Guitar Techniques

Take the UK's foremost guitar teachers and players, and transfer their finesse and passion for music into a magazine! The magazine has established itself with guitarists who wish to better themselves as musicians in both the UK, Europe and as far afield as the USA and Hong Kong! When it comes to choosing music, GT's Abba to Zappa policy means that there's always something for everyone! Please note: This digital version of the magazine does not currently include the covermount items or content you would find on printed newsstand copies

Just a few of your regular GT technique experts...

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GT USER GUIDE • You can get more from GT by understanding our easy-to-follow musical terms and signs...

FOOD FOR THOUGHT • Justin Sandercoe of justinguitar.com lends GT his insight as one of the world’s most successful guitar teachers. This month: Song Work.

SESSION SHENANIGANS • The studio guitarist’s guide to happiness and personal fulfilment, as related by session ace Mitch Dalton. This month: Hi-Tek with Low-Tech (1981-2021).

INSTRUMENTAL INQUISITION ! • 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: Snarky Puppy’s guitarist, plus producer and composer, Mark Lettieri.

JAM TRACKS TIPS • Use these to navigate our bonus backing tracks

PHIL HILBORNE’S ONE-MINUTE LICK • Alternate Picked Penatonic Lick

SUBSTITUTE Gypsy Jazz • Django Reinhardt’s dazzling recordings as lead guitarist of the Quintette du Hot Club de France have become the blueprints for a thriving, steadily evolving musical sub-genre. The main focus is, of course, his seemingly impossible lead playing, but his approach to chords – also shaped by the injury to his fretting hand – have also become a major part of the style.

SIXTY SECONDS WITH... • A minute’s all it takes to discover what makes a great guitarist tick. Before he jumped into his limo for the Airport, we grabbed a quick chat with Welsh blues slide guitarist and bandleader, Troy Redfern.

TECHNIQUE FOCUS STRING BENDING

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ALBERT KING Was He The Greatest Ever? • Breaking out the Flying V and using ideas from eight all-time blues legends, Jon Bishop seeks to answer the contentious question, “Was Albert King the greatest electric bluesman of them all?”

TRACK RECORD

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REB BEACH Video Masterclass • Rock legend and two-handed tapping virtuoso Reb Beach presents his guitar trademarks as he takes a melodic shred solo over Jason Sidwell’s uptempo rock track, Flying High.

REB TALKS ABOUT HIS ALBUM • Reb talks to Jason Sidwell about writing, two-hand tapping and gear for his recent instrumental album, A View From The Inside.

TOP 3 LICKS

TECHNIQUE FOCUS LESS IS MORE

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THE CROSSROADS Chord Voicings • This month at the Crossroads, John Wheatcroft finds the chordal connections from modern bluesman Kirk Fletcher, to jazz legends Joe Pass and Wes Montgomery, via the great Robben Ford.

TECHNIQUE FOCUS • Do you practise too fast?

NAPOLÉON COSTE Etude In C Major (op38 no2) • The 19th century guitarist and composer was a leading figure from the ‘Golden Age’ of guitar. Bridget Mermikides arranges and transcribes Coste’s beautiful Etude In C Major.

JASON INTRODUCES...

THE RHYTHM ROOST • Keen on all things rhythmic, Jason Sidwell uses two-handed tapping to perform this issue’s groove riff, Tip Tap!

30-MINUTE LICKBAG • Jamie Hunt of BIMM Bristol brings you another varied selection of licks to learn at easy, intermediate and advanced levels.

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ROBBEN FORD...