As Fender reboots its near-forgotten Lead Series with some striking colour options, we ask whether these stripped-back strummers are good enough to justify their revival.

This stripped-down and hot-rodded Gretsch solidbody has a tempting price tag to match.

Blackstar has teamed up with the singer-songwriter Jon Gomm to create a smart new solution for gigging musicians. Find out how it stacks up.

Made in China using German engineering and American electronics, are these models a match made in heaven or diabolus in musica?

What's the best way to get good tone when staying home?

Take a lesson from these top-notch guitarists while staying at home.

We show you how to tackle two of the main offenders when it comes to tuning woes: the infamous Bigsby vibrato and the tuners themselves.

From smart routing devices to cable management systems, these are the essential bits of kit you need to build a pro pedalboard.

We take a look at the post-Syd Barrett days of Pink Floyd in this tutorial.

The Led Zeppelin icon’s influence on rock guitar is impossible to overstate, but at the core of his signature style were some classic blues fundamentals.

When Pink Floyd started out in the psychedelic mid 1960s, they were playing clubs, led by Syd Barrett on guitar. But once David Gilmour took over, they evolved into a stadium-rock band and began crafting extravagant concept albums. Now one of the biggest-selling acts of all time, you can bet they knew how to write an interesting chord sequence.

Now that you’ve mastered the basics of the pentatonic scale, it’s time to look at the masters themselves to see how the most legendary blues players utilise the shapes we’ve learned in their own playing. First up, it’s Old Slowhand.