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With a massive 89% discount, $99 for a year's worth of Guitar Tricks online lessons is the best way to upgrade your guitar playing this Black Friday
By Ross Holder published
Guitar Tricks is our number one online tuition platform for guitar players

"I sort of felt like I was squeezing blood from a stone”: Charli XCX reveals her post-Brat creative comedown
By Ben Rogerson published
“I had this feeling that I wouldn’t be able to make music anymore," she says

"It made me cry”: Charli XCX on how she ended up collaborating with the Velvet Underground’s John Cale
By Ben Rogerson last updated
House was released on Monday 10 November

Fine Young Cannibals confirm that She Drives Me Crazy was recorded at Paisley Park using Prince’s gear
By Ben Rogerson published
Its snare sound went on to inspire Taylor Swift and Jack Antonoff on a song from the 1989 album

"OK, let’s have some backstory”: The group songwriting sessions that yielded Lily Allen’s West End Girl
By Ben Rogerson published
“It felt like days I had as a teenager in a band, writing live in the room,” says collaborator Violet Skies

Boy Meets Girl on how having one song rejected led to them writing Whitney Houston’s biggest ‘80s hit
By Ben Rogerson published
They even ended up having a hit of their own with the song that Clive Davis didn’t want Whitney to record

Stuck for ideas? Here's how to create fresh basslines and melodies with Ableton Live 12’s MIDI tools
By Si Truss published
In our latest video tutorial, we explore how to use Live generative MIDI tools and hardware-inspired sequencers to create riffs and patterns

Olivia Dean on writing Man I Need and the Michael Jackson hit that helped to inspire it
By Ben Rogerson published
“I just remember driving to and from the studio and I just played it again and again. And I was like, ‘OK, well if I can listen to this again and again, I think other people might want to”
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