It is the first week of December, and the song occupying the number 91 spot in the UK chart is “Mr Brightside” by the Killers. You may well wonder why we should concern ourselves with a song dwelling

A CHIEF CONSIDERATION when playing with a slide is the tuning. Many of our favorite slide players — Elmore James, Duane Allman, Johnny Winter, Derek Trucks — play slide almost exclusively in an open t

SINCE FOUNDING BIG Wreck in the early Nineties, Ian Thornley has filled his band’s songbook with arena-conquering melodies, Led Zeppelin-hailing heft and some of the most super-heroically knuckle-bust

CRAFTING AN APPEALING guitar solo for a song is always a creative challenge. There are many different approaches one can take: Do I follow the chord changes so that the notes line up perfectly with th

IT SEEMS THAT Dave Mustaine’s wild heavy metal journey is ending via a final Megadeth album — January’s self-titled release — and a globetrotting tour. To that end, he tells Guitar World, “We have a l

IT’S WIDELY KNOWN that Steely Dan’s Donald Fagen and Walter Becker were tough taskmasters when it came to the studio, particularly in terms of their session guitarists. The most famous example of thei