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FOOD FOR THOUGHT

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

SESSION SHENANIGANS

The studio guitarist’s guide to happiness and personal fulfilment, as related by session ace Mitch Dalton. This month: Hi-Tek with Low-Tech (1981-2021)

INSTRUMENTAL INQUISITION !

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: Snarky Puppy’s guitarist, plus producer and composer,

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SUBSTITUTE

Gypsy Jazz

SIXTY SECONDS WITH...

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 Welsh blues slide guitarist and bandleader,

NEW ALBUMS

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

ALBERT KING Was He The Greatest Ever?

Breaking out the Flying V and using ideas from eight all-time blues legends, Jon Bishop seeks to answer the contentious question, “Was Albert King the greatest electric bluesman of them all?”

THE CROSSROADS Chord Voicings

This month at the Crossroads, John Wheatcroft finds the chordal connections from modern bluesman Kirk Fletcher, to jazz legends Joe Pass and Wes Montgomery, via the great Robben Ford

NAPOLÉON COSTE Etude In C Major (op38 no2)

The 19th century guitarist and composer was a leading figure from the ‘Golden Age’ of guitar. Bridget Mermikides arranges and transcribes Coste’s beautiful Etude In C Major

REB BEACH Video Masterclass

Rock legend and two-handed tapping virtuoso Reb Beach presents his guitar trademarks as he takes a melodic shred solo over Jason Sidwell’s uptempo rock track, Flying High. Jon Bishop is your guide

THE RHYTHM ROOST

Keen on all things rhythmic, Jason Sidwell uses two-handed tapping to perform this issue’s groove riff, Tip Tap!

30-MINUTE LICKBAG

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

ROBBEN FORD

This month Phil Short explores the beautifully rhythmic and harmonically eloquent playing of one of the first guitarists to blend blues and jazz

Nirvana

This month Martin Cooper checks out one of the most successful, genre defining bands of the 20th century: Nirvana and guitarist Kurt Cobain!

SHRED!

Things become a little ‘Extreme’ this month as Charlie Griffiths ‘Gets The Funk Out’ with Nuno Bettencourt’s ‘Monster’ style

OSCAR PETERSON

Swedish jazz great Ulf Wakenius looks at how Peterson adapted blues language for jazz piano, and how we can borrow these ideas for guitar

CELTIC FINGERSTYLE

Stuart Ryan shows you the slower side of the Celtic sound with a fingerstyle arrangement of a traditional Irish air, The Morning Of Life

BOMBAY BICYCLE CLUB

In the final instalment of his Brit Rock series, Simon Barnard shows you how to sound like Crouch End’s World Music-inspired indie band

THEM CHANGES

Andy G Jones of the London College of Creative Media begins a new series looking at intervals and chord tones and how to use them musically