basilio and Mateus Asato for his world-beating jams

The Ibanez signature artist talks forsaking his shred roots, how to approach chord changes and those world-class live sessions with the likes of Paul Gilbert and Andy Timmons

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“It makes me sick to even think that I spent that much money on a guitar. Nile Rodgers was like, ‘What is that?!’” Tash Sultana on the magic of Strats and blowing a guitar legend’s mind with an extremely rare model

The musical polymath reveals what the future holds for their signature Strat, and why jamming with Nile Rodgers, Mateus Asato and Tom Morello was just what the doctor ordered

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“This is like a Neural DSP Tinder”: Plini and Mateus Asato go on a guitar virtuoso date to write a song in a day – and the results are jaw-dropping

Armed with a guitar each and their signature Neural DSP plugins, the two charming guitar maestros have collaborated on an instrumental track, with cameras documenting their process

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“Jimi once said he’d been imitated so well that people had even copied his mistakes”: Watch Nile Rodgers, Tom Morello, Rebecca Lovell and more celebrate 70 years of the Strat in an all-star cover of Voodoo Child

To mark the Stratocaster's 70th Anniversary, Fender got 10 of today's Strat players to pay tribute to its most famous player – and turn loose the wah – on a cover of Voodoo Child (Slight Return)

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“Forever ahead of its time”: Fender kicks off the Strat’s 70th anniversary party with star-studded Voodoo Child (Slight Return) mega-jam – featuring Tom Morello, Nile Rodgers, Mateus Asato, Ari O'Neal and Rei

The fiery, tag-teamed take on the Hendrix classic is designed to showcase the Strat’s enduring legacy – and tonal flexibility

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Steve Vai, Mateus Asato and Marcin Patrzalek delivered one of this year's most distinctive jams at Vai Academy 2024 – and now you can watch it

Captured during January's technique retreat in Orlando, it finds the three virtuosos oozing personality and enviable talent over a spacious and energetic rhythm section

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Smooth fingerstyle, emotive phrasing and expert control of dynamics – Mateus Asato is a shred-rock neo-soul virtuoso for the social media age, and every guitarist can benefit from learning his tasteful techniques

We unpack the Brazilian maestro's signature style, whipping your sweep, hybrid and alternate picking into shape

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“I actually never learned how to play with a pick. It’s my weak point”: Matteo Mancuso is revered for his virtuosic fingerstyle approach – but what happens when he tries to play with a guitar pick?

Mancuso has developed a reputation as one of the most formidable fingerstyle players on the planet, but in a new video with Rick Beato and Mateus Asato, the young virtuoso was confronted with the prospect of playing with a pick

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“When I started falling in love with guitar-driven music, I found that all roads led back to him”: Why Jimi Hendrix is still inspiring the latest generation of guitarists – five decades after his death

Christone “Kingfish” Ingram, Melanie Faye, Mateus Asato and an all-star cast explain why today’s generation of guitar players remain indebted to Jimi Hendrix, and what we can all learn from him, no matter what style we play

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