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Despite over 2 weeks to go until Cyber Weekend, Fender has decided to slash hundreds off a huge range of guitars, including $200 off the highly-rated American Professional II
By Daryl Robertson published
With deals on everything from Acoustasonic to the American Performer, Vintera II and Player Plus, there is no need to wait until the big bay for a bargain

Pat Metheny tells the story of how he met Jaco Pastorius – and their formative years in Miami
By Janelle Borg published
Pastorius notably played on Metheny's debut album, Bright Size Life, and the two even joined Joni Mitchell on her Shadows and Light tour

Misha Mansoor on the emergence of offsets in metal music – and why he should have seen it coming
By Matt Owen published
The Periphery guitarist recently worked with Jackson to produce one of 2024's most talked-about custom builds – but he's not the first player to have dragged the offset into heavy territory over the past few years

George Benson on how he got the Gibson that shaped his 1976 chart-topping record, Breezin’
By Janelle Borg published
Benson recalls how he bought his Breezin' Gibson Johnny Smith from someone he calls “one of the bravest guys I’d ever met”

How jazz guitar legend Mike Stern ended up joining Miles Davis’ band – and had a song named after him
By Matt Owen published
Stern was playing with Billy Cobham one night in the early 1980s when Evans decided to bring along the legendary jazz trumpeter, who was in the market for a new guitar player

It worked for the Beatles on Yesterday – add intrigue to your songs and solos with the melodic minor scale
By Simon Barnard published
Get to grips with this invaluable and interesting addition to the songwriter's vocabulary used by Paul McCartney and jazzers alike

Judith Hill on her journey from backing singer for Michael Jackson, Prince and Stevie Wonder to fronting her own band
By Mark McStea published
The 20 Feet From Stardom singer worked with – and learned from – the biggest names in pop before she seized a six-string and formed her own group

Learn the trailblazing style of John McLaughlin, one of the true pioneers of jazz-rock fusion
By Nick Mellor published
McLaughlin's experiments with complex harmony, Eastern scales, and chromaticism – in conjunction with the rigs associated with the rock and proto-metal players of the late 1960s and early 70s – cemented his position as the well-spring of fusion guitar at a crucial moment

“Gretsch’s most exciting release of the year. A genuine joy to play”: Gretsch Electromatic Jack Antonoff Signature "Princess Antonoff" CVT review
By Matt Owen published
Gretsch's collaboration with the Bleachers mainman and Taylor Swift collaborator is a versatile surprise

Mateus Asato is a modern master of combined rhythm and lead playing – he shares his poetic soloing secrets
By Mateus Asato published
No one mixes genres like Mateus Asato, and in this lesson brought to you in partnership with JTC Guitar, the neo-soul master brings funk, jazz and soul together in exercises to improve your use of ghost notes and double-stops
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