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Guitar World is a monthly music
Music

Music is an art form whose media is sound organized in time. Common elements of music are pitch , rhythm , dynamics , and the sonic qualities of timbre and texture ....
 magazine
Magazine

for quarterly in Heraldry see Quartering Magazines, periodicals, glossies or serials are publications, generally published on a regular schedule, containing a variety of Article , generally financed by advertising, by a purchase price, by pre-paid magazine subscription, or all three....
 devoted to guitarist
Guitarist

A guitarist is a musician who plays the guitar. Guitarists may perform solo pieces or play with ensembles and bands of a wide variety of genres....
s. It contains original interviews, album and gear reviews and guitar and bass tablature
Tablature

Tablature is a form of musical notation, which tells players where to place their fingers on a particular instrument rather than which pitches to play....
 of approximately five songs each month. The magazine is published 13 times per year (12 monthly issues and a holiday issue).

The magazine debuted in July 1980, with Johnny Winter
Johnny Winter

John Dawson "Johnny" Winter III is an United States blues guitarist, Vocalist and Record producer.Johnny and Edgar Winter were nurtured at an early age by their parents in their musical pursuits....
 appearing on the cover. In its 28 year history, Guitar World has had interviews with some of the most influential guitarists in rock, including Ritchie Blackmore
Ritchie Blackmore

| Name= Ritchie Blackmore| Img = Ritchie Blackmore signing.jpg| Img_capt = Ritchie Blackmore, right, giving autographs...
, Jeff Beck
Jeff Beck

Geoffrey Arnold "Jeff" Beck is an England rock music guitarist. He was one of the three noted guitarists — the others being Eric Clapton and Jimmy Page — to have played with The Yardbirds....
, Arthur Rhames
Arthur Rhames

Arthur Rhames was a guitarist, tenor saxophonist, pianist and melodica stylist, Krishna devotee, and a legend of New York City avant-garde jazz....
, Jimmy Page
Jimmy Page

James Patrick Page Order of the British Empire is an English guitarist, composer and record producer. He began his career as a studio session guitarist in London and was subsequently a member of The Yardbirds from 1966 to 1968, after which he co-founded the English rock band Led Zeppelin....
, Eric Clapton
Eric Clapton

Eric Patrick Clapton Order of the British Empire is an English blues-rock guitarist, singer, songwriter and composer. He is "probably most famous for his mastery of the Stratocaster guitar." Clapton has been inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a member of the Yardbirds, of Cream , and as a solo performer, being the only person to...
, Joe Satriani
Joe Satriani

Joseph "Satch" Satriani is an United States multiple nominated Grammy Award multi-instrumentalist, best known as an instrumental rock guitarist....
, Steve Vai
Steve Vai

Steven "Steve" Siro Vai is an United States instrumental rock guitarist, songwriter, vocalist, record producer, and actor. After starting his professional career as a music transcriptionist for Frank Zappa, Vai would also record and tour in Zappa's backing band starting in 1980....
 and Eddie Van Halen
Eddie Van Halen

Edward Lodewijk "Eddie" Van Halen , is a Dutch-American guitarist, keyboardist, songwriter and music producer, most famous as the lead guitarist and co-founder of the hard rock band Van Halen....
 who has been featured on the cover 16 times, and twice on subsidiary magazine Guitar Legends.

In the January 2005 issue, Guitar World began selling some issues of the magazine with CD-ROMs containing video lessons, gear demonstrations and other self-produced and third-party content.






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Guitar World is a monthly music
Music

Music is an art form whose media is sound organized in time. Common elements of music are pitch , rhythm , dynamics , and the sonic qualities of timbre and texture ....
 magazine
Magazine

for quarterly in Heraldry see Quartering Magazines, periodicals, glossies or serials are publications, generally published on a regular schedule, containing a variety of Article , generally financed by advertising, by a purchase price, by pre-paid magazine subscription, or all three....
 devoted to guitarist
Guitarist

A guitarist is a musician who plays the guitar. Guitarists may perform solo pieces or play with ensembles and bands of a wide variety of genres....
s. It contains original interviews, album and gear reviews and guitar and bass tablature
Tablature

Tablature is a form of musical notation, which tells players where to place their fingers on a particular instrument rather than which pitches to play....
 of approximately five songs each month. The magazine is published 13 times per year (12 monthly issues and a holiday issue).

The magazine debuted in July 1980, with Johnny Winter
Johnny Winter

John Dawson "Johnny" Winter III is an United States blues guitarist, Vocalist and Record producer.Johnny and Edgar Winter were nurtured at an early age by their parents in their musical pursuits....
 appearing on the cover. In its 28 year history, Guitar World has had interviews with some of the most influential guitarists in rock, including Ritchie Blackmore
Ritchie Blackmore

| Name= Ritchie Blackmore| Img = Ritchie Blackmore signing.jpg| Img_capt = Ritchie Blackmore, right, giving autographs...
, Jeff Beck
Jeff Beck

Geoffrey Arnold "Jeff" Beck is an England rock music guitarist. He was one of the three noted guitarists — the others being Eric Clapton and Jimmy Page — to have played with The Yardbirds....
, Arthur Rhames
Arthur Rhames

Arthur Rhames was a guitarist, tenor saxophonist, pianist and melodica stylist, Krishna devotee, and a legend of New York City avant-garde jazz....
, Jimmy Page
Jimmy Page

James Patrick Page Order of the British Empire is an English guitarist, composer and record producer. He began his career as a studio session guitarist in London and was subsequently a member of The Yardbirds from 1966 to 1968, after which he co-founded the English rock band Led Zeppelin....
, Eric Clapton
Eric Clapton

Eric Patrick Clapton Order of the British Empire is an English blues-rock guitarist, singer, songwriter and composer. He is "probably most famous for his mastery of the Stratocaster guitar." Clapton has been inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a member of the Yardbirds, of Cream , and as a solo performer, being the only person to...
, Joe Satriani
Joe Satriani

Joseph "Satch" Satriani is an United States multiple nominated Grammy Award multi-instrumentalist, best known as an instrumental rock guitarist....
, Steve Vai
Steve Vai

Steven "Steve" Siro Vai is an United States instrumental rock guitarist, songwriter, vocalist, record producer, and actor. After starting his professional career as a music transcriptionist for Frank Zappa, Vai would also record and tour in Zappa's backing band starting in 1980....
 and Eddie Van Halen
Eddie Van Halen

Edward Lodewijk "Eddie" Van Halen , is a Dutch-American guitarist, keyboardist, songwriter and music producer, most famous as the lead guitarist and co-founder of the hard rock band Van Halen....
 who has been featured on the cover 16 times, and twice on subsidiary magazine Guitar Legends.

In the January 2005 issue, Guitar World began selling some issues of the magazine with CD-ROMs containing video lessons, gear demonstrations and other self-produced and third-party content. Magazines that contain the disc sell for three dollars more ($7.99 rather than $4.99) and are packaged in plastic sleeves to prevent theft of the CD-ROM. Each issue used to come with a centerfold
Centerfold

The centerfold of a magazine refers to a gatefolded Spread , usually a portrait such as a pin-up or a nude, inserted in the middle of the publication, or to the model featured in the portrait....
 poster of an artist or band featured in the magazine for that month, but these are no longer included (magazines have stayed full price). In 2007 Guitar World started to produce a new DVD magazine
DVD magazine

A DVD magazine is a magazine that collects most of its content on DVD, or is issued in a DVD-only format. It was invented by Isak Bini who published the first dvd magazine: City and You DVD magazine....
 Guitar World presents...Guitar DVD

As of the January 2009 issue, Guitar World is including columns from its now defunct sister magazines Guitar One and Guitar World Acoustic. Some of the columnists include:
  • Shred Alert by Paul Gilbert
    Paul Gilbert

    Paul Brandon Gilbert is an United States musician. He is well known for his guitar work with Racer X and Mr. Big , as well as many solo albums....
     of Racer X
  • The Alchemical Guitarist by Richard Lloyd of Television
    Television (band)

    Television, formed in New York City in 1973, is an United States rock music band. Although Television never had more than a cult audience in their American homeland, they achieved significant commercial success in Europe and today are widely regarded as one of the key founders of punk rock....
  • Time to Burn by Michael Angelo Batio
    Michael Angelo Batio

    Michael Angelo Batio is an United States virtuoso guitarist and columnist from Chicago, Illinois. Considered to be one of the fastest guitarists in the world, Batio was voted the "No....
  • Practice What You Preach by Eric Peterson
    Eric Peterson

    Eric Neal Peterson is a Canada stage and television actor, known for his roles in three major Canadian series – Street Legal , Corner Gas and This is Wonderland....
     of Testament
    Testament (band)

    Testament is an American thrash metal band from San Francisco, formed in 1983. Testament has two Top 40 albums and one Top 50 album to its credit in the UK....
  • Left-Hand Path by Ihsahn
    Ihsahn

    Ihsahn is a Norway composer, guitar, bass guitar, Musical Keyboard player and vocalist. He is best known for his work with Norwegian black metal band Emperor ....
     of Emperor
    Emperor

    An emperor is a monarch, usually the sovereign ruler of an empire or another type of imperial realm. Empress is the female equivalent. As a title, "empress" may indicate the wife of an emperor or a woman who rules in her own right ....
  • All That Jazz by Vic Juris
    Vic Juris

    Victor E. Jurusz, Jr., known professionally as Vic Juris is an American jazz guitarist.Juris played with Lyn Christie early in the 1970s and made his first recordings with Eric Kloss in 1975....
  • Talkin' Blues by Keith Wyatt

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