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- April 29
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- Best cheap acoustic guitars 2024: 7 budget acoustics with genuine pedigree
- Download and stream the audio from Total Guitar 358
- Flea: “I think about playing bass as like a river. I can unleash it however it needs to go – like violent rapids, or a calm, still pool”
- Billy Strings: “There was a guitar hanging on the wall with a light shining down on it, like light from heaven – and I needed that guitar”
- Download and stream the audio from Guitar Techniques 335
- April 28
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- Ball Park Music: “We just go with whatever feels right at any given moment”
- How LA ‘junk’ luthier Reuben Cox’s rubber bridge innovations redefined the sound of indie guitar
- Flamenco guitarist El Amir reveals how he ended up playing on the latest James Bond movie, No Time to Die
- The 30 greatest rock guitar albums of 1992
- April 27
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- Ace Frehley and Slash on their love of the Les Paul, British blues-rock, and their unique approaches to the guitar
- The genius of John McGeoch: John Frusciante, Johnny Marr and more pay tribute to the unsung hero of post-punk guitar
- Best high-end bass guitars 2024: our pick of premium basses from Rickenbacker, Fender, PRS, Fodera and more
- Turnstile’s Pat McCrory: “A lot of what we’re trying to do is capture that perfect take – we go into it as hard and fast as we can”
- Spotlight: Samuel Tye of The Faim
- How to get the best tone out of P-90 pickups
- April 26
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- Best distortion pedals for metal: standalone and stacked gain stages, plus 'amps in a box'
- Widowspeak: “In every little lick, you can hear the millions of things you’ve heard before. At a certain point, you develop your own way of doing that”
- PRS SE Silver Sky vs Fender Player Stratocaster: which is better?
- Rob Balducci: “If you're struggling with mental health, try to harness some of the energy you have and focus it toward playing an instrument”
- Danny Bryant shares his greatest gear hits and misses – and his guitar shopping advice
- April 25
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- Ann Wilson on enlisting Kenny Wayne Shepherd, Warren Haynes and Tom Bukovac for new solo album Fierce Bliss
- While She Sleeps' Sean Long: “The guitar should enhance your ability to express yourself – it’s just a piece of wood with some electrics in it. We are the real magic here”
- The genius of Charles Mingus: activist, writer and jazz legend
- April 24
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- April 20
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- Adam Shoenfeld: "As a kid, I exhausted technique to where, as a session musician, I started playing for the song"
- The Darkness’s Frankie Poullain: “If you go too posh with distortion, it gets too precise and nice. It’s got to be a bit nasty and a bit wrong”
- Simon McBride on joining Deep Purple: “Steve Morse is an amazing guitarist, so I know I’ve got big boots to fill…”
- April 19
- April 18
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- Korn's James ‘Munky’ Shaffer and Brian ‘Head’ Welch: "We love making weird noises – filling that synthy space using our guitars is something we love doing"
- Léa Sen: “I struggle writing melodies... but when I have a guitar in my hands, the way they work together just comes naturally”
- Stuart Hamm on 5 of his best bass albums
- Short Stack: “It’s the best thing in the world to be able to play music with people”
- April 15
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- Sue Foley: “Everybody who plays the blues has their own take on it”
- How the weight of your electric guitar affects its performance and build
- Ocean Grove: “I just want to be able to write a riff, hit record and play – nothing fancy”
- The secrets behind Eric Clapton’s guitar tone on Cream’s Sunshine of Your Love
- Spotlight: Romero
- April 14
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- Australian Guitar x Full Tilt 2022: Reliqa
- Ritchie Blackmore: "It's much easier to flow across the strings on a Gibson. Fenders have more tension, so you have to fight them a little bit"
- How Dead Sara take Joni Mitchell’s approach to alternate tunings and apply it to the ferocious world of rock ’n’ roll
- How open-back and closed-back guitar cabs affect your tone
- Mark Engles: "We wanted the sound to evolve, but you’ve got to keep those roots. It’s still big and heavy… we still love that"
- April 13
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- Boss Katana vs Fender Mustang: which amp is right for you?
- Spotlight: Deena Lynch, aka Jaguar Jonze
- A guide to Slash’s forgotten guitars
- "Double-thumbing is where I use my thumb for up and downstrokes, similar to using a guitar pick": Bass legends Victor Wooten and Stanley Clarke in conversation
- The strange, enduring magic of the Roland RE-201 Space Echo
- April 12
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- Billy Bragg: “Most of my chord shapes are fists. It’s just the way I play – I’m hanging on for dear life”
- Nergal: “I use a Peavey 6505+ because for touring you need a Kalashnikov... and Peavey are the Kalashnikov of amps”
- Joshua Crumbly talks playing with Kamasi Washington and Leon Bridges, and gigging jazz standards at 10 years old
- April 11
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- The history of the P-90, the most versatile pickup ever made
- Robert Fripp’s 20 greatest guitar moments
- Thurston Moore: “I’ve always liked that purity of guitar/amp action. The more I can get to that, the better I feel”
- Gang Of Youths: “While I’ve grown so much musically, I’ve also been coming into my own as an adult”
- April 8
- April 7
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- Australian Guitar x Full Tilt 2022: Alpha Wolf
- Jennylee: “Bass is a really easy instrument to learn, but it’s a really hard instrument to get good at”
- The Regrettes' Genessa Gariano: "There’s a power I feel when I’m holding a guitar. It lets me be something other than what I am physically"
- Zakk Wylde: “From Paul Kossoff to David Gilmour, everyone’s personality is in their phrasing”
- Eric Krasno: “John Mayer sent me one of his Silver Sky guitars and I loved it. It got me back into the single-coil ‘Strat’ world”
- April 6
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- Joe Satriani: “I’m not trying to sell myself as a guitar technician. I write songs because I want them to become the soundtrack to people’s lives”
- Robben Ford: “Tone has always been number one to me. It needs to sound good first – otherwise, who cares what the notes are?”
- Spotlight: Christos Athanasias of Devil Electric
- April 5
- April 4
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- Steve Vai names 5 contemporary guitarists who are taking the instrument to the next level
- Molly Tuttle: “I don’t want to play bluegrass to a click. It’s such an organic music – I wanted to get the feeling of people just jamming together”
- How to reduce guitar string noise
- Pond: “I think you have to switch up the recording process every now and again”
- April 2
- April 1
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- We went guitar shopping with Slash – here's what happened
- Download and stream the audio from Guitar Techniques 334
- Dumble amps: the legacy and legend
- Best 3/4 acoustic guitars: smaller bodied options from Taylor, Martin, Fender and more
- William Crighton: “I have to try and get it in the moment, otherwise I kind of go backwards”
