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2021 Digital Issue 11 November
$0.99Premier Guitar November 2021: Dinosaur Jr.’s J Mascis, Hound Dog Taylor, Lindsey Buckingham, Robben Ford, Darkthrone’s Nocturno Culto & Fenriz, José González. Gear reviews: Neural Quad Cortex, PJ bass roundup & more.
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2021 Digital Issue 10 October
$0.99Premier Guitar October 2021: Annual Pedal Issue with 25 stompbox reviews. Interviews: George Porter Jr., AFI’s Jade Puget, Rocco DeLuca & Daniel Lanois, Two Feet’s Bill Dess. Plus Fishman and Eastman reviews.
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2021 Digital Issue 09 September
$0.99Premier Guitar September 2021: Prepare Your Tracks for a Mix Engineer. Interviews: Nancy Wilson, King Gizzard, Cannibal Corpse, Mark O’Connor, Squid. Reviews: Fender, Pigtronix, Gamechanger, Ibanez, PRS, & more.
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2021 Digital Issue 08 August
$0.99Premier Guitar August 2021: Tube-amp basics for beginners, four amp reviews—PRS, Fend-er, Supro, Mesa/Boogie—plus reviews on Godin, Harmony, Line 6, and more. Interviews: Black Midi, Yasmin Williams, Death From Above 1979, and Marty Friedman.
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2021 Digital Issue 07 July
$0.99Premier Guitar July 2021: Interviews with Ani DiFranco, the Black Keys, Emma Ruth Rundle, Pino Palladino & Blake Mills, and Tyler & Shane Fogerty. Reviews: Martin, Guild, Takamine, Radial, Fender, Orange, Squier, Eventide, and Pigtronix.
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2021 Digital Issue 06 June
$0.99Premier Guitar June 2021: IR-box roundup: Mesa/Boogie, Two Notes, Boss, Universal Audio. Interviews: Julian Lage, Harakiri for the Sky, Israel Nash. DIY pedalboard power. Reviews: Dunlop, Epiphone, Jam & more.
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2021 Digital Issue 05 May
$0.99Premier Guitar May 2021: 3 Paranormal Mod Projects That’ll Rock Your DIY World. Interviews: Tash Sultana, Matt Sweeney, Blessed’s Drew Riekman & Reuben Houweling. Reviews: Way Huge, Reverend, Origin, Walrus, Skreddy & more.
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2021 Digital Issue 04 April
$0.99Premier Guitar April 2021: Killer Pedals Under $100, Interviews with Nova Twins’ Amy Love & Georgia South, George Lynch, Lee Ritenour, and Loren Connors. Gear reviews: EHX, EarthQuaker Devices, Dunlop, Carr, Hughes & Kettner, and more.
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2021 Digital Issue 03 March
$0.99Premier Guitar March 2021: Pro Pedalboards from Opeth, Brendan Benson, Butch Walker, Suzanne Santo, Ally Venable, Caspian, Nick Perri & Mt. Joy. Reviews: Fender, Boss, Eventide, Bose, Taylor & EHX.
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The Americana Guitar Book by Stuart Ryan – ebook
$19.99If you don’t know the tradition of Americana Guitar, get ready to pay your dues…
The Americana Guitar book lets you instantly discover the evolving heritage of American music. You’ll master authentic Americana guitar along with 126 audio tracks you can download for free…
Americana is the crossroads where Country, Blues, Folk and Bluegrass collide – a century-old melting pot that is still evolving.
The Americana Guitar Book introduces you to every essential technique that will enhance your musical palette on both acoustic and electric guitar… from Travis and Carter picking, to slide licks and raucous electric guitar work.
This Americana Guitar Book will also help you discover lush new textures, rich chords, open tunings and unique musical voicings.
With Guitar Techniques Magazine’s Stuart Ryan as your expert guide, you’ll learn essential guitar techniques like:
- Bluegrass-style alternating basslines
- Strumming patterns
- The “Carter picking” style of Maybelle Carter
- “Travis picking” developed by Merle Travis
- Simple to advanced fingerpicking approaches
- Accompaniment in the styles of Bob Dylan, Paul Simon and many more
- Creative open tunings
…and much more. In fact, you’ll master a rich tapestry of techniques and songs that will heighten your creativity on guitar.
This unique Americana guitar method is organised chronologically to help you discover the whole history of Americana music…
And each generation of heroes has something new to offer the aspiring Americana guitarist
You’ll discover:
The Pioneers – Elizabeth Cotten, Maybelle Carter, Lester Flatt, Clarence White
The Renegades – artists who changed the sound of Americana, including Hank Williams, Johnny Cash, Bob Dylan, Luther Perkins
The Hitmakers – Paul Simon, Neil Young, Bruce Springsteen, Tom Petty, Emmylou Harris
The Renaissance – a new generation of Americana-influenced artists including Steve Earle, Gillian Welch, John Hiatt, Melissa Etheridge, Lyle Lovett, Peter Buck
Americana Today – the artists who are still evolving the style: Alison Krauss, Lucinda Williams, Wilco, Aimee Mann, Rodney Crowell, Ray LaMontaigne, Chris Stapleton
But that’s not all! You’ll also learn these essential creative songwriting techniques:
- Guitar hooks that dovetail beautifully with vocal parts
- Tight, cohesive rhythms embellished with legato melodies
- Linking chords with scale runs and licks
- Accompaniments with moving basslines
- Chord-melody arrangements
- Using diverse Americana styles to write your own songs
And there’s more…
Award-winning author Stuart Ryan has included four full-length pieces that combine the techniques and styles into beautiful songs.
You’ll move from capturing the “old time” sound of Americana, through intricate fingerpicking, to learning how artists like Steve Earle and Springsteen fused traditional Americana with rock guitar to bring you bang up to date.
With 126 audio tracks you can download for free, The Americana Guitar Book is your ticket to the evolving heritage of American music.
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Slide Guitar Soloing Techniques by Levi Clay – ebook
$19.99Discover the Expressive Art of Modern Slide Guitar Playing
Slide guitar is currently enjoying a huge renaissance thanks to contemporary players like Derek Trucks, Joey Landreth, Brett Garsed, AJ Ghent and Jack White – great innovators who are carrying the flame for the next generation. And our new how to play slide guitar book teaches you how.
Learning how to play slide guitar is one of the few techniques can change your whole approach to the guitar, so much so that it becomes a whole new instrument. In this book, you will master the art and technique of modern electric slide guitar playing.
What You’ll Learn:
- Essential open tunings for slide, & scale shapes for innovative soloing
- Advanced guitar techniques such as playing behind the slide, false harmonics & legato
- Slide guitar licks in style of Duane Allman, Ry Cooder and Johnny Winter
- Modern techniques from Derek Trucks, Dan Auerbach, Joey Landreth and Brett Garsed
- The rarely taught skill of playing slide guitar in standard tuning!
In Slide Guitar Soloing Techniques, virtuoso guitarist Levi Clay teaches you perfect slide guitar technique from its first foundations. You’ll master accurate intonation, string muting and expressive vibrato before learning to expressing yourself musically on slide guitar.
You’ll discover how to play with a full range of expression and emotion while mastering the most useful chords, inversions, and playing positions used by the world’s best players.
As well as learning slide guitar in all the common open tunings, we’ve even included chapters on how to transfer any open tuning lick to standard tuning so you can grab any guitar and instantly make incredible music.
With full-length study pieces and complete slide guitar solos to learn, and with hundreds of licks, tips and techniques of your favourite players Slide Guitar Soloing Techniques is the ultimate guide to the art of modern creative slide guitar.
Here’s What You Get:
- Expressive and authentic modern slide guitar lessons
- Dozens of exercises and slide guitar techniques you can use to make beautiful music instantly
- Tips on choosing the right slide, guitar setup and nailing the perfect amp tone
- Perfectly notated examples with tab and studio-quality audio to download for FREE
Bonus: Learn complete solos and dazzling performance pieces so you always have something meaningful to play for a crowd.
Hear it!
Slide Guitar Soloing Techniques contains over 150 supporting audio examples, so you can hear exactly how each one should sound.
Learn how to play slide guitar, and bring your performance and take skills as a guitarist to the next level – today!
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