Total Guitar issue 240 is on sale in print in the UK and digitally worldwide via Newsstand for iPad, iPhone and iPod Touch, Kindle Fire and Google Play from today!
Digital editions on Apple Newsstand and Kindle Fire now include streaming audio backing tracks for all songs!
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This issue we show you the best ways to unlock your creativity and start writing today with '50 Ways To Write Better Songs'. The feature offers excellent advice on getting inspired, chord progressions and arrangement to help you finish your songs!
Interviews
Gary Clark Jr
Andy James
The Sword
Miles Kane
Portishead
Minus The Bear
Tesseract
Opeth
Guitar Tabs
Iron Maiden 'Run To The Hills
'
Rancid 'Timebomb'
Bon Iver 'Skinny Love'
The Black Keys 'Little Black Submarines'
Hayden Panettiere 'Telescope' (theme from 'Nashville')
Gear reviews
Fret-King Black Label Country Squire Semitone
Boss TE-2 Tera Echo
Hiwatt T40 Combo
Inspired Instruments You Rock Guitar
Yamaha GL1 Guitalele
Head To Head: Metal Singlecuts
DigiTech JamMan Solo XT
Bogner Uberschall Pedal
“A fully playable electro-mechanical synth voice that tracks the pitch of your playing in real time”: Gamechanger Audio unveils the Motor Pedal – a real synth pedal with a “multi-modal gas pedal”
“I don’t think they’re New Order. They don’t sound anything like them”: Peter Hook takes aim at his estranged bandmates
![PRS Archon Classic and Mark Tremonti MT 15 v2: the newly redesigned tube amps offer a host of new features and tones, with the Alter Bridge guitarist's new lunchbox head [right] featuring the Overdrive channel from his MT 100 head, and there's a half-power switch, too.](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/FD37q5pRLCQDhCpT8y94Zi-840-80.jpg.webp)
