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The greatest guitar solos of all time

What makes a guitar solo great goes beyond a guitarist's technical ability. A guitar solo is a personal expression through an ...
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Drummer represents a remarkable through-line for the Connecting Chords Music Festival

Kalamazoo-born musician Rohan Krishnamurthy will bring his innovative Alaya Project to his hometown on Thursday, Sep 18 at 7 ...

Rush’s Alex Lifeson was a master of first inversion chords – here are 5 voicings you can use in your playing today

Don't be intimidated by the terminology. First-inversion chords is the fancy name for slash chords and they can add some ...
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The VP-1 Dark Fang is a space-age Super Guitar that introduces a wild new fretboard capable of ‘outward string bending’

Inspired by the Indian sitar and Chinese pipa, the The VP-1 Dark Fang looks to facilitate an entirely new way of playing the guitar ...

Eddie Van Halen used it, Jimmy Page loved it, and all of your heavy metal heroes have tried it – drop D made drop-dead simple

Many guitarists have favored drop D to add thickness to their riffs. The list would include Eddie Van Halen, Jimmy Page, Kurt Cobain, Kim Thayil, Jerry Cantrell, Dimebag Darrell, Tom Morello, Adam ...