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Ultimate Blues Jam

FROM CHORD PROGRESSIONS TO SHUFFLE RHYTHM AND SCALES: LEARN ALL YOU NEED TO KNOW TO BECOME A BLUES JAM SESSION MASTER WITH TG’S INSPIRING LESSONS.

Getting Started With...Legato Lead

Try your hand at a technique used by nearly every player who’s ever played a solo, with TG’s easy legato lesson

Damien Jurado

ON HIS 14TH ALBUM, THE HORIZON JUST LAUGHED, THE IDIOSYNCRATIC SEATTLE SONGWRITER PRESENTS PERSONAL UPHEAVAL IN A MISLEADINGLY LAID-BACK PACKAGE.

Gretsch G5220 Electromatic Jet BT

Has Gretsch just thrown down the gauntlet for single-cut value in 2018?

Positive Grid Bias 2

A giant in software amp modelling returns leaner and meaner

Line 6 HX Effects

Happy with your amp but like the look of the Helix? Read on....

Beetronics Whoctahell

Put some buzz in your fuzz

Rock School Fleetwood Mac Albatross

Try out a classic blues tune and hone your finger slide and vibrato technique in Rockschool’s easy Grade 2 arrangement

California Dreamin

Fender’s colourful new acoustic series officially released

Laura Veirs

THE PORTLAND SONGWRITER TALKS SILENCING HER INNER CRITIC AND HOW YOU DON’T HAVE TO SHOUT TO MAKE A DIFFERENCE THROUGH MUSIC

better band practice

getting your band in the same room to play can be like herding cats, but get it right and practice can be the key to success…

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…

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…

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?

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…

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.

Charlie Cunningham

Lines sketched the template, now new record permanent way finds the UK singer-songwriter making bold new steps.