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- March 31
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- Paul McCartney: “Somebody whispered to me ‘That’s Nirvana. You’re Kurt.’ I couldn’t believe it”
- Download and stream the audio from Guitar Techniques 347
- Geezer Butler: “Originally it was titled ‘Nib’, which was Bill’s beard and looked like a pen nib because it was pointy”
- Strymon BigSky vs Strymon BlueSky: which reverb is best for your 'board?
- Wes Borland on how he ended up playing guitar like a trombone, why he loves four-string electrics, his “out-of-control” gear habit – and what's next for Limp Bizkit
- How Jeff Beck and Seymour Duncan created humbucker magic with the classic JB pickup
- March 30
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- March 28
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- Imagine Dragons' Wayne Sermon on how his time playing jazz at Berklee formed the foundation of his pop rock approach
- John Primer: “I tried the Cry Baby wah pedal and a phase shifter, but the blues guys said, ‘Hey, you throw that thing in the garbage’”
- Joanne Shaw Taylor on Jeff Beck: “He was my favorite guitar player – he made the guitar a different instrument”
- March 27
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- The Stones Roses, Primal Scream and bass playing: A rare interview with Mani
- Eddie 9V: “One thing I learned from the great blues players – it’s more about what’s in your heart and soul”
- Built to Spill’s Doug Martsch reveals what’s on his pedalboard
- Martin vs Taylor: What's the difference between these two iconic acoustic brands?
- Live Review: Knotfest, Sydney 25/03/23
- March 26
- March 24
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- 10 things you didn’t know about Carol Kaye
- Jeff Beck in his own words: “My Strat is another arm – it’s part of me. It doesn’t feel like a guitar at all… It’s a tool of great inspiration and torture”
- Should Bill Wyman have gotten a songwriting credit for The Rolling Stones (I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction?
- March 23
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- Joe Bonamassa names 10 guitarists who shaped his sound
- How Narrow Head tapped into a shoegazing '90s alt-rock sound with “poppier pop and heavier heavies”
- Kamelot’s Thomas Youngblood discusses the evolution of a bona-fide Florida metal institution and the guitar strategies that challenge his audience
- March 22
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- Guitar neck profiles explained: find your perfect playing partner
- "This is my new favorite Foo Fighters song": Watch Joe Walsh blow Taylor Hawkins away with a one-take solo
- John Fogerty: “I practice ferociously. I’m grateful God allowed me to keep going with my love of guitar. It didn’t end when I was 15, and it didn’t end when I became famous”
- March 21
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- Prashant Aswani explains why his sensational new signature Charvel is “basically a custom shop guitar, made in Mexico for $1,399”
- Dave Mustaine: “I’m a very advanced rhythm guitarist who can play complicated rhythms and sing over the top of them – most people can’t do that”
- Joe Perry remembers Jeff Beck: “I was sitting with Jimmy Page, like two kids elbowing each other every time Jeff would play something!”
- PRS SE DGT vs USA Core DGT: what are the similarities, and how do the builds differ?
- March 20
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- March 17
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- Bruce Kulick names 10 guitarists who shaped his sound
- Daddy Long Legs' Murat Aktürk on his open G anarchy: “I keep all six strings on there, unlike Keith Richards who takes off the low E – I have to work harder”
- Andy Fraser: “It was me trying to impersonate Pete Townshend, who was, to me, the all-time greatest chord king”
- Watch the moment Derek Trucks receives the biggest compliment possible from B.B. King after dazzling him with his slide skills
- The Mu-Tron III: “Without it, there ain’t no Bootsy”
- Isaiah Mitchell: "I played Les Pauls, Teles and Strats with the Black Crowes, but with Earthless, Strats are my number one. They're the most versatile guitars out there"
- March 16
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- March 10
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- Les Claypool: “The Pachyderm bass has one knob on it, a volume knob: I don’t want any tone”
- Yo La Tengo’s Ira Kaplan: "I’ve tried to challenge myself to solo in different ways, rather than just turn the distortion way up on the Rat, step on it, and go"
- Wolfgang Van Halen: “You can feel the history emanating out of the Frankenstein. Picking up that guitar is almost a religious experience”
- March 9
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- Steve Hackett on discovering two-hand tapping: "It's the guitar-playing equivalent of splitting the atom – it influenced more people than I could have possibly imagined"
- Session guitar legend Eddie Martinez shares the studio secrets behind classic records from Run-D.M.C., Mick Jagger, Robert Palmer and David Lee Roth
- Vintage Fender Stratocaster pickups: how they work, what changed, and why their sound is so sought-after
- March 8
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- How Marissa Paternoster made Screaming Females' explosive new album with a $20 Klon clone, Spoon's Telecaster and a fresh perspective on playing
- 5 times Sister Rosetta Tharpe led the way in the development of rock guitar
- Watch Bonnie Raitt leave B.B. King in awe with a series of stunning slide solos at the House of Blues Chicago in 2004
- Carol Kaye played a Fender Precision Bass on most of her classic sessions – but she preferred the Music Man StingRay
- Samba Touré: “I don’t know anything about music theory – everything happens between my head and hands, by feeling”
- How a Victor Wooten bass odyssey provided the unlikely inspiration for one of Lianne La Havas’ biggest hits
- March 7
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- Watch Pedalpocalypse, Season 1
- Django Reinhardt's legacy: 6 guitarists on what makes his guitar playing so important, relevant and vital in the 21st century
- Steve Lukather: “I played Jeff Beck and Eddie Van Halen’s guitars – and I sounded like myself. But some of Jeff’s guitars were set up so strangely only he could play them”
- Bruce Foxton: “We once butchered some Rickenbackers, putting in P-Bass pickups to make it sound like a Precision. But all it did was screw up a lovely guitar”
- March 6
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- Marty Friedman on the challenge of relearning his solos for the recent Megadeth reunion, his guitar legacy, and pushing the studio limits with Jason Becker
- The 25 greatest Lynyrd Skynyrd songs of all time
- Gary Rossington recalls the making of 10 landmark Lynyrd Skynyrd tracks: “The more wild experiences you have the better songs you can write”
- March 4
- March 3
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- “I don’t buy the idea that the bass player is the quiet one”: The 5 most notorious bass guitarists in rock
- The Boneshakers’ Randy Jacobs: “Playing in the studio is cool, but playing in front of people is the magic... To me, that is everything”
- The evolution of the Gibson SJ-200: from 1937 custom order to its coronation as the undisputed “king of flat-tops”
- March 2
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- Why Flea’s bass track had to be fixed in the mix on Alanis Morissette's hit record
- Opeth and Ghost guitarist Fredrik Åkesson reveals what’s on his pedalboard
- The 50 greatest moments in electric guitar history
- In praise of the 1984-85 Mesa/Boogie Mark IIC+, the high-gain boutique amp behind rock and metal’s holy grail tones
- Justin “GuitarSlayer” Lyons on designing a glow-in-the-dark guitar to bring session players into the limelight and the guitar lesson he learned from Machine Gun Kelly
- 5 reasons you're wrong about chorus pedals
- March 1
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- Download and stream the audio from Guitar Techniques 346
- How Doll Spirit Vessel meld dream-pop, grunge and shoegaze into a genre-bending explorative guitar approach
- How impedance affects your guitar tone
- Gear Acquisition Syndrome: is it real, are you suffering from it, and what can be done to help gear addiction?
- Swiss country ace Andrea Benz: “I was already playing the guitar as a hobby, but when I saw Brad Paisley, I said, ‘That’s what I’m going to do’”
