“What I learned at GIT.” Jennifer Batten delivers three must-know fusion licks

The first woman to graduate from the famed Guitar Institute of Technology, she reflects on her time there as the school's first female instructor

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“He was angry I’d given away a No. 1 hit.” Neil Diamond says he was fired five times before the Monkees scored a hit with his song “I’m a Believer”

Diamond, who returns this week with a new album, said he nearly offered the song to a country star before the pop group made it their biggest hit

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“It was such great stuff.” Steve Vai says he’s heard Eddie Van Halen’s unreleased recordings

Vai recalls sitting in Eddie’s studio surrounded by unheard music — and explains why the guitarist believed Van Halen already was his solo career.

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“I was like, ‘Ed, you better stop smoking.’” Valerie Bertinelli recalls the night she met Eddie Van Halen — and the “tragic, scary” years that followed

The actress says their whirlwind romance quickly collided with addiction, fame and the habits that ultimately damaged the guitarist’s health

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Win tickets to see Eric Johnson in Northern California at Guitar Player Presents

The Texaphonic 2026 tour touches down at the Guild Theatre on the San Francisco Peninsula, Sunday, May 10

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Colonial Arts Center launches $5 guitar lessons May 7 - My Buckhannon

Colonial Arts Center launches $5 guitar lessons May 7  My Buckhannon

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“It sounds like a terrible B-flick horror soundtrack.” Eddie Van Halen on the night he got drunk and wrecked Marvin Hamlisch’s piano

During a late-night experiment in a rented Malibu home, the guitarist scraped the composer’s Yamaha grand with forks and knives — and turned the chaos into a track later used on Van Halen’s ‘Balance’

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