Rock Sound
TIME TO BE REAL
PERHAPS MORE THAN EVER BEFORE IN THE UK, BANDS LIKE KID KAPICHI ARE VITAL. HERE, FRONTMAN JACK WILSON TAKES US DEEP INSIDE 'HERE'S WHAT YOU COULD HAVE WON'.
4 min |
October 2022
Total Guitar
"Playing on one string can almost emulate the human voice"
As the Tedeschi Trucks Band deliver a quadruple album bonanza, slide guitar maestro Derek Trucks reveals the source of his gargantuan tones and emotive power...
7 min |
September 2022
Total Guitar
"He's Pushing the Boundaries of Music and Instruments"
Matt Bellamy's vision for Manson guitars: the inside story
5 min |
September 2022
Total Guitar
Marcus King – "I want my guitar to sound like a jazz singer"
Marcus King on raiding Dan Auerbach's pedal collection and wanting his new record to sound like “a tattoo gun”
3 min |
September 2022
Total Guitar
Matt Bellamy – "It's a new dimension for this band"
The Matt Bellamy interview. How the explosive new Muse album was created - with a mountain of gear and inspiration from Iron Maiden and Slipknot...
10+ min |
September 2022
Guitar Player
Peter Rowan – 'Panama Red'
Peter Rowan reveals the origin of his signature song - and explains how to play it.
3 min |
October 2022
Guitar Player
Fast Track
From inside his home studio, Kurt Vile reveals his working methods. Writing songs, playing guitar - it's all about capturing a "perfect moment."
9 min |
October 2022
Guitar Techniques
ANDY TIMMONS Video Masterclass
We welcome back US rock virtuoso Andy Timmons to our monthly video slot. We invited Andy to share key aspects of his style by soloing over Big Man Walking, specially written for him by Jason Sidwell.
7 min |
October 2022
Guitar Techniques
ECONOMY PICKING FINALE
In this month’s article, Chris Brooks from Fundamental Changes combines ideas from previous lessons to create two fantastic solos.
2 min |
October 2022
Guitar Techniques
ALTERED 5THS
This month Andy G Jones adds altered 5ths over a resolving Dominant 7th chord, adding a touch of sophistication to our palette of sounds.
2 min |
October 2022
Guitar Techniques
JUSTIN SANDERCOE
The founder of justinguitar.com lends GT his insight as one of the world’s most successful guitar teachers.
4 min |
October 2022
Guitar Techniques
JOEY LANDRETH
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: the stunning guitarist from The Bros Landreth.
3 min |
October 2022
Guitar Techniques
PLAY LIKE… 8 ACOUSTIC LEGENDS!
Discover a world beyond the simple strum! Using the styles of eight acoustic legends, Stuart Ryan explores what an acoustic guitar is really capable of, and shows you just how much it can offer.
9 min |
October 2022
Guitar Techniques
MITCH DALTON
The studio guitarist’s guide to happiness and personal fulfilment, as related by our resident session ace.
3 min |
October 2022
Guitar Techniques
THE CROSSROADS Di Meola, De Lucía and McLaughlin!
For this month’s Crossroads, John Wheatcroft celebrates the recent unearthing of a precious lost recording from the ‘super guitar trio’ of Paco de Lucía, Al Di Meola and John McLaughlin.
8 min |
October 2022
Guitar Techniques
DOM MARTIN
A minute’s all it takes to discover what makes a great guitarist tick. Before he jumped into his limo for the airport, we grabbed a quick chat with Northern Irish blues sensation, Dom Martin.
6 min |
October 2022
Guitar Techniques
MARK KNOPFLER
Stuart Ryan looks at the acoustic playing of Dire Straits’ celebrated frontman, and one of the most successful solo artists of all time.
1 min |
October 2022
Guitar Player
How I Wrote..."Someday, Someway"
Marshall Crenshaw reveals Gene Vincent's role in his 1982 signature hit.
3 min |
October 2022
Guitar Player
JACQUES
Prisoner BBD - Analog Delay
2 min |
October 2022
Guitar Player
UNCOMMON THREAD
Peter Rowan's remarkable career connects bluegrass legends from Bill Monroe, Jerry Garcia and Tony Rice to Billy Strings and Molly Tuttle, both of whom join him on his new album, Calling You From My Mountain.
8 min |
October 2022
Guitar Player
STRANGE BREW
Bartees Strange cooks up a heady, dynamic indie-rock concoction on Farm to Table.
6 min |
October 2022
Guitar Player
MAGIC ACT
With electronics inspired by a famed 1970s studio console, Terry C. McInturff's Spellcaster sounds like a Telecaster from your favorite classic rock album.
5 min |
October 2022
Guitar Player
ZERO THE HERO
On Shinedown's latest, Zach Myers does more with less and finds an elusive amp tone in a Kemper.
3 min |
October 2022
Guitar Player
IN THE COURT OF THE CRIMSON KING
With King Crimson on perhaps permanent hiatus, the notoriously interview-shy Robert Fripp does the unthinkable and sits down for a lengthy talk about his musical beginnings, Crimson's history and the guitars with which he's created some of prog-rock's finest moments.
10+ min |
October 2022
Guitar Player
VALCO
KGB DIST distortion pedal
3 min |
October 2022
Guitar Player
The Blues Had a Baby
Elvis Presley's Sun Sessions is the sound of rockabilly's accidental birth.
2 min |
October 2022
Guitar Player
TIP SHEET
Joe Satriani shares 10 pointers to improve your practice, playing and performance.
5 min |
October 2022
Guitar Player
THE BUD POWELL OF JAZZ GUITAR
One of the most gifted and musical jazz guitarists of today, Pasquale Grasso takes inspiration not from his six-string brethren but from the genre's legendary ivory ticklers.
10+ min |
October 2022
Guitarist
Saucerful Of Syd
One man's quest for early Pink Floyd sound resulted in this stompbox emulation of a long-forgotten 1960s British amp
2 min |
September 2022
Guitarist
Dead Ringers
Universal Audio's UAFX range expands with these 'one amp per box' emulators that capture the sounds of the world's greatest vintage guitar amplifiers
5 min |