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November 2020

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November 30
- Beabadoobee: “I think what really helped me was the tunings I find, and the alternate tunings we play in”
- Steve Brown: “The sound is a combination of all the bands we’ve ever been in, and all bands we grew up loving“
November 29
- Kurt Vile - Speed, Sound, Lonely KV EP review
November 27
- Steve Howe takes you through new album Love Is track by track
- Kathleen Edwards: “When I got my ES-330, I realized I was a much better guitar player than I gave myself credit for“
November 26
- Hatebreed: “People will definitely be surprised when they hear some of the songs on this album”
- Black Stone Cherry: “You never want two guitarists who are competing with each other. That’s a cocktail for failure”
- DevilDriver's Neal Tiemann and Mike Spreitzer on taking the road less shreddy: ”It’s cooler if we play something hard”
- Ian MacKaye: ”I probably should have been a horn player. I always hear horns, melodic lines, and try them with guitar”
November 25
- Blake Scott - Niscitam album review
- Joe Bonamassa: “It’s not like I have these big songs that I need to change for radio. If I want prog time in Nerdville, let’s go!“
- Tony Visconti recounts the making of David Bowie's The Man Who Sold the World
November 24
- iDKHow: “I have a tendency to throw everything and the kitchen sink at a recording”
- Brad Paisley: “I’ve always said that country is jazz on the bridge pickup!”
- Orianthi: “Michael Jackson taught me to do what’s best for the song. It’s not about crowding it with guitars“
- Songhoy Blues' Garba Touré: “I want to have my own way on the guitar, so people say, ‘That’s Garba playing’”
November 23
- Wax Chattels - Clot album review
- Adrian Smith talks fishy tour stories, from falling in front of 20,000 people to being recognized while angling
- John Petrucci: “If some of it sounds like pop-punk, who cares? This is instrumental guitar music – you can do what you want!“
- Stone Gossard and Mason Jennings on how breaking their guitar and songwriting habits led to Painted Shield’s electric debut
November 22
- Spotlight: David Potter of Stand Atlantic
November 20
- The genius of Eddie Van Halen in 10 stages
- What you need to know about Gibson 'Dreadnought' Jumbos
November 19
- Tired Lion: "I write music because it helps me to get through things, so the fact that this is all 100 percent me is terrifying"
- Review: Martin's new DJr-10E Dreadnought Junior is the perfect acoustic for just about anyone
- Jeff Ament: “Stone was always writing from a Zeppelin angle, so seeing if fretless bass could work in that realm was exciting“
- Onslaught's Nige Rockett: ”I was consumed with right-hand speed… I was always more interested in the rhythmic side of things”
- Kingswood's Alex Laska shares his five favourite guitar moments from the making of Reveries
November 18
- Something For Kate: "If I’m listening to a record that came out in 2020, I want to listen to a record that sounds like 2020!"
- The future sound of Fender: Black Pumas, Yola, Girl In Red, Ashley McBryde and IDLES on gear, tone and songwriting
- What you need to know about wireless systems for guitar and bass
November 17
- Josh Teskey and Ash Grunwald: "It’s the kind of stuff you’ll put on and it’ll instantly transport you to a time and place you wish you could go back to"
- Partner: “Our genre is post-classic rock – we keep the riffs and forget the rest!”
- A history of Guitar World: the good, the bad and the ridiculous
November 16
- Este Haim: “It’s funkier to concentrate on the notes you’re not playing, rather than the notes that you are”
- 25 years of the Z.Vex Fuzz Factory: how the iconic fuzz pedal was conceived during a single, feverish night in the '90s
- Daron Malakian on how System of a Down ended up recording their first new music in 15 years – and what the future holds for the alt-metal icons
November 15
- Ben Harper - Winter Is For Lovers album review
November 13
- Dave Martone tells the story behind his lead role on Nickelback's surprise shred-heavy cover of The Devil Went Down to Georgia
- Classic gear: Gibson Trini Lopez Standard
November 12
- Cry Club: “We want to be making stuff that connects with other people”
- How bass effects pedals have improved over the past 30 years
- Kvelertak: “We weren’t supposed to be a metal band when we started”
November 11
- Spotlight: Hendrik Wipprecht of A. Swayze & The Ghosts
- Dominic Fike: “When Rick Rubin heard the demos, he said it felt like I was speaking through the guitar”
- What makes a great-sounding acoustic guitar?
- Want to squeeze a little more tone from your guitar? Try new wiring
- Brad Cox - My Mind's Projection album review
November 10
- Producer Profile: Alain Johannes
- 45 bass legends share their top tips for bassists
November 9
- Laura Jane Grace - Stay Alive album review
- What makes a good pickup?
- Gretsch Chet Atkins signature models: everything you need to know
- Walter Trout on his best guitar-buying tip, breaking a Les Paul in two, and why he'll always be a single-coil guy
- The secrets behind Eddie Van Halen's guitar tone on Everybody Wants Some!!
November 8
- DevilDriver: “After spending so much time writing music over the last 20 years of my life, I’ve started to have these little epiphanies here and there”
November 6
- Gibson Custom Shop's rarest signature Les Paul Standards: Jimmy Page, Joe Walsh, Don Felder and Billy Gibbons 'Burst replicas examined in-depth
November 5
- Declan McKenna: “Guitars are just planks of wood, but they help us translate the most difficult aspects of life”
- Jasmine Star: “TikTok makes me more creative... I have to get the point across in from 15 seconds to a minute“
- How the coronavirus pandemic inspired Taylor's American Dream acoustic series
November 4
- Laura Jane Grace: “I just kind of shut myself down to everybody and shut off my phone, and then I quit smoking weed and made a record!”
- Mr. Bungle's Trey Spruance and Scott Ian: “We’ve made the best thrash album of 1986 that nobody ever heard!“
- MonoNeon: “Try to transcribe stuff – go out and find things that you can use in your own playing”
- Omar Apollo: “I got obsessed with it as a kid. I’d go to sleep with my guitar, which would be on my bed as much as I was!”
November 3
- Movements: “I really put my heart into the guitar parts for this band, and I hope it comes across that way”
- Happy 400th birthday Bass Player! Legends of the low-end pay tribute
- Why 2020 marks a new golden age for Fender
November 2
- Yours Truly: “This is the best material I’ve ever played, and I couldn’t be more happy with it”
- How bass amps have evolved over the past 30 years
- A guide to Martin acoustic guitar body sizes
- Fontaines D.C.: ”We’re not great musicians but we can play a three-chord song and give it some welly”
November 1
- Sad13: “I’ve always just come from the background of wanting to cram in as many layers in as possible”