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July 2020

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July 14
- Alain Johannes: "I love the immediacy of acoustic instruments but I love the crazy worlds you can create with pedals - all I’m looking for is honesty and rawness"
July 13
- Gary Lucas: "The guitar is like an extension of my nervous system - I try to play what I feel and transmit it"
- Kristiine Silinja: "I love exploration, adventures, and freedom. All that comes with a six-string bass"
July 10
- The best flatwound bass strings 2020: how to choose the right flatwounds for you
- Joe Goldman: “I use this piece-of-crap $25 guitar pedal that sounds like a rusted chisel for all the Code Orange stuff”
July 9
- Best wah pedals 2020: add an essential tone-shaping effect to your pedalboard
- The secrets behind Jack White's guitar tone on the White Stripes' Seven Nation Army
- Brian May: "I will never claim to be a great guitarist in the sense of a virtuoso. I just try to play from my heart"
- The 1975's Adam Hann talks embracing heavy riffs, recording on the road and why he loves John Petrucci's signature model
- The story of Peter Green's Fleetwood Mac, as told by John Mayall, Mike Vernon and Green himself
- Harkin: "I’ve been playing guitar long enough to know that if something has P-90s, it sounds more like me"
July 8
- 10 best beginner bass guitars 2020: our pick of the best four-string bass guitars for beginners
- Guitar Gabby: "Understanding where guitar music came from helps young black women like me, out here paving our own paths"
- 12 best guitar cables 2020: top instrument cables for acoustic, bass and electric guitars
- Ida Nielsen: "Prince always pushed us to be better - now I want to make sure I’m the best musician I can be"
July 7
- Warbringer: "We’re not walking on eggshells, as far as the riffs we write. We don't go, 'It’s gotta be thrash!'"
- Best headphones for guitar amps 2020: practice in peace with the best guitar amp headphones
July 6
- The 100 greatest guitarists of all time
- Best beginner guitar amps 2020: top guitar amplifiers for beginners
- Higher Power: "You can pull guitar ideas from anywhere - even grime music"
July 3
- Best acoustic guitar amps 2020: let your acoustic guitar tone shine
- Darryl Jones: "The Rolling Stones are pretty cool about letting me play what I want - they trust that I'll find the essence of the songs"
July 2
- Everything you need to know about guitar amps
- The history of instrumental rock
- Jakub Zytecki: "I don’t really listen to guitar music - I’m not even sure if I like it!"
July 1
- The secrets behind Zakk Wylde's guitar tone on Ozzy Osbourne's No More Tears
- The 12 best guitar amps 2020: tube, solid-state and modeling amplifiers for all levels and budgets
- The 8 best amps for metal 2020: the loudest and proudest metal amps from PRS, Orange, Marshall and more
- 9 best boost pedals 2020: including the best clean boost pedals for guitar
- Green Day's Mike Dirnt: “My wife bought me a ’58 Olympic White Fender P-Bass - it eats my friends alive that I play it live”