Guitar Techniques

Tap the links Finding your way around the magazine is easy. Tapping the feature titles on the cover or the contents page, takes you straight two the relevant articles. Any web and email links in the text are tappable too Animated tab & audio All the

READY TO SUBSCRIBE? www.magazines direct.com WHILE AMERICA is often remembered for hamburgers, highways and Hollywood, it is music that typically resonates as its most revered essence. Blues, jazz, and rock and roll are all primarily considered as

Each transcription is broken down into two parts... TAB Under the musical stave, Tab is an aid to show you where to put your fingers on the fretboard. The six horizontal lines represent the six strings on a guitar – the numbers on the strings are fre

GT: Do you have atype of pick that you can’t live without? CM: Not really, I use a standard medium gauge by Dunlop. Most players I know use a heavy pick but I always like to have a bit of flex in my pick. GT: If you had to give up all your pedals but

Today we’ll look at some of the alternatives should you wish to replace ‘standard’ open chords with something more vibrant, to use alongside standard voicings in a two-guitar line-up, or as an overdub. The most reliable way is to know which notes mak

As my son Josh would say - “Don’t get me wrong”, but experience is a priceless commodity that embodies one significant drawback. And that, dear reader, is the learning that there's an infinite number of ways to screw up a recording session. Maybe mor

GT: What is it about guitar instrumentals that appeals to you? MP: I’ve always loved the freedom of improvised music, and there’s something to the flow of a great improvised guitar solo that I find really appealing. GT: What can an instrumental provi

This month’s piece comes in the form of a short prelude from Coleccion 8a de Ejercicios y Preludios para Guitarra, which is an unpublished collection of 15 exercises and preludes by the 19th-century Spanish guitarist, composer, and educator, José Fer

Radiohead made a huge impact on music in the latter years of the 20th century and into the 21st. Along with bands like U2 and REM, they recorded some of the most classic songs in recent memory. Formed in Oxfordshire, England in the mid 1980s by schoo

Since the release of the Kill Em’ All album in 1983, Metallica have established themselves as the undeniable architects of the thrash metal subgenre. Metallica’s music has real purpose and authority, and is held in high esteem by many music greats ou

Allan Holdsworth was born in Bradford, Yorkshire in 1946. An early member of bands like Soft Machine and UK, in the 80s he released a slew of masterpiece albums that changed the landscape of jazz and fusion guitar. His style was so influential that h

Brian Stetzer revitalised the rockabilly scene with his band The Stray Cats in the early 1980s, during the time he was living in the UK. After the initial success of the band and his various solo projects, Setzer had a fantastic second wind with his

This month I’m starting a new series focusing on the acoustic legends from the 1960s folk, rock and pop scenes. We start off with Bob Dylan, an artist who emerged as a folk musician but had an impact way beyond the confines of the genre. Robert Zimme

Welcome to another column from the folks at JTCguitar. If you want to be a master of metal soloing, you need to work HARD at your picking technique. Legato and tapping are of course great, but when you want to dig in and add real impact to your solos

Americana is a century-old musical melting pot where country, blues, folk and bluegrass collide. Originally this music would have been performed on banjos, fiddles and mandolins with guitars arriving later. The earliest known guitarists in this style