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Gretsch G9521 Style 2 Triple-0 Auditorium

Back to the roots of 20th century acoustics.

Chris Buck

A new UK blues rock hope? The crowd goes Buck wild

Getting Started With...Natural Harmonics

Make your guitar ring like a bell by adding some natural harmonics to your palette

Jackson Pro Series Misha Mansoor Juggernaut HT7FM

A behemoth seven-string from the Periphery riff-master

IK Multimedia Acoustic Stage

Is this new pickup system taking the mic?

Five Minutes Alone Ihsahn

The Norwegian metal visionary on making it and why Jonny Greenwood is a genius…

Getting Started With...Minor 7th Chords

Rounding off our series looking at 7th chords, we turn our attention to the moody sounds of the minor variety

Muddy Waters & Jimmy Rogers

Take a look at the styles of two famously associated bluesmen, with a handful of ideas for each, plus two backing tracks to jam over

John Smith

He’s played witH lianne la Havas, david Gray and leann rimes, but more tHan tHat, JoHn smitH is tHe best kept acoustic secret in britain…

Appetite For Destruction

As the virtuoso returns with a raw new album, he talks teaching, saxophones and why playing fast is just filling space…

Five Minutes Alone - Mike Einziger

Incubus’s six-stringer on awkward guitar parts, mid-gig injuries and an ever-expanding pedalboard

Getting Started With...Arpeggios

Take your chord playing to the next level with this creative playing technique. TG shows you how…

Jam Track Play Guitar With A Band! - Modern Folk

Refine your strumming technique and try your hand at some melodic lead lines over TG’s modern-folk style backing track

Open-Mic Songbook - Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds - The Dying Of The Light

The humble capo is an essential bit of kit on noel Gallagher’s post-Britpop slice of cool

The Turnaround - Licks Of The Blues Legends - Peter Green

Inject class into your blues solos with TG’s lesson in the style of one of the UK’s guitar greats

Lucy Rose

This London-based Singer-songwriter Donned Her Troubadour Cap, Travelling to South America to Find Inspiration for Her New Album, Something’s Changing

Otis Redding (Sittin'On) The Dock Of The Bay

TG takes a look at this cool soul tune courtesy of Rockschool’s Grade Two acoustic transcription

Clutch

The Maryland riff wizards walk us through the gear they use to shake fillings and melt faces…

Fret-king Corona Fluence

Classic Shape Meets Cutting Edge Tech.

Vox AV30

A combo that combines the best of vintage and modern.

Fender CD-60s All-Mahogany

Can this entry-level dreadnought strum above its price tag?

Feeder

If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it – and that’s especially true if you’ve got as many vintage Fenders as Grant Nicholas.

Riding The Wave

30 years on from its release, Joe Satriani’s Surfing With The Alien remains one of instrumental guitar’s landmark albums.Here, Satch looks back and shares the lessons learned while recording a multi-platinum record on a shoestring budget…

take control

kent duo slaves are successfully prodding a pacified rock scene. all they need is an errant beastie boy, a stack of riffs and a ludicrous amount of amplifiers…

ryley walker

as the chicagoan casts off his wayfaring stranger typecast and heads for more expansive territory, we examine the death of a troubadour… 

epiphone inspired by 1966 century

bay’s guitar gets an affordable revival.

Scene - Thrice Change

YOUR MONTH IN GUITARS

Five Minutes Alone - Willie Adler

The Lamb of God man on noxious gig fumes, Billy Gibbons’ soul and why you don’t need to be a shredder

The Playlist

Blues rocker Dan Patlansky shuffles through his record collection and reveals why he’s scuppered by //Scuttle Buttin’

Mandolin Orange

From Metal To Mandolin, Americana Songwriter And Multi Instrumentalist Andrew Marlin Has Discovered That Going From Six-strings To Four Can Revolutionise Your Playing