Total Guitar

Total Guitar is Europe’s best-selling guitar magazine, crammed full of songs to learn plus backing tracks. From the latest metal and indie hits to classic rock from the likes of Led Zeppelin and AC/DC, TG has more songs than ANY other guitar magazine!. Please note: This digital version of the magazine does not currently include the covermount items or content you would find on printed newsstand copies

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LIVE FROM LOS AGELESS

‘THAT MYSTIC PINK FLOYD SOUND’ • INVESTIGATING THE DAVID GILMOUR-APPROVED DAWNER PRINCE BOONAR...

THE FIRST BOSS GUITAR

GIBSON GO BIG

NEW PICKUPS FROM GUS G

“HEAVY, BANGING LIVE TUNES!” • DON BROCO GUITARIST SI DELANEY ON THE BAND’S “ANGRY” NEW ALBUM – AND THE AMP HE WANTS TO BE BURIED WITH

EPI-TITE FOR DESTRUCTION • Gibson’s leading man unleashes an arsenal of affordable signatures

UP CLOSE

BULLET FOR MY VALENTINE

WHAT YOU WILL LEARN

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SUS CHORDS • Four easy shapes to use for your rhythm workout

GETTING STARTED WITH... 16TH NOTE STRUMMING • Take your rhythm guitar skills beyond the basics with this lesson on 16th-note rhythms

“I WAS THINKING ABOUT ARTISTS I LOOK UP TO - AND PRINCE IS DEFINITELY ONE WHO WAS JUST UNAPOLOGETICALLY HIMSELF” • Her roots are in blues, but Samantha Fish is pushing the boundaries on a new album – with influences ranging from Prince to Fleetwood Mac, and a simpler approach to her songwriting and her gear. As she explains: “It doesn’t always work to have a 10-minute solo in the studio!”

I ll write entire songs and I won’t know what any of the chords are that I’ve used!” • The two guitarists in The Vaccines make an odd couple. Frontman Justin Young still thinks of himself as “a beginner”, while Freddie Cowan is “a proper gear head” whose homemade pedal is the band’s secret weapon. It’s a strange set-up, but it works...

Brian Setzer • HE’S THE ROCKABILLY TWANGER WHO LED THE STRAY CATS TO GLORY IN THE 80S, AND HE’S STILL SEARCHING FOR NEW SOUNDS – WITH INFLUENCES RUNNING DEEP FROM JAZZ TO BOSSA NOVA. BUT WHEN BRIAN SETZER PLUGS IN HE ALWAYS HAS ONE THING ON HIS MIND: “YOU GOTTA HAVE THE RUMBLE!”

TWENTY ROCK LICKS • Breakthrough blues-rock lead guitar to take your playing to the next level

METALLICA BLACK GOLD

“I WAS JUST SITTING THERE WITH MY GUITAR AT THREE O’CLOCK IN THE MORNING, AND THEN THIS RIFF CAME OUT. AND I THOUGHT, ‘WHOAH, THAT WORKS!’” • A flash of inspiration from guitarist Kirk Hammett was the key to the reinvention of Metallica on The Black Album. Now, on the 30th anniversary of its release, he tells the story of the album’s creation

PENTATONIC POWER

DOMINATE WITH PHRYGIAN DOMINANT

THE HETFIELD RIG

“THE NEVER-ENDING QUEST FOR THE HOLY GRAIL OF GUITAR SOUNDS!” • Metallica frontman James Hetfield on guitars, tone, riffs, tuning - and the journey from Lars Ulrich’s bedroom to The Black Album

APOCALYPSE DAWN… THE TOTAL GUITAR METALLICA DEEPFAKE TRACK • How a TG ‘Play like’ track accidentally achieved mythical status amongst Metallica fans the world over...

APOCALYPSE DAWN • TG’s very own Steve Allsworth guides you through a full tab of his unintentional online hit

50 SHADES OF BLACK • Celebrating 30 years of The Black Album, more than 50 artists have contributed to the biggest tribute album ever recorded – The Metallica Blacklist. TG speaks to Cage The Elephant guitarist Nick Bockrath and Gabriela Quintero of Rodrigo y Gabriela about the art of covering a Metallica classic. Plus: St. Vincent does Sad But True – and other key tracks analyzed

“METALLICA IS INGRAINED IN US” • Gabriela Quintero – one half of Rodrigo y Gabriela – on capturing the intensity of a Metallica song and developing her own technique for...