BEAUTY IN TENSION

Some of the greatest albums of all time

SCENE YOUR NEWS IN GUITARS

“A REAL BUZZ!”

POP ART

FENDER UNVEILS ITS 2021 CUSTOM SHOP PRESTIGE COLLECTION, FEATURING “GUITARS WITH NO BOUNDARIES”

“I FEEL LIKE I’VE COMPLETED MY TONE MISSION”

DREAM THEATER GUITARIST JOHN PETRUCCI ON HIS NEW ALBUM WITH LIQUID TENSION EXPERIMENT, AND HOW HE HAS REACHED A “PERFECT PLACE” WITH TRIED-AND-TRUSTED GEAR

“I CALL IT MODERN POP BLUES”

AS LEAD GUITARIST FOR THE SNUTS, JOE MCGILLVERAY  HAS A STYLE BOTH CONTEMPORARY AND CLASSIC.  AND WITH HIS FAVOURITE STRAT, A SCREWDRIVER  COMES IN HANDY

GOJIRA

Another World

POWER CHORDS

GETTING STARTED WITH…

TECHNIQUE CHECK…

Get your fingers in prime position and your powerchords will rock!

“I WAS HEARING STUFF ON THE RADIO THAT DOESN’T HAVE GUITAR IN IT. I FOUND THAT REALLY STRANGE...”

With a billion streams and counting, singer-songwriter Tash Sultana mixes jazz, soul and pop on a brilliant new album – while playing guitar in a style rooted in classic rock and blues. An artist who defies categorization, Tash tells TG:  “I just flow with whatever I’m feeling...”

Steve Cropper

HE’S THE MAN WITH THE MAGIC TOUCH, THE TELE-WIELDING GROOVE MASTER WHOSE SIGNATURE STYLE SHAPED THE SOUND OF SOUL MUSIC FROM GREEN  ONIONSTO THE BLUES BROTHERS AND BE YOND, AND WHOSE FANS INCLUDED THE BEATLES. “RHY THM IS MY THING,” SAYS SOUL SURVIVOR STEVE CROPPER. “I LIKE TO GET PEOPLE DANCING AND ROCKING...”

SUPER NOODLES

On the long-awaited new album from punk rock stars The Offspring, guitarist Noodles has used a ton of gear – new and vintage – while channelling the Ramones, The Who and AC/DC. But even for this battle‐hardened punk hero, playing fast downstrokes isn’t easy.  As he admits to TG: “It hurts!”

“THE GUITAR IS SUCH A HUGE PLAYING FIELD. PEOPLE GET THEIR KICKS OUT OF IT IN SO MANY DIFFERENT WAYS...”

Ben Howard and John Smith are kindred spirits, new-school folk artists and leading exponents of progressive acoustic guitar. In conversation together, they reveal how their search for new sounds has led them from drop tunings to an “endless” array of effects, and explain why the best guitarists don’t always make the best songwriters…

SONGSMITHS

Need some acoustic inspiration? Look no further! Ben Howard and John Smith are amongst the most inventive out there

The Man with Two Brains

For Jon Gomm, one of the modern masters of percussive fingerstyle, the possibilities for acoustic guitar are limitless. He reveals the secrets of his jawdropping techniques to TG, and explains how the magic happens when “two brains materialise...”

The New Acoustic Generation

From bluegrass virtuoso to fun-loving fingerstylist, from one-man band to dynamic duo, from YouTuber to stringslapper – TG salutes more of the best acoustic players in the world right now

LESSONS IN LOOP

Who needs the band? Use a looper pedal and you BECOME the band!

PLAYING IN THE KEY OF SEA

Six Music Lessons Of The Sea Shanty

SOON MAY THE WELLERMAN COME

Sail the seven seas of rock with TG’s guitar version of this 19th century sea shanty!

“BLUES IS ABOUT PASSION AND EMOTION, AND GARY MOORE HAD THAT IN SPADES”

He was the Irish guitar hero who inspired countless players from Joe Bonamassa to Kirk Hammett. With extracts from a neverbefore-published interview with Gary from 2004, TG profiles the career of a legendary figure whose influence lives on

GOT THE BLUES

TG takes you inside the playing style of the guitarist whose musical rediscovery in the early 90s changed blues forever

STEVIE RAY VAUGHAN

MARY HAD A  LITTLE LAMB

EVA CASSIDY

SONGBIRD

ED SHEERAN

AFTERGLOW

TAB GUIDE

Get more from TG by understanding our easy-to-follow musical terms and signs

THE GAS STATION

REAL WORLD REVIEWS OF THE BEST NEW GEAR

START ME UP!

Five awesome new products to get your gear engine revving this month…

PRS SE CUSTOM 24-08

The best SE ever?

SHEERAN BY LOWDEN W03

The collaborative bra nd’s model gets a 2021 upgrade

CORT CORE-OC BLACKWOOD

Cort of appeal

BOSS RC-5

Compact dimensions with expansive features

RUBEN WAN

If you were to mix George Benson’s love