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LIKE ALL GUITARISTS, I recall getting my first

GT USER GUIDE

You can get more from GT by understanding our easy-to-follow musical terms and signs

FOOD FOR THOUGHT

Justin Sandercoe of justinguitar.com lends GT his insight as one of the world’s most successful guitar teachers. This month: The Importance of Mechanics

SESSION SHENANIGANS

The studio guitarist’s guide to happiness and personal fulfilment, as related by session ace Mitch Dalton. This month: Metal To The Pedal

HOW TO find all the notes on the fretboard

Many guitarists struggle to know which note is

JAM TRACKS TIPS

Use these to navigate our bonus backing tracks

SUBSTITUTE

Polychords

LIFE WITH THE MAESTRO

In a tribute to Ennio Morricone who passed away last year Jason Sidwell talks to recent GT guest artist, Rocco Zifarelli, who played guitar with the legendary film composer for the last 23 years of his life

No amps allowed! 10 UNPLUGGED GREATS

Jon Bishop serves up 10 acoustic studies to make your acoustic playing sound richer and more stylistically informed. With such a broad base of techniques and ideas, there’ll be something in here for everyone

THE CROSSROADS PT9 Altered Lines

This month down at The Crossroads John Wheatcroft shows how Robben Ford and others, add Altered tension and release to their solos, so that you too can sound sophisticated, modern and hip

FERNANDO SOR Study No.18 Opus 35

This month Bridget Mermikides takes us step by step through a beautiful study by the man who many consider to be the forefather of classical guitar

NEW ALBUMS

A selection of new and reissued guitar releases, including Album Of The Month

ALEX SILL

Video Masterclass Pt6

THE RHYTHM ROOST

Keen on all things rhythmic, Jason Sidwell goes jiving with tasty chord voicings over a jazzy rhythm section

JASON INTRODUCES...

Lessons from the world’s greatest teachers and schools

30-MINUTE LICKBAG

Jamie Hunt of BIMM Bristol brings you another varied selection of licks to learn at easy, intermediate and advanced levels

OTIS RUSH

Phil Short looks at perhaps the most criminally undersung of all modern electric blues guitarists, Mississippi’s ‘other’ upside-down leftie legend

URIAH HEEP

This month Martin Cooper checks out the sound of London rock legends Uriah Heap, and their longstanding guitarist, Mick Box

SHRED!

This month Charlie Griffiths enters the ultra zone, where he aims to decode some of Steve Vai’s alien guitar secrets

ALTERED SCALE SOLOING

Mike Stern continues his fascinating series on how he uses various Altered scales to create exhilarating solo improvisations

THE LIBERTINES

This month Simon Barnard looks at the simple but purposeful guitar styles of The Libertines’ twin frontmen, Carl Barât and Pete Docherty

MIXED INTERVALS

In this month’s column Shaun Baxter combines all the different interval types studied so far in this series, into a veritable intervallic smorgasbord