Guitar Techniques

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SIMON BARNARD Simon is a graduate of ACM

WELCOME

FOR MANY guitar fans, Paul Gilbert is the

GT USER GUIDE

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

WOLFGANG VAN HALEN

A minute’s all it takes to find out what makes a great guitarist tick. Before he jumped into his limo to the airport, we grabbed a chat with the Mammoth WVHfrontman, who carries guitar-playing history on his shoulders.

JUSTIN SANDERCOE

The founder of justinguitar.com lends GT his insight as one of the world’s most successful guitar teachers. This Month: Mysteries Of The Pedal Steel!

SUBSTITUTE

Using Extended Chords

MITCH DALTON

The studio guitarist’s guide to happiness and personal fulfilment, as related by our resident session ace. This month: Forgive Me Father, For I Have Sinned.

JAM TRACKS TIPS

Use these to navigate our bonus backing tracks

VINNIE MOORE

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, American virtuosic rock legend, Vinnie Moore.

NEW ALBUMS

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

EXPRESSIVE SOLOING WITH PAUL GILBERT

In this exclusive video lesson, the legendary Paul Gilbert treats you to a 37-minute overview on transferring vocal phrases to the guitar, with Jon Bishop as your guide.

CHRIS DUARTE

5 Texas Blues Licks

SIX SOUTH AMERICAN RHYTHMS

Latin music combines exciting rhythms with a vibrant feel and can be both challenging and rewarding to play. So get ready, says Jon Bishop - it’s Carnival time!

THE CROSSROADS John Scofield

This month John Wheatcroft investigates the playing of a true contemporary jazz great who mixes bluesy-rock tone with sophisticated harmony and dazzling technique.

GASPAR SANZ Canarios

We take a journey to 17th-century Spain this month to explore Declan Zapala’s arrangement of this uplifting miniature originally written for the baroque guitar.

30-MINUTE LICKBAG

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

ALBERT KING

This month Phil Short explores the sound of a blues guitarist who used minimal notes but maximum feel to create unforgettable music.

DINOSAUR JR/J MASCIS

This month Martin Cooper checks out the sound of the Massachusetts rock pioneers, and the six-string talents of guitarist J Mascis.

MICHAEL ROMEO

Join Charlie Griffiths on an Odyssey through the divine strings of Symphony X, to encounter a multitude of picking and tapping techniques.

TASTY SOLOING

Andy G Jones looks at a phenomenon of bluesbased music. John Mayer wears his influences well, but always brings his own twist to things.

BONNIE RAITT

This month Stuart Ryan looks at the acoustic side of a Grammy-winning legend who’s usually more at home with a Strat and a bottleneck!

WALKING BASSLINES PART 4

In the final lesson in this series Tim Pettingale transcribes the bassline, chord and melody examples as played by fingerstyle jazz legend, Martin Taylor.

FINGER TAPPING

This month Simon Barnard demonstrates various approaches to using two-hand tapping in different musical styles, with a full study piece.