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Total Guitar 271 on sale now: Rock Guitar Masterclass

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By Stuart Williams ( Total Guitar ) published 28 August 2015

Queen & The Libertines tabbed, plus Maiden, Dan Auerbach and more!

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Total Guitar 271 on sale now: Rock Guitar Masterclass

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Rock Guitar Masterclass

Rock Guitar Masterclass

This month’s mag is bursting with lessons, interviews and gear reviews. Starting with our Rock Guitar Masterclass, where we show you how to improve your rhythm guitar playing, boost your improvisation skills, increase your lead creativity, and broaden your blues chord knowledge!The tutorials continue with interviews and lessons with Gus G, Andy James and Ron 'Bumblefoot' Thal, complete with tab and video!

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Songs

Songs

TG offers more songs and backing tracks than any other guitar mag out there, and this month os no different. Queen’s classic ‘I Want It All’ is tabbed in full, we celebrate the return of The Libertines by showing you how to play ‘Don’t Look Back Into The Sun’ and you can also learn the riff from Bring Me The Horizon’s ‘Happy Song’, all with studio-quality backing tracks.

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Interviews

Interviews

We sit down with Iron Maiden’s Adrian Smith to talk about the songwriting process for new album ‘The Book Of Souls’, The Black Keys’ Dan Auerbach tells us all about his latest project ‘The Arcs’ and Slayer’s Kerry King and Gary Holt reveal the the story behind new album ‘Repentless’.Also inside: Alex Skolnick, Tony Rombola (Godsmack), Dallas Green (City And Colour) and loads more!

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Gear

Gear

This month’s mag includes exclusive first reviews of Fractal Audio’s FX-8, offering Axe-FX-level effects for less money, Boss' SY-300 guitar synth which works with any electric guitar pickup, TC Electonic’s BodyRez pedal, designed to make your onstage acoustic life easier, and VOX’s new affordable modelling amp, the VXII. We also get our hands on Taylor’s Big Baby-E travel acoustic, Godin’s retro CTP90 and new pedals from Moog and One Conrol.

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Free Stuff!

Free Stuff!

You want gear? We’re giving away a whole band’s worth, with a value of over £14,000! Also included with this month’s mag is a free 16-page guide to playing 7-, and 8-string guitars. We’ve teamed up with Jackson to bring you lessons, interviews and buying advice for getting to grips with extended rang guitars!

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Get Your Copy now!

Get Your Copy now!

Total Guitar is available from all good newsagents, but you can also order a print copy of our latest issuehere.

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Stuart has been working for guitar publications since 2008, beginning his career as Reviews Editor for Total Guitar before becoming Editor for six years. During this time, he and the team brought the magazine into the modern age with digital editions, a Youtube channel and the Apple chart-bothering Total Guitar Podcast. Stuart has also served as a freelance writer for Guitar World, Guitarist and MusicRadar reviewing hundreds of products spanning everything from acoustic guitars to valve amps, modelers and plugins. When not spouting his opinions on the best new gear, Stuart has been reminded on many occasions that the 'never meet your heroes' rule is entirely wrong, clocking-up interviews with the likes of Eddie Van Halen, Foo Fighters, Green Day and many, many more.

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