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Six guitar legends – six very different approaches
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An octet of bite-sized tips to help you get that perfect final master
Learn to play guitar in 7 different acoustic styles including Delta blues, gypsy jazz, country, medieval, folk and bluegrass
Start playing a new style today with these accessible lessons
Better legato lead playing in 20 minutes with this easy guitar lesson
How to get some liquid legato lines into your guitar solos
Songwriting basics: how to produce an authentic ‘80s-style synth track in your DAW
Composing and programming tricks revealed
Guitar skills: Create slick guitar solos using tapping and bending
Lesson: Supercharge your solos with these advanced ideas
Master the melodic solo techniques of guitar's masters
We profile the melody-laden tricks of Beck, May, Gilmour and more
5 exercises to play like Robert Glasper
Examples of how to play jazz piano like Grammy-winning artist Robert Glasper...
10 non-obvious audio editing tricks to try
We present invaluable – and overlooked – tips and tricks for manipulating audio
Master the seemingly impossible old style of stride piano
Known to push jazz pianists to the edge
The 40 greatest synth sounds of all time, No 17: Kraftwerk - Computer World
Resonant percussion from 1981
Jimi Hendrix guitar lesson: learn clean chords and psychedelic lead
An introduction to the Hendrixian school of Strat playing
How to recreate the Phil Collins '80s gated reverb drum sound
There's no denying the importance of gated reverb on the drum sounds of the '80s. Here's how to do it in the box
Learn Stevie Ray Vaughan blues lead guitar and funk-rock rhythm
A great introduction to SRV-style playing
Eric Clapton: learn two blues guitar licks based on Slowhand's early '70s and '90s eras
Clapton’s minor pentatonic phrasing is an essential part of nearly every lead lick he plays
