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Articles by: Jonathan Horsley

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The playlist: Coheed And Cambria's Claudio Sanchez

By Jonathan Horsley

The frontman's guitar faves, from Beatles to prog and taking the Tull road

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Phil X’s top 5 tips for guitarists: “Your favourite guitarist already exists. You need to be yourself”

By Jonathan Horsley

Bon Jovi’s effervescent guitar player on how learning covers can transform your playing and why you must learn to play your amp, too

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Tommy Thayer: these are my top 10 KISS songs

By Jonathan Horsley

The Spaceman names his favourite guitar tracks and deep cuts

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Review round-up: affordable eight-string electric guitars

By Jonathan Horsley

Putting four of the best budget extended-ranges from Schecter, LTD, Jackson and SubZero to the test

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Idles: “Most of what you hear is the first or the second take. We always keep mistakes in”

By Jonathan Horsley

The UK punks talk keeping their "urgent, automatic" guitar playing honest and weaponising joy

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Dan Donegan’s top 5 tips for guitarists: “You’ve got to push yourself as a player to branch out and do things that are maybe not theoretically correct”

By Jonathan Horsley

Disturbed’s riffer-in-chief on why working hard and trusting your gut will get the best from your playing

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Halestorm: “You have to be willing to work at something and then draft and redraft, then finish it, and then throw it away”

By Jonathan Horsley

Lzzy Hale and Joe Hottinger on their cathartic album, Vicious

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Coheed And Cambria's Travis Stever: "There are a lot of different guitar sounds on this record… I love the whole world of experimenting"

By Jonathan Horsley

Prog guitarist talks the band's gargantuan new concept album The Unheavenly Creatures

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Review round-up: active-pickup electric guitars

By Jonathan Horsley

Next-level humbucker electrics from Jackson, Schecter, Squier and Fret-King

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Diamond Head's Brian Tatler - my top 5 tips for guitarists: "Listen to the subtleties of players: the vibrato, the tone, good feel. Copy from the greats and mix it all together”

By Jonathan Horsley

With riffs and plenty of them, the Diamond Head guitarist changed the face of metal, and he says they can change your playing, too

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David Pajo’s top 5 tips for guitarists: “You don’t have to know music theory to convey an emotion”

By Jonathan Horsley

Trailblazing Slint and Papa M guitarist on how making your own scales and finding your own sound will change you as a player

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Passenger: “Busking taught me so much, not just about about being a musician or writing songs, actually about growing up and being a human!”

By Jonathan Horsley

Mike Rosenberg talks about the influence of America, being a solo artist and writing pop songs in an era of distraction

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Career in gear: Stone Sour's Christian Martucci shares the guitars he can't live without

By Jonathan Horsley

Custom one-offs, rare limited-editions, plus one irreplaceable Marshall head

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Jackson Soloist SL4X review

By Jonathan Horsley

  • £519
  • €635
  • $599

This prestige shred machine glows red hot in cool blue

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Jason Mraz’s top 5 tips for musicians: "If you can figure out how to lose yourself and entertain someone else at the same time then you’ve found a voice"

By Jonathan Horsley

Singer-songwriter shares advice on writing, performing and honing your sound

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Solar A2.6 Trans Blood Red Matte review

By Jonathan Horsley

  • £615
  • €699

Has Ola Englund forged a new breed in metal guitars?

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Electric guitar review round-up: affordable speed machines

By Jonathan Horsley

Hard-rocking solidbodies from Ibanez, EVH, Kramer and Squier duke it out

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Review round-up: hot-rodded single-cut electric guitars

By Jonathan Horsley

Souped-up models from Jackson, PRS, ESP LTD and Hagstrom

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Orange Goblin's Joe Hoare: "I feel bad for my guitar because I haven’t really looked after it that well and it’s still loyal"

By Jonathan Horsley

The guitarist talks playing thousands of gigs with one SG, honing his tone and The Wolf Bites Back

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Schecter Demon-6 2018 review

By Jonathan Horsley

  • £495
  • €455

A super-charged S-style that’s raisin’ hell

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Dylan Carlson’s top 5 tips for guitarists: “Even with repetition and a good riff, songs should have an arc”

By Jonathan Horsley

Earth's drone-rock legend on going solid-state and why you should never pay more than $600 for a guitar

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Review round-up: rock-ready offset guitars

By Jonathan Horsley

Bespoke 'birds from Epiphone, LTD and Hagström

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Review round-up: P-90-equipped electric guitars

By Jonathan Horsley

Four solidbodies from Guild, Yamaha, G&L and Gordon Smith duke it out

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Chapman ML2 Modern Standard review

By Jonathan Horsley

  • £449

Fat humbucker tone from this classic, single-cut guitar

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Review round-up: versatile solidbody electric guitars

By Jonathan Horsley

Do-it-all electrics from Charvel, Fender, Yamaha and Schecter go to war