DEFENDERS of the Faith

WOODSHED

VOL. 42 | NO. 8 | AUGUST 2021

SOUNDING BOARD

STAY CONNECTED WITH GUITAR WORLD ON

TUNE-UPS

Liquid Tension Experiment

WHAT'S ON MY PLAYLIST

TAINÁ BERGAMASCHI & SONIA ANUBIS OF CRYPTA

Zach Person

HOW A JAW-DROPPING GARY CLARK JR. COVER ON AMERICAN IDOL LED TO TO SHARING A STAGE WITH BUDDY GUY, SHARING BILLS WITH FOO FIGHTERS — AND RELEASING A MULTI-FACETED DEBUT ALBUM

Tamar Aphek

HOW A FORMER CONCERT PIANIST WAS LURED INTO ROCK — AND GUITARDOM — BY THE SIREN CALL OF DISTORTION

As Everything Unfolds

RISING UK METALLERS GO FOR GLORY ON THEIR STUNNING DEBUT ALBUM, WITHIN EACH LIES THE OTHER

Don’t Panic!

JIMMY BROWN EXPLAINS HOW TO USE THE PROCO PANIC BUTTON TO BOOST YOUR GUITAR VOLUME THROUGH A PA SYSTEM

New Music, Anyone?

THIS MONTH: REIMAGINED COUNTRY BLUES FROM THE BLACK KEYS, PLUS NEW TUNEAGE FROM BELLA THORNE (WITH MALINA MOYE), PAUL GILBERT, SCOTT McKEON AND MORE

Technical Ecstasy

JACKSON PRO SERIES DINKY DK MODERN EVERTUNE 6

Torrefaction Guaranteed

CORT GOLD-A6

Buzz Bin

Fender Mustang Micro

I GOT RHYTHM, PART 19

Quarter-note triplets

AROUND THE BENDS, PART 7

More string-bending techniques in E Dorian

GET ORGANIZED!

Emulating organ-style chord melodies, part 2

FREEDOM OF NAVIGATION

Incorporating position shifts across multiple strings when soloing

PERFORMANCE NOTES

• • • HOW TO PLAY THIS MONTH’S SONGS• • •

“SUPERSONIC”

OASIS | DEFINITELY MAYBE, 1994 | GUITARIST: NOEL GALLAGHER | 

BEAST FROM THE EAST

ON THE GOOSEBUMPS-INDUCING TOKYOJUKEBOX 3, SHRED GREAT MARTY FRIEDMAN TACKLES THE JAPANESE POP CHARTS:  “IT’S PRETTY MUCH STRAIGHT-UP J-POP THAT I PUT ON STEROIDS”

STOMPIN’ THE BLUES!

10 PEDALS that will help you channel the blues gods and bring your very best pentatonic licks to life

Hill Country Kream

Dan Auerbach goes to the source of Mississippi Hill Country blues and enlists guitarist Kenny Brown, R.L. Burnside’s right-hand man, for The Black Keys’ new collection of blues standards

Everybody Hollerin’ GOAT

MEET KENNY BROWN, THE GREATEST OF THE HILL

GUITAR'S GREATEST LIVE MOMENTS!

From the iconic to the infamous to the (literally) incendiary, we’ve tracked down the absolute wildest on-stage antics in six-string history

Live Wires

A BEVY OF NAME-BRAND GUITARISTS — FROM MORELLO TO STRAUSS TO BONAMASSA TO REID — NAME THEIR FAVORITE, MOST LIFE-CHANGING CONCERT MOMENTS

Burnt Offerings

WHATEVER HAPPENED TO THE MONTEREY STRATOCASTER AND OTHER GUITARS THAT JIMI HENDRIX SET AFIRE? BY ERIC KIRKLAND

A Texas Flood of Live Memories

Texas-born guitar great T-Bone Walker performs in 1967

ON THE ROAD AGAIN?

PAUL GILBERT, the Eagles’ VINCE GILL and Zepparella’s GRETCHEN MENN discuss a shift from boring to touring

THE PHANTOM ZONE

BLACK VEIL BRIDES RETURN WITH THE PHANTOM TOMORROW, THEIR FIRST FULL-LENGTH ALBUM IN THREE YEARS.  GUITARISTS JAKE PITTS AND JINXX BRING GUITARWORLDINSIDE THEIR UNIVERSE FOR A CLOSE LOOK AT WHY THE NEW ALBUM MIGHT JUST BE THEIR “BEST WORK YET.”

SOUND CHECK

Solidbody Remix

NOTATION GUIDE

“THE LESS I KNOW THE BETTER”

Tame Impala

“HELTER SKELTER”

The Beatles

“JEREMY”

Pearl Jam