Guitar Player Staff

Guitar Player Staff

Guitar Player is the world’s most comprehensive, trusted and insightful guitar publication for passionate guitarists and active musicians of all ages. Guitar Player magazine is published 13 times a year in print and digital formats. The magazine was established in 1967 and is the world's oldest guitar magazine.


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Latest articles by Guitar Player Staff

The Edge adorns the cover of Guitar Player's June 2023 issue

June 2023 Guitar Player Lesson Audio

By Guitar Player Staff published

Jeff Beck performs on stage with the Imelda May Band at Indigo2 at O2 Arena on September 21, 2009 in London, England.

“I’m Having a Religious Moment”: That Time ‘GP’ Presented Jeff Beck With Guitar Hero Cliff Gallup’s Picks

By Chris Gill, Guitar Player Staff published

“Now I have to rethink my whole fingering,” said the guitarist

The Yardirds in 1966 (L-R): (L-R) Jeff Beck, Jim McCarty, Chris Dreja, Jimmy Page and Keith Relf.

Jeff Beck’s Top Five Psychedelic Rock Tracks

By Christopher Scapelliti, Guitar Player Staff published

Choice cuts from the electric guitar innovator’s mid-‘60s Yardbirds era

From left, Eric Clapton, Ginger Baker (1939-2019) and Jack Bruce (1943-2014) of British rock band Cream posed together in Green Park, London, in July 1966. (

“We Were One of the Early Heavy Metal Bands Without Knowing It”: How Eric Clapton, Jack Bruce and Ginger Baker Turbo-Charged the Blues With Cream

By Guitar Player Staff published

The original supergroup pioneered a fusion of blues-rock that directly influenced a generation of musicians

Eric Gales performs during the 2023 Savannah Music Festival at Trustees' Garden Main Stage on March 25, 2023 in Savannah, Georgia.

“Being Afraid to Try Is Not Going to Help You Expand”: Eric Gales Shares Some of His Best Guitar Playing Tips

By Guitar Player Staff published

From runs in fives to using less obvious scales and extended chords, the electric guitar master explains how to “sound more unique and less predictable”

Fantastic Negrito performs during Reel To Reel: White Jesus Black Problems Featuring A Post-Screening Interview And Acoustic Performance From Fantastic Negrito at The GRAMMY Museum on June 02, 2022 in Los Angeles, California.

“I Started Channeling My Black Roots – My Ancestry”: Fantastic Negrito Talks Rediscovering the Old Blues Greats

By Guitar Player Staff published

How the Grammy-winning maverick cheated death and became one of blues’ biggest innovators

Rory Gallagher photographed for his Top Priority album cover on 11th June 1979.

Watch Rory Gallagher's Explosive "Shadow Play" Performance

By Guitar Player Staff published

Video In one of his greatest live performances captured on film, the Irish guitarist shows why he was so highly regarded by his peers

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Gary Clark Jr., performs in Spain in 2022

Cop Some Electric Blues Wisdom From Gary Clark Jr.

By Guitar Player Staff, Amit Sharma published

These sample licks will help you put his awesome technique to work in your own playing

Johnny Winter performs at Eric Clapton's Crossroads Guitar Festival 2007 held at Toyota Park on July 28, 2007 in Bridgeview, Illinois.

Watch Johnny Winter’s Fiery “Highway 61 Revisited” Performance With Derek Trucks

By Guitar Player Staff published

Video Perhaps no track demonstrates his furious slide work as well as this cover of the Bob Dylan classic

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Slash adorns the cover of Guitar Player's May 2023 issue

May 2023 Guitar Player Lesson Audio

By Guitar Player Staff published

The Rolling Stones in 1963 (L-R): Bill Wyman, Keith Richards, Mick Jagger, Charlie Watts and Brian Jones.

Watch the Rolling Stones' Iconic Television Performance of Willie Dixon’s “Little Red Rooster”

By Guitar Player Staff published

Video The producer, bassist and immensely prolific songwriter was responsible for some of the blues’ – and popular music’s – most enduring hits

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Memphis Minnie pictured with a Nationall acoustic guitar circa 1950

Prolific, Confessional and a No-Bullsh*t Character: How Memphis Minnie Became One of the Most Incendiary Guitarists of Her Day

By Guitar Player Staff published

The renegade star's professional career in blues is matched by no other female musician, and by very few men

Robert Johnson and Gibson L-1

“In the Canon of the Blues, His Songs Are Really Top of the Heap”: Walter Trout Explains Why Robert Johnson Is Considered in a League of His Own

By Guitar Player Staff published

Covered by the likes of Led Zeppelin, the Rolling Stones and Eric Clapton, Robert Johnson’s originals are the ground zero of recorded Delta blues

Gary Moore performs in London in 1973.

Watch Gary Moore Shred the Blues

By Guitar Player Staff published

Video The late bluesman from Belfast demonstrates his world-class technique and explains what makes a great electric guitar

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Led Zeppelin perform live

“I Owe It to All of Them”: Jimmy Page Explains How His Love of the Blues Fueled the Fire for One of Rock’s Biggest Bands

By Guitar Player Staff published

“It was just an undeniable element of everything that was going on in Led Zeppelin,” says the guitarist

Son House performing circa 1960

Here’s How Bottleneck Master Son House Set a Precedent for What Blues – and, in Turn, Rock and Roll – Could Be

By Guitar Player Staff published

A part-time preacher, the blues legend – born Edward James House Jr. – influenced generations

Lead Belly playin 12-string acoustic guitar

He Escaped From a Chain Gang, Charmed His Way out of Prison, and Was Immortalized in Music History: How Lead Belly Became a Guitar Legend

By Guitar Player Staff published

The forefather of rock and roll was charming and dangerous in equal measure

Howlin' Wolf (1910 - 1976) performs at the Cafe Au Go Go in New York City, 6th December 1967.

Watch Howlin’ Wolf’s Electrifying “Smokestack Lightning” Performance Featuring Hubert Sumlin on Guitar

By Guitar Player Staff published

Video The biggest, baddest voice of the Chicago blues scene, Wolf was a far-reaching inspiration

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Sister Rosetta Tharpe photographed at Wilbraham Road Station in Manchester, England, while filming the Granada Television special Blues And Gospel Train, on May 7, 1964.

Watch Sister Rosetta Tharpe’s Iconic "Didn't It Rain?" Live Performance

By Guitar Player Staff published

Video The guitar heroine blazed a trail for Chuck Berry and the first wave of rock and roll

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Kaki King performs at the Everest Awakening: A Prayer For Nepal And Beyond at City Winery on May 17, 2015 in New York City.

Five Reasons Kaki King Is a Guitar Legend

By Guitar Player Staff published

In King’s hands, the guitar becomes a canvas for a revolutionary reassertion of the instrument’s role in music and art

Fretboard

Learn All the Notes on the Fretboard in This Easy-to-Follow Lesson

By Guitar Player Staff last updated

Elevate your playing with this simple guide to fretboard memorization

Blues Hall of Fame inductee Charlie Musselwhite, guitar detail, performs onstage at Lisa Smith Wengler Center for the Arts at Pepperdine on January 17, 2023 in Malibu, California.

The Mixolydian Blues Scale Could Be the Most Useful Scale of All

By Guitar Player Staff last updated

This scale reigns supreme as the chief source for carving those major/minor blues-based licks that sound so good over dominant 7th chords

The cover of Guitar Player's Jeff Beck tribute issue

April 2023 Guitar Player Lesson Audio

By Guitar Player Staff published

Jesse Gress performs with Todd Rundgren at Center Stage on February 12, 2016 in Atlanta, Georgia.

Esteemed ‘Guitar Player’ Contributor Jesse Gress Succumbs to Long-Term Illness

By Guitar Player Staff published

The uber-talented Todd Rundgren guitarist and music educator passes away at home aged 67

Roy Clark plays a Fender Jaguar in 1964 on 'The Jimmy Dean Show'

Watch Roy Clark’s Mesmerizing Rendition of “Folsom Prison Blues” on ‘The Jimmy Dean Show’

By Guitar Player Staff published

Video The guitar star makes great use of a Fender Jaguar to nail his own interpretation of Johnny Cash’s signature song in this classic TV moment from 1964

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