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Just a few of your regular GT tuition experts...

SIMON BARNARD Simon is a graduate of ACM

JUSTIN SANDERCOE

The founder of justinguitar.com lends GT his insight as one of the world’s most successful guitar teachers. This Month: Are your goals S.M.A.R.T?

MITCH DALTON

The studio guitarist’s guide to happiness and personal fulfilment, as related by our resident session ace. This month: Nostalgia Ain’t What It Used To Be.

JOHN 5

Guitar instrumentals have supplied some of music’s most evocative moments. Jason Sidwell asks top guitarists for their take on this iconic movement. This month: solo artist, guitarist for Dave Lee Roth and Rob Zombie, John 5

JAM TRACKS TIPS

Use these to navigate our bonus backing tracks

SUBSTITUTE

Working Backwards

LARRY McCRAY

A minute’s all it takes to discover what makes a great guitarist tick. Before he jumped into his limo for the airport, we grabbed a quick chat with legendary American blues guitarist, Larry McCray!

NEW ALBUMS

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

THE ROOTS OF EVH ! VAN HALEN’S INFLUENCES

Phil Short uses six immersive studies to dive deeply into the work of the rock guitar master and ask, “Who were the musicians that inspired Eddie Van Halen to play the way he did?”

THE CROSSROADS Holdsworth Connections

This month John Wheatcroft looks at the phenomenal Allan Holdsworth, exploring just some of the links that connected his playing to the greats from jazz, blues and beyond

ÁNGEL VILLOLDO El Choclo

Declan Zapala takes on this Argentinian tango from over 100 years ago. It’s ‘choc’ full of syncopated rhythms with plenty of strumming and slapping to boot. Warning: may lead to spontaneous dancing

BRETT GARSED Video Masterclass

This issue we welcome back Aussie legato and hybrid picking master Brett Garsed for a pinched harmonic-infused Stratocaster solo over Jason Sidwell’s fusion rock groover, Sizzle. Jon Bishop is your guide

JASON INTRODUCES...

Lessons from the world’s greatest teachers and schools

CHRIS CAIN

Phil Short examines the soulful and sophisticated stylings of one of the finest exponents of Memphis style electric blues

ALLMAN BROTHERS BAND

Martin Cooper checks out classic Southern blues-rock legends The Allman Brothers Band, and guitarists Duane Allman and Dickey Betts

BUCKETHEAD

Put another feather in your cap, put all your eggs in one basket, but don’t count your chickens, as Charlie Griffiths enters Bucketheadland

BLACK UHURU

This month Simon Barnard guides you through the six-string melodies of Grammy winners Black Uhuru, and a style of reggae known as ‘rockers’

GYPSY JAZZ

UK virtuoso Remi Harris ramps up the revs as he brings in some speedier bebop ideas, adds enclosures, tension, release and more

ACOUSTIC COUNTRY

This month Stuart Ryan shows you how to use the plectrum (flat pick) to play blisteringly fast bluegrass licks, like the brilliant Doc Watson

THEM CHANGES

Andy G Jones looks at the I-VI-II-V turnaround. It’s one of the commonest progressions in music and in this lesson we end with a bluesy take on it