In the new Guitar Legends: Play Like a Guitar Wizard, guitar legend Steve Vai checks in from Eastern Europe to provide some insider tips on becoming the ultimate guitar wizard.
Other features include:
Practicing Voodoo: So you want to play like Jimi Hendrix. Celebrated authority Andy Aledort shows you how to get experienced in these easy steps.
Zakk Wylde's Guitar Boot Camp: OK, maggot, fall in and let the supreme sergeant of shred, Zakk Wylde, show you how to be all you can be with his 100 percent brewtal guitar boot camp!
Walk on the Wild Slide: Cosmic Indian ragas. Otherworldly sacred steel licks. Celestial harmonics. Allman Brothers' master of the slide, Derek Trucks, offers wisdom in the key of open E.
Also, shred master Joe Satriani saves the day with an in-depth lesson in the art and science of playing rock lead guitar.
And much more!
This new issue of Guitar Legends is available now at the Guitar World Online Store for $7.99!
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Guitar Strength: Journey to the Core of Zakk Wylde’s Pentatonic Shred (4/24/2013) With the release of Ozzy Osbourne’s No Rest for the Wicked in 1988, a sound was unleashed on the world that changed the lexicon of rock guitar and redefined the meaning of “Guitar God." Plucked from anonymity in Jackson, New Jersey, at age 20,... |
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Charity Auction to Feature Guitars Signed — or Owned — by Steve Vai, Van Halen, Slash, Rush and More (4/18/2013) More than 40 autographed guitars will be up for grabs this weekend at the 2013 Stars Guitars charity auction in Dearborn, Michigan. Proceeds from the annual event will benefit the Charles A. Main, MD Pediatric Cancer Survivor Scholarship Fund o... |
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Zakk Wylde: Guitar Boot Camp (4/10/2013) Okay, maggots, fall in and let the supreme sergeant of shred, Zakk Wylde, show you how to be all you can be with his 100 percent brewtal guitar boot camp! In this classic Guitar World Berzerker Boot Camp lesson from 2004, Zakk tells the story... |
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Interview: Bassist Billy Sheehan Talks Jimi Hendrix, Steve Vai and New NIACIN Album, 'Krush' (4/1/2013) From his early days with Talas and David Lee Roth to his time spent with Mr. Big and Steve Vai, bassist Billy Sheehan has performed and recorded with some gigantic names in rock. But no other outlet allows Sheehan to flex his bass muscle quite l... |
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Zakk Wylde Teams Up with Grill ‘Em All Restaurant to Create Berzerker Burger (3/21/2013) Zakk Wylde has teamed up with Grill ‘Em All to create the Berzerker Burger, a hamburger with two blackened half-pound patties, Eagle Rock Solidarity battered onion rings, white truffle pomme frites, chipotle ketchup, cheddar and thick-cut bacon,... |
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Zakk Wylde Announces West Coast Solo Acoustic Tour (3/15/2013) Zakk Wylde has announced a West Coast solo acoustic tour. The tour, which kicks off April 21 and ends May 1, ties in with the April 9 paperback release of his book, Bringing Metal to the Children: The Complete Berzerker’s Guide to World Tour Dom... |
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Zakk Wylde's Book, 'Bringing Metal to the Children,' Coming to Paperback April 9 (3/8/2013) Zakk Wylde's book, Bringing Metal to the Children: The Complete Berzerker’s Guide to World Tour Domination, will be available in paperback April 9. In the book, the Black Label Society guitarist and longtime Ozzy Osbourne axeman shares what rea... |
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Videos: 2Cellos Perform "Purple Haze," Plus "Highway to Hell" with Steve Vai (2/21/2013) Check out this cover of Jimi Hendrix's "Purple Haze" by 2Cellos. These guys might look familiar; they're the Croatian cellists who had a taste of online success when their dueling-cellos version of Michael Jackson's "Smooth Criminal" went viral ... |
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Zakk Wylde: my top 5 not-so-guilty pleasures of all time (2/8/2013) Read more about Zakk Wylde: my top 5 not-so-guilty pleasures of all time at MusicRadar.com |
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Zakk Wylde's Brewtality: Pentatonics — Connecting the Dots and Climbing the Neck (1/22/2013) In another entry from his classic Guitar World column, "Brewtality," Zakk Wylde shows you how to connect the dots and move up the neck while playing pentatonic patterns. Welcome to Brewtality No. 3. I’m writing this month’s installment while out... |
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Hole Notes: Zakk Wylde's "Unplugged" Riffs and Hybrid-Picked, Acoustic Shred (1/10/2013) As the Black Label Society’s leader (and Ozzy’s guitarist for more years than anyone else), Zakk Wylde has become infamous for his brew-tal riffage and lethal lead style. Remarkably, though, he also has a soul-stirring softer side. Numerous acou... |
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Seven-String Summit: Korn's Munky and Incubus' Mike Einziger Worship at the Feet of Steve Vai (11/28/2012) Here's a feature from the February 1998 issue of Guitar World, which features a conversation between GW, Steve Vai, Munky of Korn and Mike Einziger of Incubus. To see the cover, and all the GW covers from 1998, check out this photo gallery. A fe... |
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Interview: Steve Vai and Tosin Abasi (11/6/2012) Tosin Abasi strides into a Hollywood photo studio dressed in a crisp striped jersey, jeans and a pair of horn-rimmed glasses that make him look a bit like the young Dizzy Gillespie. He’s toting a pair of the Ibanez eight-string guitars that hav... |
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Interview: Zakk Wylde Discusses His Signature Edition Guitar Apprentice Instructional DVDs (11/1/2012) Zakk Wylde has long been known for his guitar pyrotechnics, signature look and over-the-top personality. Beneath all that, however, lies Zakk Wylde the die-hard guitar ambassador. Through his instructional videos, tab books and Guitar World col... |
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Steve Vai on tour stories, avoiding supergroups and lazer fingers (11/1/2012) It's probably fair to say that Steve Vai knows what he's talking about when it comes to touring. Having famously cut his teeth with the some of rock's more excessive types - among them Frank Zappa and David Lee Roth – he's spent a large chunk of... |
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