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Total Guitar
February 2023
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Welcome…
And a happy new year to you all.
MONITOR
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IK MULTIMEDIA TONEX FOR IOS
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METALLICA
Lux Æterna
MAKE YOUR POWER CHORDS ROCK!
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FEATURES
“A GUITAR THAT’S TOO SMALL FOR ME LOOKS TRULY AWFUL!”
Devin Townsend – the prog metal maverick with very specific gear requirements.
“YOU CAN’T RELY ON BUYING NEW GEAR TO WRITE A GOOD SONG!”
For the guitarists in post-punk band The Murder Capital, it is a question of pedals: how many is too many?
“My twenty quid guitar is the best!”
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“WE HAVE A SICKNESS – IT’S CALLED ‘GUITAR PEDALS’!”
How the ambient music of Hammock is created – a “guitar symphony” with tons of effects but no rules
COVER FEATURE
Brian May THE INTERVIEW
“We were the right people together at the right time. We were very much in harmony, without even trying”
Live Aid
How Queen ruled on the biggest stage of all
Queen + Adam Lambert
GOOD COMPANY Brian with Adam Lambert. “We make
THE GENIUS OF... BRIAN MAY
Power chord riffing, harmony lead and much more: the multi-faceted and instantly recognisable guitar style of Queen’s melodic maestro...
LEARN TO PLAY
QUEEN THE SHOW MUST GO ON
Learn Brian’s classic rock guitar styling on the final track of 1991’s Innuendo – Queen’s final studio offering with Freddie Mercury
JIMI HENDRIX HEY JOE
Rockschool and TG take a look at Jimi’s blues-rock masterpiece
NIRVANA ABOUT A GIRL
In 1993, Nirvana unplugged for MTV at Sony Music Studios in New York and gave this deep cut a whole new life
TAB GUIDE
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ROUND-UP
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ELECTRO-HARMONIX STRING9
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