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Tim Henson Playing God unplugged playthrough
Watch Tim Henson’s flawless unplugged performance of Polyphia’s Playing God

By Matt Parker Published

The guitarist takes a seat for this astonishing run-through of Polyphia’s flamenco-influenced new single

Guitarists
Ben Gibbard of Death Cab For Cutie performs at 2022 New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival at Fair Grounds Race Course on April 29, 2022 in New Orleans, Louisiana
From flamenco trap-shred to glitch-guitar stabs: here are this week's essential tracks

By Michael Astley-Brown, Jackson Maxwell, Sam Roche Published

Usher in the weekend with great guitar-heavy tunes from Polyphia, My Chemical Romance, Nova Twins, Death Cab for Cutie, Black Midi, Charlie Griffiths and more

Music Releases
Manuel Gardner Fernandes, San Holo, Melanie Faye and Kazuki Isogai
Digging the new Polyphia? Here are 10 trap and lo-fi beat-loving guitar players you need to check out

By Michael Astley-Brown Published

10 production-savvy guitarists breathing fresh life into guitar playing with hip-hop inspired arrangements and dizzying chops

Guitarists
Scott LePage and Tim Henson playing in Polyphia's Playing God music video
Polyphia go acoustic on their first new song in three years, Playing God

By Matt Owen Published

Tim Henson and Scott LePage are on devastating form, and serve up their usual six-string pyrotechnics while wielding custom Ibanez Talman nylon-strings

Music Releases
Angus Young, Tim Henson, Paul Kossoff
The 10 types of string bending, from blues and boomer bends to tweak and tap bends

By Milton Mermikides Published

Who could have imagined an everyday act of guitar technique would become so controversial? We take a deep dive into bending and see how it's changed over the ages

Lessons
Tim Henson
We need to talk about boomer bends: why the backlash to Tim Henson's technique preference represents more than just a generational divide

By Matt Parker Published

The Polyphia guitarist’s comments about avoiding "boomer-ish" bends sparked a reaction that speaks to larger issues for us guitar players, and how our treatment of the past shapes the future of the instrument

Guitarists
Polyphia's Tim Henson performs live
“No-one said you couldn’t bend!”: Polyphia's Tim Henson addresses “boomer bends” controversy

By Matt Parker Published

Henson catches up with Rick Beato to discuss the fallout from a throwaway comment about “boomer-ish” guitar bends

Bands
Rick Beato, Tosin Abasi, Tim Henson and Misha Mansoor
Tim Henson reveals he's never heard Metallica's Black Album – much to the amazement of Tosin Abasi and Misha Mansoor

By Michael Astley-Brown Published

Rick Beato hosts a modern guitar summit, complete with a number of surprise revelations from the Polyphia, Animals as Leaders and Periphery guitar heroes

Music Releases
The Omnific and Clay Gober
Dual-bass prog trio The Omnific recruit Polyphia's Clay Gober for epic new single, Antecedent

By Matt Owen Published

Three basses are better than two in this four-minute masterclass, which offers up a dizzying array of picking-slap-hybrid exchanges and melodic percussive passages

Bass Guitars
Tim Henson playing Jason Becker's Peavey JB24 Numbers electric guitar
Watch Tim Henson improvise with Herman Li using Jason Becker’s original prototype Peavey Numbers guitar

By Matt Owen Published

The pair teamed up to trade licks in the latest installment of the Jason Becker fundraiser livestream event, which has raised nearly $250,000 so far

Electric Guitars
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