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Welcome…

Of all the things you probably weren’t expecting

HOT LEG!

Photo Alice Backham B ack in December

“IT’S A FIRST FOR FENDER”

JAMES BAY ON HIS ONE-OFF GUITAR AND NEW ALBUM

THE SAINTS ARE COMING!

BLACKSTAR LOOKS TO “THE FUTURE OF GUITAR AMPLIFICATION” WITH ITS LATEST VALVE AMPS

SEYMOUR DUNCAN EYES CLASSIC TONES

Seymour Duncan has unleashed a trio of humbuckers

ERNIE BALL PAPA HET’S HARDWIRED MASTER CORES

Ernie Ball and James Hetfield have teamed-up for

HISTORY REPEATING

Boss goes retro with a pair of digital Space Echo emulations with heaps of analogue character

ARCHITECTS

When We Were Young

PRACTICE FOR BUSY PEOPLE

Paul has hit the biggest obstacle every guitarist faces – finding time to practise! Together, he and Jenna are making a plan to fit guitar into his life...

“I have this whole other side of my musical personality”

METALLICA GUITARIST KIRK HAMMETT IS EXPLORING NEW SOUNDS ON HIS FIRST SOLO PROJECT. HIS AIM:“TO DO SOMETHING THAT’S NEVER BEEN DONE BEFORE…”

Portals

The techniques and textures in Kirk Hammett’s solo EP

“Less is more”

For singer-songwriter Grace Cummings, playing guitar is all about serving the song...

“You get this huge spread that’s not possible on a six-string...”

THE EIGHT-STRING GUITAR OPENS UP A WHOLE NEW WORLD OF POSSIBILITIES. TWO OF ITS LEADING EXPONENTS – MÅRTEN HAGSTRÖM OF MESHUGGAH AND TOSIN ABASI FROM ANIMALS AS LEADERS – REVEAL ALL

“We’re searching for that perfect melody”

How the three guitarists in Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever create an epic, filmic sound

STRING SKIPPING

Supercharge your picking and soloing skills and create ear-grabbing ideas with TG’s string skipping exercises

Shine On...

Photo Getty It was in 1968 that David

The Genius of David Gilmour In 20 Songs

“HE HAS THIS PERFECT GUITAR TONE, WHETHER IT’S ACOUSTIC OR ELECTRIC”

“SOMEONE WOULD COUNT IN OR START PLAYING... AND THEN YOU’D JUST FLY!”

MY LIFE IN PINK FLOYD – AND BEYOND. DAVID GILMOUR: IN HIS OWN WORDS...

“The solo in Comfortably Numb is actually a first take!”

INSIDE THE WORLD OF DAVID GILMOUR AND PINK FLOYD, BY PRODUCER BOB EZRIN

In The Flesh

TG’s in-depth analysis of Gilmour’s playing techniques will help you tackle his greatest riffs and solos

Bend It Like Gilmour

TG breaks down Gilmour’s huge four- and five-fret string bends from Another Brick In The Wall

Gilmourish

Try your hand at the lead style of the godfather of the melodic solo, David Gilmour

CREAM SUNSHINE OF YOUR LOVE

Develop your finger muscles with some serious string bending in this classic slice of psychedelic blues-rock

BON JOVI LIVIN’ ON A PRAYER

It’s time for big hair, bombastic riffing and all-out sonic excess! TG and Rockschool take a deep-dive into Jov i’s signature track

U2 WITH OR WITHOUT YOU

Confused by delay pedals? Learn this 80s classic that creates killer riffs from tempo-matched delay settings

THE GAS STATION

REAL WORLD REVIEWS OF THE BEST NEW GEAR

START ME UP!

Five awesome new products to get your gear engine revving this month…

YAMAHA RSS02T £649

Yamaha’s Revstar range gets a serious makeover and much more

LINE 6 DL4 MKII £279

A new, updated version of the classic multi-footswitch delay pedal

FENDER PARAMOUNT PD-220E £649

A new benchmark?

WALRUS AUDIO SLÖTVÅ

2022: A Reverb Odyssey

SPICE

Photo Mitchell Wojcik Hailing from San Francisco’s East