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EXPRESSIVE SOLOING WITH PAUL GILBERT

In this exclusive video lesson, the legendary Paul Gilbert treats you to a37-minute overview on transferring vocal phrases to the guitar, with Jon Bishop as your guide.

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!

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.

CHRIS DUARTE: 5 Texas Blues Licks

We invited the San Antonio-born blues master to record five of his favourite Texas blues licks. Prepare to turn up the heat, with Jon Bishop as your guide.

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!

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.

MICHAEL ROMEO

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

ALBERT KING

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

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.

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.

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 WVH frontman, 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!

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.

THE GYPSY IN HIS SOUL

As he wraps the 20th installment of his celebrated Django A GoGo Festival, Stephane Wrembel reflects on the guitarist whose musical essence inspires his own.

TIP SHEET

Nili Brosh shares hard-earned wisdom from her years as a solo and supporting guitarist.

When Japan Was the Future

Intended as a Les Paul killer when it bowed in 1976, Yamaha's SG-2000 appealed to players fed up with declining U.S. quality.

DRIVE SHE SAID

As she drops her latest album, Mother Road, Grace Potter reveals what she learned from playing on nylon strings - and why a Flying V is still the best rock and roll guitar.

After the Flood

Devastated by his partner's death, Alexandre Lagoya reclaimed his life and artistry on his own.

FORCE of NATURE

Faced with a choice between David Bowie and his own band, Stevie Ray Vaughan took a bet on the blues and unleashed a torrent 40 years ago with his debut album, Texas Flood. Double Trouble’s Tommy Shannon and Chris Layton fill in the details.

WEATHER CASTER

How climate extremes led Gene Baker to re-envision the acoustic-electric with b3 Guitars' Cielo Deluxe.

BEST OF BOTH WORLDS

On Double Exposure, Vinnie Moore unites both spheres of his rock guitar influences.

SHINE A LIGHT

As Greta Van Fleet prepare for a massive tour and the release of Starcatcher, Jake Kiszka talks tone, gear...and what everyone gets wrong about his 1970s hard-rock approach to guitar playing.

HOLIDAY IN THE SONS

With a new Rival Sons album in the charts, Scott Holiday is back in the spotlight following a four-year absence.

How I Wrote..."Crimson and Clover"

Pop icon Tommy James reveals the magic combination behind the Shondells' timeless psychedelic hit.

Open Source

The world of open tunings, according to Peppino D'Agostino.

TAYLOR

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Rush Subdivisions

Musically it was influenced by some of the newer bands they were listening to, and sonically it took Rush further into the world of synthesisers and not all of the trio were happy about that.

Lucinda Williams

The singer-songwriter on post-stroke recovery, losing the ability to play guitar, and the thrill of a Bruce Springsteen cameo.

PARADISE CITY

Taking cues from the big rock of the 60s, 70s and 80s (with a particular nod to GN'R), The Dust Coda are hoping their just-released third album Loco Paradise will excite you listening to it as much as it excited them making it.