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The guitar solo has been pronounced dead or

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PUMP UP THE VOLUME!

THIS MONTH SEES THE REISSUE OF THE CONNOISSEURS’ SABBATH ALBUM, VOL. 4. TG ANALYSES HOW IOMMI CREATED THE ALBUM’S HEAV Y SOUND

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THE GUITAR WORLD PAYS ATTENTION AS MORE HIGHLY-COVETABLE MODELS FIND THEIR WAY TO THE AUCTION BLOCK

THE MAKING OF A GUITAR HERO

FIVE THINGS WE LEARNED ABOUT JOE BONAMASSA FROM THE NEW DOCUMENTARY  GUITAR MAN

CHORD CHANGES AND ARPEGGIOS

GETTING STARTED WITH…

ARCHITECTS

Animals

IRON MAIDEN

THE NUMBER OF THE BEAST

JEFF BECK

’CAUSE WE’VE ENDED AS LOVERS

CHORDS

The great thing about open tunings is that

BETTER OBLIVION COMMUNITY CENTER

DYLAN THOMAS

TAB GUIDE

Get more from TG by understanding our easy-to-follow musical terms and signs

THE 50 GREATEST Solos OF ALL TIME

TG PROUDLY PRESENTS OUR RUNDOWN OF THE HOTTEST SOLOS EVER RECORDED, AS VOTED FOR BY READERS OF GUITAR WORLD.COM

IS THE GUITAR SOLO DEAD IN THE 21ST CENTURY?

With guitar solos absent from the charts, Green Day declaring the supremacy of the anti-solo, and Eddie Van Halen gone, is it the end for the fret-melting guitar hero?

10 CRAZY TRAIN OZZY OSBOURNE

GUITARIST: RANDY RHOADS (1980)

09 BEAT IT MICHAEL JACKSON

GUITARIST: EDDIE VAN HALEN (1982)

08 FREE BIRD LYNYRD SKYNYRD

GUITARIST: ALLEN COLLINS (1974)

06 SWEET CHILD O’ MINE GUNS N’ ROSES

GUITARIST: SLASH (1988)

07 SULTANS OF SWING DIRE STRAITS

GUITARIST: MARK KNOPFLER (1977)

04 STAIRWAY TO HEAVEN LED ZEPPELIN

GUITARIST: JIMMY PAGE (1971)

05 HOTEL CALIFORNIA EAGLES

GUITARIST: DON FELDER, JOE WALSH (1977)

4 COMFORTABLY NUMB PINK FLOYD

GUITARIST: DAVID GILMOUR (1979)

02 ERUPTION VAN HALEN

GUITARIST: EDDIE VAN HALEN (1978)

01 BOHEMIAN RHAPSODY QUEEN

GUITARIST BRIAN MAY  (1975)

THE GREAT BIG SOLO SCIENCE EXPERIMENT

TG follows the science behind the solos to find out exactly what makes these classic songs so enduring

FRANKEN-SOLO

TG creates the ‘scientifically proven’ greatest solo of all time, and you can learn it here…

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REAL WORLD REVIEWS OF THE BEST NEW GEAR

START ME UP!

Five awesome new products to get your gear engine revving this month…

FENDER AMERICAN PRO II STRATOCASTER HSS

The do-it-all Strat?

Hum’s the word

Why the Pro II’s pickups offer a distinct proposition

USING THE LINE 6 HX STOMP FOR PRACTICE, SONGWRITING AND RECORDING

The success of the Helix family of amp

TC ELECTRONIC DITTO+

The new best mini looper to buy?

DANELECTRO ’57

A ridiculously cool reissue of one of the original American electric guitars

MXR M267 OCTAVIO FUZZ

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ARI O’NEAL

“The secret behind getting so many gigs as a