“An unlikely combo of samba and shred – it shouldn’t work but it kinda does”: March 2026 Guitar World Editors’ Picks
Collaborative instrumental greatness from six-string aces new and old (SatchVai), bossa nova guitar bliss, sublime slide work, swashbuckling 12-bar blues… we’ve had it all this month
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Marshall protein powder and AI-powered gloves that play for you: These are the best guitar April Fools hoaxes we’ve seen this year
It’s 1 April – and guitar brands are at it again…
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The best desktop amps for portability and uncompromising sound quality
Downsizing to a desktop amp could mean an upgrade for your electric guitar sound. Here are ten of our favourites from Positive Grid, JBL, Blackstar and more
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“I got to play with Layne and Chris and Lanegan. Now they’re gone. What would they be doing now? That haunts me to this day”: Mike McCready opens up on his new rock opera, the Seattle jams that changed him, and the future of Pearl Jam
Farewell to Seasons documents McCready’s path through the Seattle grunge explosion of the ’90s. He reflects on the singers he’s loved and lost, the guitarists who left the biggest mark on his playing and why going digital has made him a better player
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Steve Vai struggled to play Brian May’s Red Special guitar due to its strange neck: “I just remember thinking, ‘I can’t play this thing’”
“It was a miracle to actually have the guitar under my fingers, and he allowed that.”
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“I just remember thinking, ‘I can’t play this thing’”: Why Steve Vai struggled to play Brian May’s iconicRed Special
Vai was just a youngster when May invited him to a Queen rehearsal – and offered him the chance to play the legendary six-string
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Six classic Electro-Harmonix pedals are now available in plugin form
The legendary pedal brand teams up with MixWave to bring the Big Muff Pi, Deluxe Memory Man, Electric Mistress and Small Clone to your DAW.
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Paul Gilbert: What I learned and taught at GIT
Paul was a student and a tutor at LA’s G.I.T. (Guitar Institute of Technology). Here are the shred secrets he learned there – and taught
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“Björn and I met and discussed what it could look like. It had to be shiny and sparkling”: How a Swedish luthier used by Led Zeppelin and Eric Clapton created the iconic ABBA star guitar
Meet Göran Malmberg, maker of the ultimate glam-rock axe that Björn Ulvaeus of ABBA walked on the Eurovision stage with in 1974
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“Way more rare than a Klon”: JHS Pedals pays tribute to pedal builder with the Coyote – a new fuzz that’s based on one of the rarest pedals of all time
The three-in-one fuzz is based on G.S. Wyllie’s Moonrock – and it took Josh Scott six years to find one
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“I’d listen to it in my bunk on my Walkman in private”: David Ellefson kept his love of Metallica’s Master of Puppets a secret from Dave Mustaine
“I studied that record and what they were doing… We were never going to sound like them, but it really upped the game for me when it came to songwriting.”
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“I need to be honest about how well this pedal holds up for down-tuning against the newer competition it faces”: DigiTech Drop Limited Black Edition review
The Polyphonic Drop Tune pedal first landed in 2014, and now a limited run in a new finish gives us a good opportunity to check where it stands today
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“If you talked to me when I was 25 years old, I would have been frightened to take a solo after Joe Satriani…” Why Cory Wong is no longer afraid to trade leads with his heroes
Wong and bassist to the stars Oteil Burbridge discuss the importance of developing – and being confident in – your own playing style
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Doug Irwin, who made Jerry Garcia’s $11.5 million Tiger guitar, has died
The legendary luthier built several of the Grateful Dead icon’s instruments.
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“What happens when you do more with dramatically more? The answer weighs 4,600 pounds and comes with its own parking problem”: Forget digital modelers, what if your ride was your rig? Quilter Labs’ four-wheeled, 200,000-watt amp is the future of loud
Just add fuel…and maybe use earplugs?
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“Get the data-driven results musicians dream of”: Chibson and Acorn Amps team up for the definitely-not-Google Drive pedal
It’s inspired by a well-known cloud storage service and a pun so obvious, we can’t believe we had to wait this long
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“The phone rang. It was Paul McCartney. That’s when I knew we’d found it”: We meet the man who reunited Paul McCartney with his long-lost Beatles bass
Stolen in 1972, Paul McCartney’s missing Höfner resurfaced in a family’s attic 51 years after it disappeared. But it took some tracking down…
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“It’s not a Bowie tribute, though it’s hard for people not to think of us as that, because look who we have”: How David Bowie’s longest-serving guitarist became the hero in his own story
KillerStar might be populated by Bowie alumni, but with guitarist-vocalist Rob Fleming fronting, The Afterglow is a record with its own unique flavor, says Earl Slick