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May 2020

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May 29
- Olivia Jean: "I always wanted to play a Gretsch 6120, but with the amount of dirt I use, that was never going to work!"
- The secrets behind Prince's tone on Let's Go Crazy
May 28
- Tony Iommi: "I've got hundreds of riffs - new music is going to happen"
- Slash dishes the dirt on his sessions for Ozzy Osbourne's Ordinary Man
- The history of the Gibson ES-330
May 27
- The Beatles' break-up in 1970 yielded some of its members' best work - and these 9 albums prove it
- Payton Smith: "It’s really important to me that people realize I’m a guitarist as much as a singer"
May 26
- Metallica, Megadeth and Def Leppard guitar techs discuss survival on the road and life 20 feet away from stardom
- Fiokee on how he became Africa's most in-demand guitarist and the secret to writing guitar parts that connect
May 25
- Mike Mushok: "If there’s gonna be a solo, it needs to make the song better - not just, ‘Look what I can do!'"
- Adam 'Nergal' Darski: "If you have something to say, you'll say it through your instrument regardless of whether you know theory"
May 22
- The genius of Andy Gill: paying tribute to the post-punk pioneer who influenced a generation of guitarists
- Jared Dines' top 10 tips for beginner guitarists
May 21
- Best Gibson SGs: Our budget-spanning picks of Gibson’s famous Solid Guitar
- Kim Gordon: "If dissonance is something we added to the vocabulary of indie rock, from a legacy standpoint, that’s pretty cool"
- Duff McKagan and Chad Smith discuss Andrew Watt's touch of genius on Ozzy Osbourne's Ordinary Man
May 20
- Tash Sultana: "I can play different instruments, but my home is the guitar"
- Matt Bellamy: “As long as the guitar can keep up with making interesting sounds, it will always remain relevant”
May 19
- The greatest 12-string guitar songs of all time
- The secrets behind Tony Iommi's classic Black Sabbath guitar tone
- Audio Kitchen’s Steve Crow: "Distortion is something you can hide behind. When you dial it back, it forces you to up your game"
- Nick Johnston, Lari Basilio and Plini on the genius of Joe Satriani
May 18
- Jeff Schroedl: "I like to think of my style as guitar gumbo - I focus on the things that set me apart"
- Slash and Gibson's Cesar Gueikian share the origins of the new Slash Collection of Les Pauls and J-45 acoustics
- Gretsch Electromatic Jet review round-up
- Jonathan Wilson: “Timing and rhythm is what makes you money, not speed and tons and tons of notes”
May 15
- Brothers Osborne: "I can’t just think about blowing guitarists away when I come up with a solo - I try to think big-picture"
May 14
- Seafret's Harry Draper: “We wrote Oceans in an hour after being in the pub. Now we go all over the world and play it”
- Nita Strauss: "No matter your skill level, you can always improve on your own style and personality as a guitar player"
- 7 creative ways to use a looper pedal
- Classic gear: Hofner Verithin
- 5 guitars that defined Billie Joe Armstrong's career in punk
May 13
- Timo Somers: "The latest Delain album has more of a guitaristic eye and is more my vision"
- Ozric Tentacles’ Ed Wynne: "George Harrison used to come to our house for dinner and sit there playing guitar!"
May 12
- The inside story of The Beatles' turbulent break-up - and what came next
- The best blues guitar gear: get the sound of your heroes with these essential guitars, amps and pedals
- David Rainger: "Do things the ‘wrong’ way if you like - then you’ll come up with the best stuff creatively"
May 11
- Joey Landreth: “The first time I heard Derek Trucks was like, ‘Oh, s**t. That is really inspiring!’”
- Everything you need to know about power amp types
- Jäger Volant's Ronnie Day: "The key to a great guitar sound is in how you play and how you phrase"
May 8
- The hunt for alternative tonewoods: how guitar luthiers are looking to save the planet
May 7
- Highly Suspect: "Basically every guitar we use onstage is something we've built!"
- Classic gear: Ibanez Tube Screamer
- Tom Morello’s wrong: young people are practicing guitar - but they’re trying to forge careers, too
May 6
- John Mayer’s guitar gear: what you need to nail the super-smooth six-stringer’s sweet blues tones
- 12 mind-blowing guitarists reveal the techniques they struggled to master, and how you can improve your guitar playing faster
May 5
- Lettuce's Adam “Shmeeans” Smirnoff talks Resonate, approaching guitar like a percussionist, and why he plays a Les Paul for funk
- Here are the 6 fresh guitar artists you need to hear this month (May 2020)
- Jonathon Long: "I love Teles because they're virtually indestructible - if a boat broke down I'd use mine as a paddle!"
May 4
- Mick Mars: "I have about 100 guitars. I like to have a lot of different things to play around with"
- In a time of crisis and isolation, here's why we need guitar more than ever
- Cesar Gueikian reveals the inside story behind Gibson's exhaustive Tony Iommi 'Monkey' SG replica
- Mark Morton: "I think it’s healthy to write on acoustic, because it doesn’t lend itself to the technical focus of electric"
May 1
- How great guitarists can inspire - rather than intimidate - your playing