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- February 28
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- The Specials' Horace Panter: “In the '60s, the clever bloke played lead guitar, his best mate was taught rhythm, and the guy who wanted to play guitar, but wasn’t very good, ended up playing bass!”
- Dave Brock: “I busked in cinema queues and subways. It taught me a lot and gave me plenty of practice performing”
- February 25
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- John Rzeznik reveals the experimental guitar tuning secrets behind Goo Goo Dolls’ classic hits
- Sasami: “Metal may be mostly a white man's genre, but the emotions that go with the sounds of metal guitar are emotions that all humans experience”
- Bill Gould: “I learned to play by writing songs. To me, it’s more about feeling and passion than technical playing”
- The 40 best basslines of all time
- The 10 types of string bending, from blues and boomer bends to tweak and tap bends
- February 24
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- Dry Cleaning’s Tom Dowse: “I play all day and it’s a big part of my life, but I just can’t think of myself as a guitarist!”
- Bernard Butler: “The best thing about a Tele is that when you bash them, they look even better. You don’t say that about the 355!”
- Alex Lifeson on making his Epiphone Les Paul Axcess: “My biggest concern was, can we get Custom Shop quality in a guitar that costs quite a bit less? I think we did it”
- February 23
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- "I love playing the blues, now more than I ever have before": Johnny Winter reveals how he paid tribute to his favorite blues greats on Roots in 2011 GW interview
- How Lemmy Kilmister found his terrifying bass tones: “I just turn it up really loud and hit it really hard!”
- Turnstile’s Brady Ebert and Pat McCrory on why huge guitar groove is front and center of their hardcore punk sound
- 15 times Mark Lanegan conjured dark magic with alternative music's greatest guitarists
- February 22
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- February 17
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- Nilüfer Yanya: “It could be the most amazing guitar in the world, but it only matters how you’re playing it”
- Cesar Gueikian: “Being at the forefront of innovation and evolution has been part of Gibson heritage for almost 128 years”
- Kiefer Sutherland: “The closest Jack Bauer ever would have been to a guitar was smashing it over someone’s head”
- 10 easy guitar songs for beginners
- February 16
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- Logan Mader: “I was super-lucky to play in Machine Head… it was a one-in-a-million chance, like winning the lottery!”
- Online guitar lessons vs face to face: which is right for you?
- How a pummeling Garth Brooks cover helped hard-rocking Oklahomans Fist of Five tackle social stigmas
- Best Fender Play deals: find the biggest savings on our favorite online guitar lesson service
- Alt-J's Joe Newman: "I'll never be a John Mayer. I'm one of those people that just explores the guitar – I'm on that journey now"
- ABBA guitarist Lasse Wellander shares his story of playing for the Swedish pop institution
- Learn the basics of acoustic guitar maintenance
- February 15
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- Charlie Collins: “I wanted to keep the full version of myself intact on ‘Undone’”
- Plush's Bella Perron: "It's important to study styles you wouldn’t normally gravitate to – it can give you a broader outlook on playing"
- Meet Tim Staffell, John Deacon's bass-playing predecessor in Smile, the band that became Queen
- February 14
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- The Black Tones' Eva Walker: “We would start our sets with a heavy blues instrumental. It locks people in, like, 'Oh s**t, that Black girl's actually shredding'”
- Biffy Clyro's Simon Neil: “I swear to God I cannot get rid of the Boss Metal Zone. It’s the one thing that brings the Stratocaster into that real heavy world”
- Matt Pike: “I wanted this album to sound different to my previous work. But everything I play on is going to sound like me, in a weird way, shape or form”
- Download and stream the audio from Total Guitar 355
- February 11
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- 15 cheap guitar mods you can try at home
- Spoon's Britt Daniel: "My playing is all about the right hand. That’s my way of being expressive, by establishing a feel and rhythm"
- Daniel "Chewy" Mongrain: "When I was 17 or 18, I transcribed Jason Becker's entire Perpetual Burn album. I still have the manuscript – it’s about a hundred pages!"
- Tal Wilkenfeld: “Take improvising one step at a time. Don’t think too far ahead, otherwise it’s not genuinely reacting to the moment”
- February 10
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- February 8
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- "A good idea is a good idea no matter when you do it": Eddie Van Halen reveals how Van Halen brought cutting room floor jams back to life for A Different Kind of Truth
- Andy Golledge: “I don’t want to sound like a copy of my influences”
- Joanne Shaw Taylor: “There aren’t any rules of how you play the blues, just as long as you input your own personality and feel”
- Charles Berthoud: “I want my music to appeal to people who don’t know anything about bass. That can be a difficult balancing act”
- February 7
- February 4
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- Gail Ann Dorsey: “It was so much fun to work with David Bowie – he was always open to exploration of his material”
- Wallows: “There's that fine line of ‘I want to know where the guitar can take me’ and ‘I don't know where it can take me’”
- Download and stream the audio from Guitar Techniques 332
- Rolo Tomassi's Chris Cayford: “If something sounds good, don’t worry about how many notes there are or what time signature it’s in. Just keep playing and experimenting”
- February 3
- February 1
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- Jake Webb, aka Methyl Ethel: “I try not to think about what the project has grown to represent”
- Our Lady Peace's Steve Mazur: "The guitar compels people because of its physical nature. It's the closest instrument to the human voice"
- John Taylor: “The energy is my department – it gets laid down by the bass and drums. It’s my job to bring as much energy to that mood as possible”
