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Blur | How to sound like Blur | Modern Life Is Rubbish

Learn how to sound like Blurs guitarist Graham Coxon with some tips and tricks from when they recorded the likes of 'Leisure' and 'Modern Life is Rubbish' ...

Arctic Monkeys | want to sound like | Whatever People Say I Am, That’s What I’m Not

Learn how The Arctic Monkeys guitarists ALex Turner and Jamie Cook get the sounds and what kit was used on the debut album 'Whatever People Say I Am, That’s What I’m Not' ...

Albert Hammond Jr | How to sound like Albert Hammond | GfC guitar technique

Learn how to sound like Albert Hammond Jr. with tips on how to re-create his Fender Stratocaster and Les Paul with P90 sound on such solo hits as GfC with advice from the solo artist and The Strokes' ...

Gm

A three-note voicing of Gm this month, showing that chords don't need to contain loads of notes to be effective. This shape has a nice bare perfect fifth interval between the bottom two notes and a mo ...

G6/F5

As the name implies, we've got a G6 chord on the top three strings over an F5 chord on the bottom three strings. Alternatively, it could be called Fmaj7sus9aug11 which is more immediately informative ...

G

This may be a G, but it's no ordinary G! The combination of open strings and notes high up the fretboard means than this chord contains two pairs of unisons, that is, two pairs of notes of the same pi ...

Fsus9

Fsus9 ...

Em9

Em9 ...

E/Gsharp

E/Gsharp ...

E Octaves

We're returning to classical composer Villa-Lobos again for this peculiar chord from Study No 11. It's called E Octaves since it consists solely of three fretted E's flanked by open E's on bottom and ...

E

Here we've got an octave shape of G#s on strings five and three plus the bottom and top two strings played open. This forms an E chord; it's the opening chord of Radiohead's High And Dry, plus the ope ...

Dm add 9/Eb

This unlikely fella is the opening chord of Mastodon%u2019s Pendulous Skin. It's a Dm add 9 chord on the top four strings, but with an Eb note at the bottom on the fifth string. Resolve the tension by ...

D7#9b5/A

Here's a handful for you. With a double barre from thumb and first finger this might not be an elegant chord to finger, but the harmonic richness in this D7#9b5/A makes it worth the struggle. Resolve ...

D5b9

D5b9 ...

Cadd6add9

Cadd6add9 ...

Cadd2

Cadd2 ...

B9b5

Place the fingers carefully for this one, as this voicing gets a bit congested at the bottom of the fretboard. Play this chord slowly from lowest note to highest note to make the most of the flattened ...

Aadd9/E

Here's a voicing of Aadd9/E with a chiming major second interval between the open B and C# on the third string. Play the chord one note at a time to make the most of this. Resolve this chord by moving ...

Wiring Secrets

Ready your workbench, take the phone off the hook, and prepare to expand your tonal palette. Huw Price is your guide to a brave new world of super-affordable guitar modifications ...

Wired For Sound: The Great PCB Debate

If you use a valve amp, you'll know how much importance is attached to hardwiring. Hi-tech manufacturing is a must when it comes to keeping costs down... but why is it that our ears can hear the diffe ...

Verdiine White Bass Techniques

For 38 years, bass dynamo Verdine White has been the powerhouse player in soul, funk and R&B behemoths Earth, Wind & Fire. Gareth Morgan gives a guided tour of the style of a man who knows when to kee ...

Tommy Emmanuel Guitar Techniques

Wherever fingerpickers gather, one name will often be uttered in a hushed whisper – that of Tommy Emmanuel, the fleet-fingered Aussie who plays guitar as if he stole it. Douglas Noble checks out ...

Ronnie Lane Bass Techniques

More than just a mod dandy, Ronnie Lane cut his teeth on classic pop and R’n’B with Small Faces before getting all rustic and bluesy in the ’70s. Gareth Morgan dissects a very underrate ...

Play Like Slash in 7 Days

Cancel all appointments! In a week’s time, whatever your standard of playing, you’ll have a handle on the chords, scales and licks that make Slash tick. Douglas Noble has the method ...

Oasis Guitar Techniques

Hijacking his brother’s band, Noel Gallagher sat down and wrote a staggering string of hits that became the people’s new folksongs, as near as dammit. Douglas Noble dissects the band’s ...