Prog

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We asked. You voted. In your thousands. Almost 80,000 of you to be precise, by far and away the biggest reader vote this magazine has ever undertaken. So the past month has been a heady whirlwind of names, numbers, quotes, frayed tempers, late nights

Guitar Techniques

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VIDEO & AUDIO https://bit.ly/3vVtyrs Moderate ✪ ✪ ✪ ✪ ✪ Info https://bit.ly/3vVtyrs Key Various Tempo Various Will improve your… ✓Fretboard navigation ✓Scale knowledge ✓Use of effects The guitar is one of the most popular instruments of all time.

Guitar Techniques

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Brought to you by… Rory Gallagher is one of the most important guitarists in blues and rock. He was a catalyst in influencing many great guitarists, including the legendary Brian May. Starting from his humble origins of the city of Cork in Ireland, R

Total Guitar

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he first six shapes are used in the intro, verse and refrain; you can then switch from fingerpicking to a simple strum pattern for a lift during the second half of the song. Perfect when performing solo. Use the regular D shape (instead of D/F#) for

Guitar Player

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CHRIS SHIFLETT’S LONG CAREER path has seen him perform in many bands and genres. After starting out with the punk rock bands No Use for a Name and Me First and the Gimme Gimmes, he landed with arena rockers Foo Fighters and pursued a solo career play

Classic Rock

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We talk to vocalist Corey Glover as the socially aware New York-based exponents of heavy metal, funk, jazz, punk, alt rock and hip-hop undertake a summer circuit of indoor and open-air shows. When Living Colour came together in 1984, would you have t

Guitar Techniques

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Beat English

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Will it ever be possible to explain Taylor Swift‘s ascent from young country singer to this era‘s dominant pop culture icon? To some, her skilful use of social media to shape and command an almost religious fan community are the future of the music i

Guitar Techniques

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BACK IN 1978 I witnessed an amazing concert featuring Colosseum II with a young Gary Moore on guitar. It was called a ‘simulcast’, where BBC TV showed the film footage, and BBC radio broadcast the audio simultaneously - hence the name. At the time I

Australian Guitar

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At age 13, Chris Shiflett made a decision that would forever alter the course of his life. He had been playing soccer for two years, but decided to change his career path to music. As a big-haired heavy metal kid, Shiflett idolised Ozzy Osbourne’s le

Global Voices

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"Jamaica has lost the rhythm and soul of a prolific music icon who has inspired many. Perry was one of the most important creative figures to come out of Jamaica."

NPR

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Korean pop's near-total global ubiquity may be intimidating for the uninitiated, but getting into the music shouldn't be. Our introduction includes tracks by H.O.T., Girls Generation, BTS and more.

Guitar Techniques

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Precise brutality is the mantra for Zakk Wylde; he knows how to make metal guitar sound pulverising, and his picking chops are the engine room for his ninja-like musicality. To hear his early solo career music, away from his day job as Ozzy Osbourne’

Total Guitar

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Better Oblivion Community Center feature the Los Angeles based singer-songwriting partnership of Phoebe Bridgers and Conor Oberst. Dylan Thomas is a single taken from their eponymously titled debut album released in 2019. The song is an intoxicating

Evening Standard

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Over the course of the last decade or so, Ed Sheeran went from a gigging Suffolk teenager with an acoustic guitar and a loop pedal, to someone who’s played in front of the Queen, sold out arenas around the world and, by most measures, become one of t

NPR

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Celebrate NPR Music's 10th anniversary with a highly personal, not-at-all comprehensive list of the songs, albums, trends and moments from the last 10 years that we can't forget.

Guitarist

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Forty Below Records (available now) 10/10 Strat-wielding blues-rocker’s album punches hard For high-energy blues-rock fans, Philip Sayce takes some beating. His Fender Strat’s battered appearance is testament to how strong a player he is with the a

Guitar Techniques

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VIDEO & AUDIO https://bit.ly/426nebY Brought to you by… Few bands have been as iconic and timeless as the great Bon Jovi. Bringing the 1980s era of hair metal to the masses with their radio-friendly anthems, Bon Jovi paved the way for huge choruses,

Goldmine

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The words “musician,” “record collector” and “audiophile” do not necessarily find themselves used in the same article. In the case of my latest story on the history of Mobile Fidelity, they all come together, because I am all three of them. Most mus

Saturday Star

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If you asked the band members of renowned Afrikaans alternative rock band Fokofpolisiekar whether they expected to reach two decades, the answer would be a resounding no. Yet, 20 years later the band are alive and kicking and playing some of the best

Goldmine

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It’s a challenge to come up with a band that defined music the way that the Ramones have, other than The Beatles. There is a whole style of music dedicated to their sound. There have been music festivals where nothing but Ramones cover bands have per

Goldmine

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Retirement hasn’t been able to stick with Tommy Roe, who by his own count has stepped away from the concert spotlight at least five times. What makes the pending return from his February 2018 retirement different from the others is that this time he’

Classic Rock

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WITH THEIR 1991 arrival album Splendor Solis, the Canadian trio laid out their table with a thrilling mix of weighty rock with Led Zep overtones, acoustic interludes, Middle Eastern vibes and Jim Morrisonlike vocals. Having lost their way a little in

Guitar Techniques

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Peter Frampton has had an incredibly successful career as a solo artist, band member and session player. His career began when he was at school with David Bowie and the two would play songs together at lunch breaks. Then at 14 he formed a band that w

Guitarist

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10/10 Imagine combining Motown with Woodstock and enhancing it with large dashes of blues and you get JD Simo, a Chicago-born, Nashville-based singer and guitarist. This is his second solo album and the 10 tracks are corkers: vibrant 70s soul groove

Evening Standard

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Hip-hop, according to Public Enemy frontman Chuck D, “changed the world”. And this month marks a significant milestone for one of the most pivotal scenes in music history, as the genre celebrates its 50th anniversary. To mark the moment, the BBC will

NPR

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We asked and you voted: Here are the 100 best albums of the year, as selected by All Songs Considered listeners.

Classic Rock

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How has the rock landscape changed since 1998? Everything’s changed with the advent of the internet. It’s taken away everything tactile and made it very clinical. Most people just go for the one obvious track on the album. But after a while the obvi

Guitarist

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Soulful return for the first lady of blues rock “On this record, I wanted to stretch,” says Bonnie Raitt of this, her first album for six years. “I always want to find songs that excite me, and what’s different this time is that I’ve tried some style

Guitarist

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8/10 Blues-rock music just wouldn’t be the same without ZZ Top and Billy Gibbons’ guitar and vocals. Five decades is a long time, but this Texan legend is still going strong. Hardware is just what you expect from the bearded-dude-of-cool as his 12 so