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“It’s like you’re hearing a song within a song”: How to turn a guitar solo into a mini composition

Ibanez signature artist Andy Timmons shows you how writing a solo is like writing a song, and why you should apply the same dynamics

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“The special sauce is the Enhance facility, which mimics the input stage of tube amps”: Blackstar Polar 2 review

Blackstar presents a USB audio interface that it proudly proclaims has been “designed by guitarists for guitarists”

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“I played it to him on an acoustic guitar and he went, ‘That sounds kinda French… let me write some lyrics’”: Gary Moore on how Thin Lizzy’s Phil Lynott helped shaped one of his most iconic guitar tracks

The two were regularly at loggerheads over personal and creative differences, but they did collaborate on Moore’s 1978 solo album Back on the Streets

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“I felt like I was cheating on my guitars that were on life support in the hospital, and I'm looking at dating sites”: Keith Urban reflects on rebuilding his entire guitar collection after Nashville's devastating 2010 flood

The country guitar icon had to scramble to buy new guitars just days before he was scheduled to record a new album

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“Ian broke his wrist. We took him to the hospital and he got a cast put on. And we knew the session was coming up…” Up close with the 1974 Les Paul Custom that Ian Bairnson used to play the solo on Kate Bush’s Wuthering Heights – with his arm in a cast

When he tracked Wuthering Heights, Bairnson had a broken wrist, his arm in plaster, but as Pilot bandmate David Paton says, that wouldn't stop a man like him

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"I’m happy to report that the Storia III is more than just a pretty face; it delivers a performance that matches its attractive appearance": Yamaha Storia III review

It’s got the looks, but has it got the substance to stand out?

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What do the finest blues guitarists of the past 60 years have in common? From B.B. King to Eric Gales, these are the technique secrets behind 30 of the most iconic players

Starting from ’50s electric blues pioneers, we're bending the blues scale into different shapes, with 30 licks taking us up to the present day as the art form continues to evolve and thrive

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“The Go-Go’s asked if I could play bass. ‘Sure,’ I said. I had never been the bass player in a band, but I figured how hard could it be?” Kathy Valentine switched away from guitar for The Go-Go’s –until her solo skills were called upon again

The Hall of Famer on not being allowed to contribute as much as she wanted, why the band may not return, and working with Ace Frehley and Gilby Clark

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“It’s an expansive and beautiful-sounding guitar that’s been flawlessly executed”: Meet the Tamar, a futuristic headless multi-scale electric from UK builder Yarde Guitars to rival Strandberg

James Yarde's creation is one to watch, with awesome humbucker tones that are splittable down to “hot Tele” single coils

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“IEMs are the future – and these are solid performers to start with”: Ultimate Ears Pro UE 150, UE 250 and UE 350 In-Ear Monitors review

In terms of protecting your hearing and giving you a super-clean mix for playing live, there's nothing like IEMs, and these offerings from UEP are a great introduction

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“It’s more important than ever that the music-making community has access to affordable musical instruments”: Fender has launched its first-ever Certified Pre-Owned program on Reverb – and it will sell pro-inspected, Fender-backed used gear at a discount

New second-hand instruments will be added to the online store every week, and each item will be professionally checked, refurbished if necessary, and sold with a one-year warranty

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“Randy was using all the latest guitar techniques, and was able to incorporate all this into his sound and make it his own”: MXR's limited-edition Randy Rhoads Distortion+ is finally here

The highly-anticipated pedal is based on Rhoads' pedalboard, which was unveiled by the late guitarist's family for the first time in 42 years

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“The most authentic emulation of the amp ever placed in a stompbox”: Universal Audio repackages Eddie Van Halen’s iconic Peavey 5150 in pedal form – with a built-in noise gate and overdrive

The latest entry to Universal's The Edge-backed, highly praised pedal amp family sets its sights on harnessing the tones of an influential modern metal and heavy rock stalwart

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“They wanted to create a moment similar to the Eddie Van Halen solo in Michael Jackson’s Beat It”: Unmasking the Paris Olympics’ mystery guitar virtuoso, who shredded his way through the closing ceremony in front of millions

The internet furiously debated the identity of the hooded shredder, better known as Phoenix collaborator Noé Efira. He shares the hidden meaning behind his outfit, how he secured his ultra-rare aluminum guitar from another iconic French group – and why we wasn't nervous performing in front of the audience of…

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“Randy has completed his time with Gibson as Master Designer and Pioneer of Mesa/Boogie”: Gibson confirms the departure of legendary amp designer and Mesa/Boogie founder Randall Smith

The influential boutique amp builder joined the Gibson family of brands following the firm's acquisition of Mesa/Boogie in 2021

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Deftones' Stephen Carpenter absent from 50,000-strong San Francisco concert, headlined by System of a Down

In 2022, the guitarist announced he was sitting out any future international tours and has recently spoken out about touring-related anxiety

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“Brings the all-in-one workhorse to more players than ever before”: Sterling by Music Man disrupts the entry-level guitar market with new Intro Series – debuting $199 Cutlass and $249 StingRay models

The firm looks to take on the beginner gear market's more established models with a range of nicely spec'd – and nice-looking – affordable electric and bass guitars

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“Brian May is my main influence for writing guitar parts. I like how melodic and catchy his playing is. It’s not trying to show off”: The Last Dinner Party’s Emily Roberts on bringing jazz into pop, and how St. Vincent shaped her playing (and her gear)

Her band has the biggest-selling debut album in nearly a decade in her native UK, and secured tours with Hozier and Florence & The Machine. Guitarist Emily Roberts explains how her background in jazz, theater and a Queen tribute band inspired her evocative playing style

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“Robert Plant said, ‘We’re going to do Rock And Roll by Led Zeppelin.’ I said, ‘I’m not doing it – I don’t want to be in Jimmy Page’s graveyard!’” UK songwriting icon Richard Hawley talks big name jams, guitar shopping –and restoring Scott Walker's Tele

Hawley doesn't hide his influences but instead synthesizes them into a sound that is all his own. And on new album, In This City They Call You Love, he might just have ascended into the ranks of the legends

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“It’s got the fattest neck Jackson has ever made… I said, ‘Am I going to be able to play this thing?’” Jackson has made Phil Collen a Tele-style model with a neck twice as thick as a regular guitar’s – and a signature version could be in the pipeline

The Def Leppard guitarist has remained loyal to Strat-style models for much of his career, but he's developed a new affinity for single-cuts

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“My father talked the owner of the club into letting his six-year-old son (me) sit in the back and watch Dickey perform… That experience changed my life”: Joe Bonamassa pays tribute to one of his biggest influences, Dickey Betts

Les Paul in hand, Bonamassa shows us two examples of how Betts might phrase a solo, one using the "country scale," the other using the minor pentatonic

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“Any clean tone would benefit from some Airchild tonal enrichment”: J Rockett Airchild 660 review

J Rockett’s latest offering for your ’board takes its inspiration from a legendary compressor from the ’50s

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“He came over and he said, 'You did a really good job up there.' I thought, 'Man, my guitar was off…’” Whitesnake’s Joel Hoekstra on the time Ace Frehley complimented his guitar playing… even though he wasn’t actually playing anything

Hoekstra says he only “really understood” the KISS veteran after partaking in an intimate and exclusive jam, during which Frehley insisted on cranking his amp to ear-splitting volumes

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“The worst-case scenario is if you just hang the guitar on the wall and brag to your rich buddies that you bought it. These things are tools to make music”: Joe Bonamassa plays Rory Gallagher's 1959 Esquire, calling him “one of my guitar heroes”

Bonamassa debunks the rumor that Gallagher only had one guitar throughout his career, namely, the '61 Fender Strat

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