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September 2024

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September 20
- The acoustic guitar is one of the world’s most versatile instruments – and these licks prove it can handle anything from folk to metal
September 19
- “Jeff was extremely adept with a bottleneck, but he could also manipulate the whammy to get a slide effect when the mood took him”: How Jeff Beck made his whammy bar sound like a slide – his soloing secrets revealed
September 16
- Introducing Rhythmically Dependent Alternate Picking, the lead technique that makes fast guitar lines flow better than ever before
September 13
- He's the Grammy-winning Ibanez signature artist who has been setting the standard for jazz-fusion guitar since the mid-'70s – his style is so iconic, he even has a lick named after him. Learn how Pat Metheny's soloing approach can elevate your jazz game
September 12
- “This way, there’s a straight-line connection between the solo and the song itself”: Trying to craft a memorable solo? Revisit hooks from a song’s melody
- “The playing is fiery, the lines are emotionally powerful and the melodic ideas and phrasing are perfect”: Joe Bonamassa pays tribute to his favorite guitar player of all time
- Open Csus2 chords: 5 shapes you need to know
September 11
- Cook up your own “musical gumbo” with this lesson in how to use bluegrass alternate picking in rock
- They may have lit the fuse for high-voltage rock, but The Kinks are much more than You Really Got Me – and Ray Davies’ inventive acoustic style influenced a generation of players, including Pete Townshend
September 10
- Open Gsus4 tuning chords: 5 chords you need to know
September 9
- The “train beat” is a staple of country and blues music – and learning to play over it will hone your hybrid picking and timing
- He’s played with Michael Jackson, Elton John and three of the Beatles, and was a world-class soloist while still in his teens – why Toto guitarist Steve Lukather is one of rock’s greatest players
September 6
- Jeff Hanneman is a metal god whose evil phrasing and brutal downpicking gave thrash kings Slayer an unholy dimension
September 5
- Exhausted all the conventional open tunings? Try the adventurous Aadd9 tuning: here are 5 chord shapes you need to know
September 4
- Familiar with the blues? Then you shouldn’t have any problems transitioning to country. In this country guitar masterclass, we teach you everything you need to know to make it in Nashville
September 3
- How to play surf music on guitar: 3 techniques that will make your playing sound authentic
- Open G tuning chords: 5 shapes you need to know
September 2
- Eric Stewart worked with Paul McCartney and ABBA’s Agnetha Faltskog, but as guitarist for 10cc, he created one of the most thrilling pop sounds in British music history