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Authors: - (2023) - IT’S HARD TO THINK of anything more embracing to the worldwide guitar community than licks. We all love them for their immediacy, brevity, and audience appeal. This issue we’ve 40 great licks based in that most fundamental of all harmonic terrains; the world of the Pentatonic scale.
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Authors: - (2023) - FOR MANY guitar fans, Paul Gilbert is the ultimate rock guitarist. He’s got bucketloads of technique and speed, has great vibrato, plays with a rich overdriven tone and is full of creative curiosity. We’ve seen that over several decades from his work with the US rock band, Mr Big and with his own solo career. It’s that curiosity that has also had him involved with tribute albums and tours focused on Jimi Hendrix and The Beatles, and performing a staggering variety of songs spanning the music of Abba and Stevie Wonder, to Genesis and The Spice Girls.
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Authors: - (2023) - BLUES GUITAR MUSIC tends to focus on the electric guitar due to its rhythm and lead duties in a loud band. The trio format as popularised by, among others, The Jimi Hendrix Experience and Cream certainly helped form the foundation for this. But there is a longer serving of blues as enjoyed by the acoustic guitar, ranging from Robert Johnson and Blind Blake in the 20s and 30s, all the way through to the present 20s with musicians like Eric Bibb,
Keb’ Mo’ and multi-stylists like Tommy Emmanuel. Sans amp, the acoustic guitar provides a truth of touch, a raw intimacy that can move audiences like no other format.
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Authors: - (2023) - Where does one start when admiring Led Zeppelin’s guitarist? Riffs? Of course. His have shaped what rock music means all over the world, from BlackDog to Immigrant Song. Lead solos? Defnitely, from dynamic blues phrasing to roaring furries, his range is beyond impressive. Heartbreaker’s middle solo is
just one example. Rhythmic elements? Absolutely, odd time signatures, syncopated darting between the beats andemphatic power statements are rife. For
starters: Kashmir. Acoustic picking? His acoustic chops are as arresting as his electric abilities. Going To California and Tangerine are just two of my favourites.
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Authors: - (2023) - The Shadows released, and a worldwide following that continues to this day. At the centre was Hank with his red Fender Stratocaster complete with whammy bar and a variety of amps and delay devices. An ambient, bridge pickup into clean amp tone is his trademark with which he coaxes melodies, riffs, double-stops, slurs and muted notes. The core to his genius has always been melodic, and the playing approaches that are best to deliver that to audiences.
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Authors: - (2023) - For some, he is the shining light of the British blues scene because of his playing on John Mayall’s Bluesbreakers ‘Beano’ album. His tone and technique right from the arresting opener (All Your Love) reset the electric guitar for British players and countless others around the world. For others, he never bested his time with Cream, the Clapton-Bruce-Baker ‘super group’ (before the term was really in use) that featured Eric’s wonderful solos. One only needs to hear, say, the band’s fnal live album, Goodbye Cream to appreciate his tone, phrasing and how far he could push himself for those long improvisations.
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Authors: - (2023) - DAVID GILMOUR certainly excelled in the early days of Pink Floyd, taking over as he did from the departed Syd Barrett, and putting a strong guitar (and vocal) stamp on the band’s music. While GT loves his later work with the band - The Wall and Division Bell spring to mind - this issue we’re focusing on David’s playing for Pink Floyd’s Dark Side Of The Moon, which it’s hard to believe turns 50 this year, having been released 1st March 1973.
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Authors: - (2023) - Sharing is also prominent with Joe Bonamassa, who has been on a journey of not only pursuing his own musical goals but also highlighting and encouraging others too. We’ve all seen him celebrate guitar icons, as the British Blues Explosion tour and album demonstrated several years ago. His appreciations of Eric Clapton, Jeff Beck and Jimmy Page were spot on!
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Authors: - (2023) - BLUES MUSIC and the Fender Stratocaster have been favourable bedfellows for a long time. It makes sense on many levels as the considerable tonal
choices that the Stratocaster offers are so ideal for the expressive style of blues. It’s for this reason that we decided to have this issue’s prime feature focus on 12 of the best Stratocaster players and how they use Fender’s fnest to sound so stunning. Fine-tuning the list to just these guitarists wasn’t easy, and many great players fell through the net. That said, the dozen that we’re spotlighting are all very well respected for their blues-based music and stunning Stratocaster tones.
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Authors: - (2023) - GUITAR PLAYING doesn’t come more honest, raucous and exciting than the early days of rock and roll. With the world in a post-war fush of 50s optimism, and America’s teenagers fnding their voice, there were certain things that came to epitomise the times. For our purposes, one was the car (freedom, excitement!) and the other was the electric guitar (music!). Made by trailblazing companies such as Fender and Gibson, the amplifed guitar
was a huge entity, as was the sound it made. Grasped in the hands of Buddy Holly, Chuck Berry, Bo Diddley, James Burton, Cliff Gallup and others, America’s guitar developed a sound and a vocabulary
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Authors: - (2023) - ONE OF THE BIGGEST TOPICS we hear from readers of Guitar Techniques is either how to sound like someone, or how to get better. Two very understandable routes to deepen one’s connection with the guitar. We run a lot of the frst topic in every issue - you can almost guarantee we’ve covered one or more of yours during any 12-month period (unless it’s a particularly niche player). We also run aregular improve your... series which is aimed at the lower and upper intermediate musician who has some ability with an approach, but wants to take the next step.
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