Prog
'I mean, what is classical nowadays?'
Tony Banks reflects on his role as a 21st-century classical composer.
8 min |
Issue 154
Guitar Techniques
GET THE FUNK OUT! Best Of The 70s
Jon Bishop enters a Boogie Wonderful where soul, i= pop, R&B, dance, groove, disco, and gospel combine to create one of modern music's most evocative styles.
3 min |
December 2024
Guitar Techniques
PERSONAL RECOLLECTIONS
Contributors past and present share their recollections and closing thoughts on GT’s incredible 30-year ride!
10+ min |
December 2024
Guitar Techniques
VIDEO MASTERCLASS Shred like Yngwie Malmsteen!
With this year marking the 40th anniversary of his landmark album, Rising Force, Chris Brooks has teamed up with GT for this celebratory lesson.
2 min |
December 2024
Guitar Techniques
JOHANN KASPAR MERTZ Capriccio
This month Declan Zapala explores the music of Austria at the turn of the Romantic period with a fiery caprice to level up your fingers and unlock your inner virtuoso.
2 min |
December 2024
Guitar Techniques
VIDEO MASTERCLASS Troy Redfern
This month GT welcomes this slide guitar virtuoso. If you've been wanting to take your slide playing to the next level then this is one's for you. With Jon Bishop.
2 min |
December 2024
Guitar Techniques
OPEN G TUNING
Open tunings are great fun and can help create exciting new ideas. Simon Barnard shows how to incorporate open G tuning into your playing.
2 min |
December 2024
Guitar Techniques
LUTHER ALLISON
It’s blues with a touch of soul this month, as David Gerrish explores the dynamic, expressive style of an often overlooked Chicago bluesman.
2 min |
December 2024
Guitar Techniques
MARK KNOPFLER
Our topic this month is a master craftsman as both guitar player and songwriter. His style is unique and his influence spreads far and wide.
2 min |
December 2024
Guitar Techniques
U2
Martin Cooper checks out the chiming pedal delay tones of this stadium-filling band from Dublin, Ireland, and guitarist The Edge.
2 min |
December 2024
Guitar Techniques
AL DI MEOLA
A minute's all it takes to find out what makes a great guitarist tick. Before he jumped into his limo for the airport we grabbed a quick chat with picking legend and \"true fusion player\", the Elegant Gypsy himself...
3 min |
December 2024
Guitar Techniques
NIGEL PRICE
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 he talks to a top-flight British jazz luminary.
8 min |
December 2024
Guitar Techniques
THE MOODY BLUES
This month Stuart Ryan delves into the picking style of this British prog legend whose acoustic guitar has powered many a Moody Blues song.
2 min |
December 2024
Guitar Techniques
WAYNE KRANTZ
This issue Nick Mellor provides an insight into this brilliant jazz stylist, focusing on his approach to improvising over static chords.
2 min |
December 2024
Guitar Techniques
THE CROSSROADS Michael Landau
John Wheatcroft explores the playing of a session ace _ and blazing blues-rock maestro who graces the top-flight m band of singer-songwriting legend, James Taylor.
2 min |
December 2024
Guitar Techniques
RODRIGO GOUVEIA
Last month we featured Mateus Asato, and mentioned the importance of the neo-soul style in his playing. Here we turn to his fellow Brazilian, the master of neo-soul fusion.
1 min |
December 2024
The London Standard
Mabel 'You Can Make the Most Incredible Song and People Will Still Just be Talking About your Tits' - As a best British female Brit award winner and recent inductee into the rarified Spotify Billions Club for 2019 single Don't Call Me Up, stepping back into the limelight should have been smooth sailing for Mabel McVey.
As a best British female Brit award winner and recent inductee into the rarified Spotify Billions Club for 2019 single Don't Call Me Up, stepping back into the limelight should have been smooth sailing for Mabel McVey. But when the mononymously known pop star teased her return on Instagram in March, the message was filled with heavy allusions to the difficulties of what had come before.
6 min |
October 10, 2024
Classic Rock
"WE'RE STEPPING BACK FROM THE SOAP OPERA"
The Quireboys are now The Black Eyed Sons.
3 min |
November 2024
Classic Rock
Iron Maiden Reach The Big Five-O
Band to celebrate with biggest ever UK headliner, and world tour in 2025/26.
2 min |
November 2024
Classic Rock
ALL ABOUT BEING LOUD
In an exclusive extract from his Fast Eddie biography Make My Day, long-time Motörhead associate Kris Needs looks back at the making of their game-changing Overkill album and the subsequent killing-it UK tour.
10+ min |
November 2024
Classic Rock
BILL WYMAN
WW2 evacuee, RAF airman, Rolling Stone, hit solo artist, bandleader, author, restaurateur, archaeologist, cricketer... Even just his time in The Greatest Rock'N'Roll Band In The World is storied, but there's been much, much more to his life than that.
10+ min |
November 2024
Classic Rock
ROGUE TRADER
Recording almost everything on his latest album himself and putting it out on his own label, Tuk Smith followed the adage that if you want something doing properly, do it yourself.
4 min |
November 2024
Classic Rock
THE KILLING FLOOR
Now revered as a linchpin moment in the history of the blues, Howlin' Wolf's London sessions in 1970, with a superstar cast that included some of England's rock royalty, came out of a chance encounter several months earlier at a gig in San Francisco.
10+ min |
November 2024
Classic Rock
GOTTA KEEP MOVIN'
In 1968 the MC5's Kick Out The Jams album was a grenade thrown into the music scene. In the decades since, Wayne Kramer acted as guardian of the band's legacy until he died earlier this year, after making one final album.
9 min |
November 2024
Classic Rock
Dream Theater
With friends (and bandmates) reunited for the band's 40th anniversary, it'll be a special night for fans at Wembley Arena.
3 min |
November 2024
Guitarist
JOE PERRY
For five decades, his raw, instinctive guitar lines have helped Aerosmith become the kind of rock act whose songs an entire generation can sing.
7 min |
November 2024
Guitarist
Pure Filth
This all-analogue preamp pedal based on Blues Saraceno's amp is a flexible powerhouse with a variety of roles.
2 min |
November 2024
Guitarist
BERT JANSCH'S FYLDE ACOUSTIC
Gordon Giltrap tells how an instrument made for folk legend Bert Jansch in the early 70s now takes pride of place in his own collection
7 min |
November 2024
Guitarist
All Grown Up
PRS might well be 40 years old in 2025, but the SE guitars seem to be catching up with a 25th anniversary celebration planned for 2026. Where does the time go?
5 min |
November 2024
Guitarist
STILL CRAZY
One of the most creative yet reliably great-sounding effects makers out there, Crazy Tube Circuits grew out of a fetish for old valve amps. We meet founder Christos Ntaifotis to find out more
8 min |