Guitar Techniques @GTechniques

Guitar Techniques is put together by the finest team of guitar tutors in the world. Find us in shops plus at magazines direct and pocket mags websites. guitartechniques.com Bath Joined April 2013

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Guitar Techniques @GTechniques

23 hours ago

“I never would have dreamed that I would hear this song performed by two of the guitar gods who inspired it”: Joe Satriani and Slash team up for anthemic riffs and “super-intense” solos on wild rock concept epic trib.al/nheo9O9

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“Blending the best of his blues rock chops with an unmistakable Deep Purple sound”: Deep Purple share their first single with new guitarist Simon McBride trib.al/0AfLbiE

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“There’s nothing wrong with a good honest E, C# minor or B, but sometimes it’s nice to give things a twist”: Make like Joni Mitchell, Steve Hackett and Steve Howe and freshen up your chords with alternative voicings trib.al/HEGNNT9

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“I’m really sorry we didn’t get to work together”: Mark Knopfler and Jeff Beck were planning a collaborative album before Beck died trib.al/i1OEVQL

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Johnny Cash is one of the all-time songwriting greats, but his ‘boom-chick’ acoustic style is worthy of more attention – as is his ‘train on the tracks’ string-muting trick trib.al/nUw0jVi

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2 days ago

“I can’t play without looking at the dots”: Soul guitar icon Steve Cropper explains why he still looks at the fretboard after nearly 70 years of playing – and reveals he’s tapped Brian May and Billy Gibbons for his new album trib.al/hvimsL5

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5 days ago

“I never thought little ol’ 15-year-old me playing metal guitar in my bedroom would amount to this moment”: Social media shredder Kiki Wong announced as new Smashing Pumpkins guitarist after 10,000 applications trib.al/DIUk6tA

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5 days ago

“It was midnight. Quincy Jones said, ‘Ritenour, this is Q. You gotta get down here right now. We gotta fix George's solo’”: Lee Ritenour sets the record straight on fixing George Benson’s Give Me the Night solo trib.al/D3WLOaO

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5 days ago

He recorded with Bob Dylan, toured with Tom Waits and replaced Jimmie Vaughan: Duke Robillard is American blues guitar royalty trib.al/yn3eykE

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6 days ago

“The Pink Floyd legend rolls back the years for a mighty comeback”: David Gilmour shares the lead single from his first solo album in 9 years – and it features one-and-a-half minutes of all-out soloing trib.al/QFY9Cyx

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6 days ago

John Mayer and Kenny Wayne Shepherd are two of the biggest names in modern blues – and boy, do they know how to introduce a guitar solo trib.al/5EgaAVv

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7 days ago

“He was a big driver of the band… I would consider him very underrated, too”: Jason Isbell and Luther Dickinson pay tribute to Dickey Betts with an extended take on In Memory of Elizabeth Reed trib.al/FIAvJUR

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7 days ago

“He said things like, ’Well, why does there have to be a guitar solo there?’… He has a wonderful lack of knowledge or respect for this past of mine”: David Gilmour’s first solo album in 9 years features a new producer tearing up the rulebook trib.al/OtuXb1V

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7 days ago

“Smile and keep going. That’s my message”: Watch the moment Kiko Loureiro’s strap snaps mid-solo – in front of Guthrie Govan trib.al/QzgDHQv

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7 days ago

Gallop guitar is the metal equivalent of riding to war on horseback – and Iron Maiden are masters of the craft trib.al/MrVokgk

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a week ago

“Honoring Jimi Hendrix, the greatest guitar player of all time”: The Experience Hendrix Tour is returning for the first time in 5 years, with a mega lineup including Kenny Wayne Shepherd, Eric Johnson, Samantha Fish and Zakk Wylde trib.al/avMCtJy

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a week ago

“Us guitar players in the West, we all have the same base vocabulary, the same handful of stereotypical licks. But Mdou’s music, it’s almost free of that stuff”: Mdou Moctar finds a new fan in Metallica’s Kirk Hammett trib.al/oruA7YD

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“The first 4 songs are played so often that staff in guitar stores can no longer hear them”: New research reveals the world’s most Googled guitar riffs and chord progressions trib.al/ycpe2iV

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“His style is so specific and refined. It's not something I could just jump into”: Steve Vai explains the hardest part of replicating Robert Fripp’s playing style trib.al/kyK0JYs