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“The people I listened to most are the guitar players from the 1920s, who are some of the best that ever did it”: Charlie Hunter has played with John Mayer, D’Angelo and Frank Ocean – just don’t call him a session guitarist

The storied explorer thinks the age of the session musician is over. He shares why blues has shaped his playing more than jazz, his experiments with seven- and eight-strings, and why he’s gigging a bass-meets-guitar hybrid that’s harder to play than most

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“I never want to be boastful – I don’t like being the center of attention. Even my guitar playing is like that”: Cameron Griffin has gone from construction worker to UCLA linebacker and, now, a multi-platinum producer and guitarist

The guitarist, songwriter and producer says the recognition is nice, but he’s keeping his focus

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“Picture a bright blue ball spinning... Dizzy with eternity": Dead & Company, featuring John Mayer, delight Deadheads at The Sphere

Footage of full-on immersive psychedelia experience emerges

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Exploring Hollywood's Top 10 Acoustic Performances

Immerse yourself in the raw emotion and musical talent of top artists in intimate acoustic performances.

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24 hours with Rabbit R1, and I'm not completely sold... yet

There's a new wave of devices with the Humane AI Pin and Rabbit R1 leading the charge. But, after spending a day with the R1, I'm left with more questions than answers.

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John Mayer and Kenny Wayne Shepherd are two of the biggest names in modern blues – and boy, do they know how to introduce a guitar solo

Learn how to phrase spellbending blues intro licks in the style of Kenny Wayne Shepherd and John Mayer

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“Your voice has been heard”: At long last, left-handed versions of John Mayer’s PRS SE Silver Sky are officially on the way – and they’re arriving sooner than you might think

Following huge demand, PRS is set to reconfigure the hugely popular model for southpaws six years after its initial release

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“Is it wrong in every possible way or do you dig it?” This guitarist transformed their John Mayer PRS signature guitar into a Stevie Ray Vaughan Number One Strat tribute – and now we really want a sunburst Silver Sky

John Mayer once asserted he’d never produce a sunburst version of his popular PRS signature guitar. Now we know what it would look like, and it's quite something

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Someone has turned their John Mayer PRS Silver Sky guitar into an SRV Number One Strat tribute and it looks much better than you might think

This Silver Sky ain't crying

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“When I play the trill with my finger, my hand is not on the neck at all. It all comes from the wrist”: The story of B.B. King, the greatest blues guitar player of all time

How the King of the Blues heard his calling, found a guitar, and developed a style that made him the undisputed greatest of all time

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A definitive timeline of Taylor Swift's famous exes — and the songs she's written about them

The Tortured Poets Department was heavily rumoured to be about Joe Alwyn, only to seem heavily influenced by The 1975’s Matt Healy. But don’t worry, he’s in good company — depending on how you look at it

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“So well-versed in the art of blues that B.B. King said ‘he was like another one of my sons’”: 12 blues guitar albums that chart the genre – and the instrument’s – evolution

From Son House to Eric Gales, John Lee Hooker to Albert Collins, these classics highlight how blues guitar has changed over the years – its stories, tones and techniques all passed down and reinvented

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Like Jimi Hendrix before him, John Mayer is not averse to bringing his thumb in for chord fretting duties: here's some of that and more with 4 Mayer chords to try

Waiting on the D/F# to change

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'There’s so much music to be discovered simply by retuning your guitar': Try these 9 alternate guitar tunings to inspire your playing today – including the saddest tuning of all time

Open the door to new creative possibilities with these varied tunings

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Scheana Shay Hints At Past Fling With John Mayer

Reality TV star Scheana Shay claims a past fling with musician John Mayer, who denies involvement. Shay's revelations and Mayer's response have sparked con...

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“In the centre of the fretboard… the one, the two and the five. I think that’s sort of my signature": Now you can learn John Mayer's favourite three-note guitar chords for yourself

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“Is it just me, or is that Stone Gossard and/or Mike McCready doing The Gojira Pick Scrape™?” March 2024 Guitar World editors’ picks

From indie folk, full-throttle blues rock and flamenco-meets-fusion to the guitar crossover episode you never knew you needed – here are our standout guitar tracks from the past 30 days

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'The final piece of the puzzle for many guitarists is targeting the best notes at the right moment': How to play better guitar solos by incorporating the blues

Everything you need to improve

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What time is John Mayer on stage at London's O2 Arena?

Guitar legend heading to Greenwich as part of European run of shows

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Steely Dan pianist and keyboard player Jim Beard has died, aged 63: “He was the glue and such a great presence on so many projects,” says drummer Peter Erskine

Beard also worked with Wayne Shorter, John Mayer and John McLaughlin

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Download and stream the audio from Guitar Techniques 359

All of the videos, backing tracks and audio from issue 359 of Guitar Techniques, to download and stream.

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“I’ve done gigs where they’re like, ‘You’re good for an Instagram guitarist.’ I was like, ‘I’m not one!’” Meet George Collins – the Bieber-backed British Berklee grad navigating Nashville as part of the next generation of session players

The young guitar ace discusses how guitar lessons from Neil Young (no, not that one) shaped his love of music, the best tips he learned from Berklee and how he's carving out a career in one of music's most competitive session scenes

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“I could finally quieten down this noise in my head... the best in the room is sitting over there – and it doesn’t have to maybe be me”: John Mayer says that when Jeff Beck was in the room, he felt he could finally relax about his guitar playing

Mayer has described a sense of a weight being lifted when in the presence of the formidable guitar talent

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