Food For Thought

Every month, Justin Sandercoe of justinguitar.com lends GT his insight as one of the world’s most successful guitar teachers. This Month: Searching for the perfect ‘comp’.

Session Shenanigans

The studio guitarist’s guide to happiness and personal fulfilment, as related to us by top sessioneer Mitch Dalton. Part 7, where Mitch finds himself gyring and gimbling in the wabe.

Instrumental Inquisition!

Instrumentals have supplied some of music’s most evocative moments. We asked some top guitarists for their take on this iconic movement. This month: American melodic thrash pioneer and jazz improvisor, Alex Skolnick.

Chris Cornell

Martin Cooper honours Soundgarden and Audioslave’s sadly-departed rock genius Chris Cornell with a look at his ‘solo era’ style.

Jack Johnson

This month Stuart Ryan goes surf-side as he shows you how to get the cool and groovy vibe of this chilled-out acoustic troubadour.

Electric Slide

Harrison March continues exploring slide guitar styles, this time looking at Elmore James and Johnny Winter’s favourite open D tuning.

Food For Thought

Justin Sandercoe of justinguitar.com lends GT his insight as one of the world’s most successful guitar teachers. This month: It’s all about rhythm?

Session Shenanigans

The studio guitarist’s guide to happiness and personal fulfilment, as related to us by Mitch Dalton. This month we find our hero pleading, art for art’s sake...

Instrumental Inquisition!

Instrumentals have supplied some of music’s most evocative moments. We asked some top guitarists for their take on this iconic movement.This month: modern acoustic sensation, Mike Dawes.

Talk Back Your Letters...

Just wanted to say thanks for (kind of) changing my life.

Django Reinhardt His Style In 25 Licks

In this special feature John Wheatcroft takes a licks based look at the unique style of Belgium born gypsy guitarist Jean Reinhardt, better known to the world simply as ‘Django’.

Moonlight Sonata Ludwig Van Beethoven

Bridget Mermikides has elegantly transposed this stunning peice by Ludwig van Beethoven, one of the most influential composers of all time, from piano to guitar.

Food For Thought

Every month Justin Sandercoe of justinguitar.com lends GT his insight as one of the world’s most successful guitar teachers.This month: Guitar ‘click bait’

Gary Moore Full Career Study

Gary Moore’s passionate yet precise playing embraced blues, ballads, fusion and heavy rock. Richard Barrett explores every facet of his career with six highly detailed examples - plus fantastic backing tracks.

Two-Handed Tapping Pt 3 - Classic Rock Style

You can forget speed battles and pointy guitars as Paul Bielatowicz shows how to use tapping to create a hot-riffing, classic rock style piece.

Julian Lage

The future of jazz guitar is in very capable hands indeed with the amazingly virtuosic Julian Lage, as GT jazz-man John Wheatcroft confirms.

Grunge Sounds Of Seattle And Beyond

With the recent passing of Chris Cornell, we were reminded of the power and impact of grunge. In celebration of the genre, GT’s Jon Bishop presents 10 tracks in the style of grunge’s top bands.

JS Bach Aria From Goldberg Variations BMW 988

Returning once again to the master, Bridget Mermikides explores a beautiful Aria written for harpsichord and featuring a heavily-ornamented melody over a bassline voice.

Europe

Let your hair loose with Martin Cooper as he checks out the sound of Swedish soft-metal rockers Europe and guitarist John Norum.

Dave Matthews

He’s one of the prime movers in the Americana scene. Stuart Ryan takes you through the quirky playing style of this acoustic superstar.

Slide In Open E - Pt 1

Favoured by Derek Trucks and Duane Allman of the Allman Brothers, Harrison Marsh takes a look at a tuning popular in electric slide playing.

technique makeover top 10 problems solved!

common pitfalls plague all players. richard barrett looks at the 10 most common technical problems and offers a strategy to improve each one, with 10 bespoke examples, mini pieces and backing tracks.

Sixty Seconds With...

A minute’s all it takes to find out what makes a great guitarist tick. Before he jumped in his limo for the airport, we grabbed a quick chat with lap side guitarist extraordinaire: 

Larry Carlton

This month, Les Davidson looks at the work of one of America’s top session and solo artists, the musicians’ musician: Larry Carlton.

Food For Thought

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

Instrumental Inquisition!

Guitar instrumentals have supplied some of music’s most evocative moments. We asked top guitarists in a variety of genres for their take on this iconic movement. Today we meet rock and metal wizard, Andy James.

Bruce Welch

Stuart Ryan takes the legendary rhythm man’s style out of The Shadows and into GT! Learn how his acoustic powered so many hits.

Tuck Andress

John Wheatcroft discovers it’s good to be all fingers and thumbs, as this month he looks at the wizardry of the incredible Tuck Andress.

Brett Garsed

Brett ventures into Larry Carlton territory with a tasteful, soul-filled blues solo over Jason’s track The Maple River. Jon Bishop is your guide.

Food For Thought

Every month, Justin Sandercoe of justinguitar.com lends GT his insight as one of the world’s most successful guitar teachers. This month: Give me convenience?