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- December 31
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- Watch Billie Eilish and Finneas blow David Letterman’s mind with a lesson in vocal comping in Logic Pro
- 5 Prince deep cut songs for guitarists
- The Midnight: "Synthwave is a really fun sandbox, but it's not the only sandbox that I want to play in"
- Memories of Keith Emerson: "He looked to his Leslie speakers to throw his knives - this guy’s eyes opened wide when he saw the knives fly in his direction. The guy was Jimi Hendrix"
- December 30
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- The minor pentatonic is the essential scale for guitar solos: we'll show you how to get to grips with it today
- Learn 12 guitar chords for beginners to go beyond the basics with
- Arise, Sir Bri: Brian May to be honoured with a knighthood by King Charles III
- Fender Pro Junior IV SE 1x10 combo review
- Eric Gales interview: “I asked Stevie Ray Vaughan for an autograph and he said ‘Only if you sign one for me first!’”
- The best blues, jazz, or soul guitarists in the world right now, according to you
- Your 10 favourite new acoustic guitars of 2022
- December 29
- December 28
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- The 10 best new hardware synths of 2022, as decided by you
- ABBA Voyage: How does it work?
- Songwriting basics: how to write a chord progression to fit a melody - the music theory you need to know
- Taylor Hawkins: listen to five brilliant Foo Fighters isolated drum tracks
- How we made Fastlove with George Michael: “He was the only artist we ever worked with who absolutely refused to have his vocals pitch-corrected”
- 2022's music tech personality of the year, as voted for by you
- Solid State Logic SSL 4K B review
- Issue 317 of Computer Music is on sale now
- December 27
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- The Revolution’s Dr Fink and Bobby Z on playing with Prince: “The music was his only real form of communication"
- "Enjoy it before it destroys your soul" – why Trent Reznor, Joe Bonamassa and Jack White are withdrawing from social media channels
- 5 songs guitarists need to hear by… The Cure
- 2022 online drum personality of the year, according to you
- Audified Linda IronVerb review
- December 26
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- See 78 guitarists and bassists unite with Jared Dines for huge shred collaboration
- Sophie Lloyd releases 'shred version' of Aerosmith's Dream On
- Ryan Adams releases another free album: a cover of Bob Dylan's Blood On The Tracks
- Your 10 favourite new electric guitars of 2022
- Voxengo plugin developer says he’s broken into “some ‘backdoor’ in mathematics itself” that proves that the universe has a ‘creator’
- 7 mistakes guitarists often make and how to avoid them
- 5 tracks producers need to hear by… Phil Collins
- Neil Young says that “nothing is real” when you take the “dark step” into digital music production, as Rick Rubin praises its convenience
- The 10 best online guitar personalities of 2022, as voted for by you
- Elgato Wave DX review
- December 25
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- The 10 best new audio interfaces of 2022, according to you
- Taylor Hawkins Tribute Concert: 10 drum highlights you need to see
- 5 songs producers need to hear by... Trevor Horn
- The Neptunes’ Chad Hugo on synths, songwriting and his greatest productions: “Britney wants to write with us? It’s like I’m daydreaming”
- The best metal drummers in the world right now, according to you
- Cherry Audio GX-80 review
- December 24
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- Learn to play Pretty Noose by Soundgarden on guitar
- 5 classic tracks producers need to hear by… Tears For Fears
- Flea on his relationship with Red Hot Chili Peppers' Chad Smith: “We don't hang out outside of the band. Never have”
- "I don't know how people can perform without them because it really is a game-changer" – Myles Kennedy on using in-ears and how he faces the most underrated challenge in guitar playing
- The 10 best metal guitarists in the world in 2022, according to you
- Faithless lead singer Maxi Jazz dies, aged 65
- GForce Software Oddity3 review
- December 23
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- How to start soloing over a 12-bar blues
- Millenium Drums launches The Rookie - a £160 electronic drum set designed for children
- Drumeo launches second annual “Drummer of The Year Awards” and wants your vote!
- Watch Mike Portnoy play along to The Winery Dogs, Xanadu with drum cam footage
- Boss DS-1W Waza Craft distortion pedal review
- Hollie Kenniff: "It's inspiring to see other women composers writing ambient music, in a genre which has been historically male-driven"
- Ernie Ball Music Man DarkRay 5 review
- Aerosmith's Brad Whitford shows you his droolsome Gibson guitar collection
- Thom Bell, pioneering Philly Soul producer, dies aged 79
- Nosaj Thing & Sunny Levine on the making of their cinematic and collaborative new album, Continua
- 10 tips to help drummers to develop better timing
- 10 of the oddest instruments in electronic music
- 7 easy ways to improve your guitar practice now
- December 22
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- Top session guitarist Tom Bukovac shows you the best way to play an F chord
- Guitar YouTuber shares the wah pedal trick he learned from Chris Buck
- The 20 best Christmas songs ever
- Computer Music 317 February 2023: free downloads
- Why did JHS Effects covertly use a Kemper for its videos in 2022?
- Our 11 favourite effects pedals of 2022
- Riffusion is a free web app that uses AI to create music from your text prompts
- Donner’s innovative STARRYKEY is a compact keyboard with full-sized range
- We discovered a 10GB goldmine of free electronic music samples
- Maestro Electronics Originals Collection 2 review
- December 21
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- Can Adobe’s free online tool make your low-quality spoken word recordings sound like they were made in a pro studio?
- Learn 4 Lindsey Buckingham chords from classic Fleetwood Mac songs
- Put some spring in your seasonal step with HorNET’s free reverb plugin
- Sound Force’s SFC-8 MIDI controller might make you believe that you own a real Jupiter-8
- Bag yourself a free Riff audio interface when you purchase Positive Grid’s Omnyss or BIAS FX 2
- Erica Synths' beastly SYNTRX II reinvents the EMS Synthi for the 21st-century producer
- John Mayer's naked guitar playing 6 other things we learned from his interview with Alex Cooper
- Butch Vig on Cobain and the making of Teen Spirit: "As much as he admired Lennon's aesthetic, he really admired McCartney's melodic sensibility"
- Audiomodern Loopmix review
- December 20
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- Zeal & Ardor’s Manuel Gagneux and Tiziano Volante on hijacking Fractals, super-dumb riffs and being voted MusicRadar’s Best Metal Guitarists 2022
- Arturia’s free Filter MS-20 plugin could be the end-of-year treat you’ve been waiting for
- Watch Tool’s Adam Jones demo his talk box technique in clinic playthrough of Jambi
- 6 cutting-edge plugins that blew our minds this year
- SampleRadar: 503 free obscure drum machine samples
- Time to ditch the whammy bar but not the vibrato? The RoughGauge Jake Blade might be the answer
- Behringer’s Groove Keys is a keyboard/sequencer with its own polyphonic synth engines
- Quick Tips: How to create individually-processed MIDI vocal chops
- Befaco Pony VCO review
- 8 tips for better guitar practice
- John Mayer goes back to 1985 and takes a deep dive into the Casio PT-1, his first ever keyboard
- Sennheiser XSW IEM Set review
- Martin Duffy, Primal Scream keyboard player, dies aged 55
- BoBeats on his favourite videos, DAWless jams and the life of a synthfluencer
- 5 Christmas songs that producers need to hear
- Terry Hall, The Specials lead singer, has died aged 63
- The 8 best new drum machines or samplers of 2022, according to your votes
- December 19
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- If all you wanted for Christmas was VST3 plugin support in Reason 12.5, your wish just came true
- Coca-Cola says that sampling is similar to recycling, and it’s working with Mark Ronson and Madlib and giving you free samples to prove its point
- Kfir Ochaion records a stunning acoustic instrumental version of Brothers In Arms
- Billy Corgan explains why his approach to playing guitar solos was different to his grunge contemporaries, recalls his two reactions to hearing Nirvana's Nevermind
- Yes, this is really is a piece of pro audio gear with a built-in cigarette storage compartment and 12V lighter
- Saoirse: “When I got Ableton Push, everything changed. I could get stuff down so quickly that I found myself writing a couple of tracks a day”
- Baby Audio’s free Pitch Drift plugin gives you instant VHS tape-style tuning wobble
- St Vincent joins Metallica onstage for Nothing Else Matters performance, band debut new Thin Lizzy and UFO cover versions
- December 16
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- Your favourite new Eurorack gear of 2022
- "Sting didn't write no film score": drum legend Stewart Copeland on his Police Deranged for Orchestra tour
- Roland Fantom-0 Series review
- Issue 391 of Future Music is out now
- MuseScore 4 breaks ground with industry-first playback technology and interface
- Dimebag Darrell and the brilliance of Pantera's This Love
- Best online guitar lessons 2024: Improve your playing with Fender Play, Guitar Tricks, JustinGuitar and more
- Zoom unveils its two new G2 Four and G2X Four multi-effects pedals with an innovative IR feature – and another practical one players will appreciate
- Classic Interview: Billy Gibbons - “BB King strummed my guitar and said, ‘Why you working so hard?’”
- See Bernth Brodträger set off fireworks from his acoustic guitar
- GoranGrooves’ mix-ready drum plugins could be what your productions are missing
- December 15
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- The 7 best new MIDI controllers and sequencers of 2022, as voted for by you
- Multi-instrumentalist Jeb Hardwick records a metal guitar, bass and drums version of the Home Alone soundtrack
- AmpliTube TONEX app for iPhone and iPad offers up to 30 free tone models
- Your favourite new drum kits of 2022
- Best acoustic guitar strings 2024: Find your favourite acoustic strings
- Guitar song lesson: learn to play The Raconteurs' Steady As She Goes
- December 14
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- Novation’s Circuit Rhythm sampling groovebox has levelled up in version 2
- The perfect pro audio festive gifts for musicians from Sennheiser
- UK Charity Nordoff Robbins and Gibson team up with the band Monster Truck to give a young fan an unforgettable surprise
- Røde RødeCaster Pro II review
- See who Zakk Wylde had as a special guest to operate his Whammy pedal during Pantera's Becoming
- MusicRadar's tech gear of the year awards 2022
- Casio CDP-S360 digital piano review
- The best session or solo drummers in the world right now, according to you
- See an exclusive clip from a new documentary on one of the world's top guitar luthiers, John Monteleone
- 'Tis the season for epic guitar bargains - bag yourself up to £450 off PRS SE guitars at Andertons
- Sonible takes AI to the limit with its quick and easy dynamics processing plugin
- Angelo Badalamenti, Twin Peaks composer and David Lynch collaborator, dies aged 85
- Roland’s Drum Machine Collection packs 5 classic TR boxes into an ‘80s-tastic plugin bundle
- December 13
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- “Christine started playing something she had written on the piano one day, and it floored me“ – Fleetwood Mac Rumours track-by-track with co-producer Ken Caillat
- Rage Against The Machine bassist Tim Commerford reveals he had surgery for prostate cancer just two months before reunion tour
- Dea Matrona: meet the young Belfast band keeping the fire of Rory Gallagher and Fleetwood Mac burning bright
- Load up on studio staples with all Waves plugins slashed to only $29.99 for the holidays
- The best new studio gear of 2022, according to you
- Arturia’s Pigments 4 plugin promises to explore “every shade of synthesis”
- KHDK and Behemoth’s Nergal announce LCFR: The Second Coming, promising a “more brutal” take on the his signature high-gain overdrive/boost pedal
- An Akai MPC3000 once owned by Jam & Lewis is currently on sale for more than $4,000
- Rex Brown to sit out Pantera’s remaining South American dates after catching Covid
- You can now buy Prince’s modded Telecaster Thinline as it goes up for sale on Reverb for £39,500
- Klevgrand’s audio-powered Tomofon synth plugin is based on its “boldest and most versatile concept so far”
- Plugin week 2023
- Genre Masterclass: How to make a UK garage beat
- Herb Deutsch, co-inventor of the Moog synthesizer, has died, aged 90
- Get creative with your rhythm guitar playing with inspiration from Van Halen, Rush, Soundgarden and Nile Rodgers
- Create a rumbling techno kick in 10 easy steps
- December 12
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- JHS Pedals harvests super-rare transistors for limited run Germanium Boost pedal and it sells out within an hour
- What difference does the gauge of acoustic Elixir® guitar strings make to tone and feel?
- Give your Marshall a low-intervention high-gain mod courtesy of George Lynch and Legendary Tones’ Mr Scary Mod
- The best new plugins and software of 2022, as voted for by you
- James Monteith of Tesseract/Cage Fight on what touring is like post-Brexit: “For all bands things have become more difficult, but the smaller bands are the ones who have been impacted the most”
- Snark unveils the Snark Air – the most discrete clip-on guitar tuner ever?
- Don't miss out - Fender's 12 days of deals ends today!
- Mutable Instruments confirms that it will close for good this month
- Roland celebrates its 50th anniversary with limited edition JC-120 Jazz Chorus, refinishing the ‘King of Clean’ in a cherry wood finish
- Hear Richie Kotzen, Mike Portnoy and Billy Sheehan's comeback song with The Winery Dogs' on Xanadu
- December 9
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- What do you get if you put two Dumble-style drive voicings and a faithful Klon clone in one deluxe dual-channel pedal?
- Watch Jack White talk amps and max out the fuzz as Third Man Hardware and MXR team unveil the Double Down, a compact pedal packing two Micro Amp circuits
- Are middle-eights and bridges dying out? Here are 20 that prove why they shouldn't
- Steve Lukather recalls how Prince gave him the silent treatment and shares memories of being one of the few guitarists to jam with Eddie Van Halen live
- Behringer says that its new Prophet-inspired Pro-800 is “the world’s first analogue 8-voice polysynth that is affordable for everyone”
- Gold Panda: “I’m no Ableton pro. I can get what I want out of it, but I'm probably doing it the wrong way round”
- It’s official: PRS is launching an SE DGT David Grissom signature model in January
- Jackson’s Pro Series Josh Smith SL7 ET Soloist has officially been released and the Northlane guitarist promises “the best value you can get for the specs”
- SampleRadar: 250 free groovy filth samples
- Apple Music Sing is a new karaoke feature that lets you adjust the levels of your favourite songs’ vocals
- Epiphone Noel Gallagher Riviera review
- Yamaha YUS3 SH2 silent upright piano review
- IK Multimedia iLoud Precision 6 review
- Jet Black, drummer for The Stranglers, dies, aged 84
- December 8
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- Your 10 favourite new guitar amp and amp pedals of 2022
- Taylor Swift has used one particular chord progression 21 times, says this pianist
- Excite Audio Lifeline Console review
- The best pop, R&B and funk guitarists of 2022, as voted by you
- Audio Damage Other Desert Cities review
- Happy blooming holidays: Native Instruments’ free Hypha instrument brings you the sounds of nature
- We spent a day playing with Aphex Twin's new "sample-mashing" app, SampleBrain - here's what we thought
- NUX DM-210 electronic drum kit review
- Classic album: The Wiseguys on Executive Suite
- Best Telecasters 2024: 9 of the best Fender Telecasters for every budget
- Korg’s Modwave synth now has native attraction: plugin version is fully compatible with the hardware
- The 3 best new snare drums of 2022, as decided by you
- December 7
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- FL Studio 21 released: new audio clip envelopes, themes and plugins
- Are these Epiphones the best value Les Pauls you can get right now?
- Red Hot Chili Peppers guitarist John Frusciante prepares two albums of Eno-influenced, Elektron-powered ambient synth electronica: "I had done enough with chords, rhythms, notes, defined sections, sharp transitions, etc"
- The 10 best rock guitarists of 2022, as voted by you
- Fender American Vintage II 1951 Telecaster and 1961 Stratocaster review
- Balance the bass: 8 sure-fire fixes to get your low-end properly parked
- Guitar skills: Expand your mind and playing with these ingenious prog chords
- 10 tactics and tips to turn those musical ideas into whole tracks or sections
- The producer's guide to Native Instruments Komplete 14
- Donner’s DED-20 is a roll-up drum pad that fits in your backpack
- "I made my dream synth": Hainbach's new app, Fluss, is an experimental granular playground
- The best new cymbals of 2022, as voted for by you
- Get Keef T-style guitar swagger for less with the new £207 TE-53KR BL Tribute
- "I like to think of it like a Viking ship" – the Label Manager of Marshall Records tells us what it's really like to work for a label that’s very foundation is supporting artists and the music they create
- December 6
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- Best Stratocasters 2024: Our pick of the best Fender Stratocasters
- Epiphone and Adam Jones team up for the limited run Les Paul Custom Art Collection
- How to add width to mono sounds
- Arturia MiniFreak review
- Yamaha b1 acoustic piano review
- Yamaha Arius YDP-S55 review
- The best rock drummers of 2022, according to you
- SampleRadar: 491 free digital vs analogue samples
- Michael Jackson collaborator Bill Wolfer sets the record straight on "Billie Jean" synth sound: "Anyone could have played that part, but I'm proud of the fact that it was my sound design"
- Cherry Audio Sines review
- The Breakdown: Mandidextrous on how to create a pumping hardtek kick/bass sound
- December 5
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- Mick Fleetwood’s wooden balls go under the hammer and raise $128,000
- In celebration of Elton John: enjoy some of his greatest piano performances
- The Breakdown: Mandidextrous on how they produce a heavyweight hybrid of DnB and techno
- Zedd provides some Clarity as he shows you how to remix his 2012 hit in GarageBand for iOS
- BLEASS Megalit review
- This is how the avant-garde ‘Moog dancers’ interpreted the sound of analogue synths back in 1971
- December 4
- December 2
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- Jack White blasts Elon Musk after Kanye Twitter ban: “Perhaps you’re learning how harmful it can be when you let dangerous, hateful people say whatever they want”
- Producer Greg Kurstin on songwriting with Adele: “I have to find the right sequence of chords or the beginning of a song that ignites something in her”
- Noel Gallagher says guitar chords are “completely meaningless” to his songwriting
- Casio PX-S7000HM review
- Solid State Logic says that the SSL 12 is “a new class of audio interface”
- Fender American Acoustasonic Telecaster All-Mahogany review
- Wampler heats up the budget stompbox market with the $99 Triumph Overdrive and Phenom Distortion
- IK Multimedia’s epic Black Friday deal has been extended - save up to 85% off Max versions of Total Studio, AmpliTube, SampleTank, and T-RackS
- Elton John to headline Glastonbury 2023: “It's going to be incredibly emotional"
- Eventide Misha review
- Blur drummer Dave Rowntree: “Some dads and sons would go to the football. We'd sit around the kitchen table with soldering irons, building radios”
- December 1
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- Arturia’s MiniFreak V synth plugin looks and sounds exactly like the hardware, but not everyone will be able to use it
- Celebrate 30 years of Novation with a free pack of classic sounds
- Nembrini Audio kicks off the season of giving by offering you a free wah plugin
- Future Music 395: Samples and downloads
- Trap beats: DOMi plays piano while sitting on the toilet as she and JD Beck perform for Jimmy Fallon
- Fantastic (free) synths and how to use them: Surge XT
