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February 2023
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- February 28
- February 27
- February 24
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- Watch David Gilmour play the Black Strat with Pink Floyd for the final time
- Tommy Henriksen: "When you play with a Kemper, you hear every little mistake, and that alone forces you to be a better player"
- 50 years ago: The Runaways’ guitarist Lita Ford was invited to replace John Paul Jones in Led Zeppelin
- 20 ways to improve your Telecaster
- How Standards’ Marcos Mena is making shred guitar danceable: “The important thing is writing the hook first, then working in the other techniques”
- February 23
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- Kim Thayil picks Soundgarden’s landmark guitar moments
- Blake Ibanez: “Fugitive has the same attack and tightness that Power Trip has, but there’s a little more room to swing around and play some groovier riffs”
- Hannah Jadagu: “If you look like me, sound like me, you can do it, too. Anybody can, so don’t feel intimidated by the guitar world”
- Michael Amott: “I like Depeche Mode, but I don’t want Arch Enemy to sound anything like them. I love Jimmy Page, but I don’t want to play like him. I’m happy being me”
- Slash once teamed up with the Black Eyed Peas for a Super Bowl halftime show that featured the most divisive Sweet Child O’ Mine performance ever
- February 22
- February 21
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- Inside the long-awaited return of Mercyful Fate: metal guitar’s most unholy band
- Hammock’s Marc Byrd and Andrew Thompson: “People think they can do ambient music if they just have the right pedalboard, and they can’t. It’s an art form in itself”
- The Beatles unplugged: a guide to the Fab Four's acoustic arsenal
- “To be honest, I'm not really a bass player. I've scammed people all this time…” The world of Jean-Jacques Burnel
- February 20
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- Gabrielle Aplin on her love of vintage Martin and Gretsch models, using electrics like synths and why she has a guitar called ‘The Mel Gibson’
- The Murder Capital: "We’re pretty big theory nerds – that thing of people thinking it’s uncool to know music theory is dying now. It’s just so stupid!"
- Kansas' Rich Williams: "Strats are a mystery to me. I’d watch guys like Eric Johnson play a Strat and get such a beautiful sound, yet when I pick it up, it just sounds horrible!"
- February 17
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- Why Steve Vai’s vibrato is unlike any other guitar player’s – and how he came up with his innovative ‘circular’ approach
- Watch Jeff Beck play Locomotive with Guns N' Roses at a 1992 soundcheck for a live collaboration that never happened
- How The Jam's Town Called Malice turned a cheeky Motown steal into a bona fide bass classic
- You’re not ready for these Teles: meet the rarest Fender Telecasters ever built
- February 16
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- Devin Townsend: “When you ask people about their favorite amp, the acceptable responses are always the cork-sniffin’ ones. If it’s an Axe-Fx, people go, ‘That’s sacrilege!’”
- Björn Gelotte: “Gibson asked if I wanted to do a signature. I was flattered but most people who listen to our music won’t pay $4,000 for a guitar. I wanted something affordable“
- Marty Stuart: “I appreciate the Stratocaster, but I really can’t do it justice. It’s two different planets, two different universes – and I’m a Tele guy”
- Single coils vs humbuckers: Which pickup type is right for you?
- February 15
- February 14
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- Why you should consider 10 and 15-inch guitar speakers
- Francis Rossi: “You really need to be a s**t-hot player to make a Telecaster sound good. Particularly when playing lead”
- Acid King's Lori S. talks out-riffing leather-clad shredders, why she's a Les Paul lifer and the art of the perfect stoner solo
- What guitar strings did the Beatles use? Investigating the flatwound vs roundwound debate
- Introducing alternate hybrid picking, a new guitar technique that could change the way you solo
- February 13
- February 10
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- Watch Japanese fusion legend Masayoshi Takanaka shred on an awe-inspiring surfboard guitar
- Metallica’s Robert Trujillo: “Cliff’s approach was, ‘I’m gonna play what I feel, and if you don’t like it, screw you!’”
- This instrumental virtuoso is evolving this tiny, traditional Brazilian guitar – and jamming with Steve Vai provided the inspiration
- Aynsley Lister on why he prefers ’70s Strats to ’60s models, and relying on amp drive rather than pedals
- February 9
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- Black Belt Eagle Scout on how the Ernie Ball Music Man St. Vincent model, Fender Princeton Reverbs and nature all inform her powerful, emotive guitar sound
- Andy Fairweather Low: “I got Fender to make me an Esquire tuned to A... a beast. I tried using that with Eric Clapton and he said, ‘Put that away! Play a proper guitar’”
- February 8
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- Skid Row's Scotti Hill names 10 guitarists who shaped his sound
- How to sell your guitar online: 5 handy tips for selling an instrument on the internet and common scams to avoid
- Mick Box on his greatest gear hits and misses: “It’s not all about price – it’s about feel”
- Live Review: Red Hot Chili Peppers + Post Malone, Sydney 02/02/23
- February 7
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- Weyes Blood on exploring alternate tunings, building experimental guitars and creating a “weird in-between world” of analog and digital
- Ariel Posen: “I have Telecasters that I like with 12s – I like a fight: I’m not a guy that’s ripping up and down the fretboard. I don’t need a fast action”
- Meet the Giannini Craviola, the strikingly framed acoustic guitar beloved by Jimmy Page
- How to replicate the Beatles’ classic tones using today’s affordable guitars, basses and effects pedals
- February 6
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- Jackie Venson: "With humbuckers, you have to be really careful and constantly muting. You have to be nuanced and sensitive. It's like surgery"
- Former Danzig guitarist John Christ talks picking 'til he bled for Rick Rubin, his quest to replace Kirk Hammett and how he relearned to play after a horrific accident
- Walter Trout: "You don't need pedals. If you get a kickass amp, why would you put it through a $100 pedal?"
- How Roland’s JC-120 became the king of solid-state guitar amps
- February 4
- February 3
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- Why Jeff Beck switched from a Les Paul to a Strat
- How the Danelectro/Coral Electric Sitar captivated rock and metal guitarists from Metallica and Steve Howe to Steve Vai and Eddie Van Halen
- The 10 coolest bassline samples ever
- The story of Wings and Paul McCartney's iconic James Bond theme Live and Let Die
- February 2
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- “You can’t arrest me, I’m a rockstar!” The 10 most outrageous moments of Sex Pistols bassist Sid Vicious
- Bob Mould’s pedalboard: what the influential Hüsker Dü and Sugar guitarist sees when he looks down – and why a good compressor is so integral to his rig
- Starcrawler’s Henri Cash on why he plays a three-string guitar: “I’m basically doing a Keith Richards thing without the top strings”
- Zakk Wylde, Scott Ian and Gary Holt on the furious riffs, high-octane gear and lifer philosophies that shaped their careers – and why everyone cheats with downpicking
- February 1
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- Tyler Bryant: “Ever since we did the Rock or Bust tour, whenever we get together to jam, it’s impossible not to want to play like AC/DC”
- Download and stream the audio from Guitar Techniques 345
- Sharon Van Etten: "I loved the Jaguar – it added all these undertones that enhanced the darkness I was trying to express. That definitely changed the way I play guitar"
- How the Beatles crafted the guitar and bass tones that forever changed the sound of rock music
