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Get strumming: The 22 essential beginner, blues and folk guitar chords every guitarist should learn first

Inspiration for every skill level

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"I looked at my bandmates and missed them already and I felt sad to see such joy in Neil’s face when we were down to the last few bars of our last song played together": Alex Lifeson and Geddy Lee recall Rush's final live moments

Prog trio's surviving members look back at the band's 50-year career

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“The next time a musician says to you 'shall we try this a little more allegro?' you will know exactly what they mean”: The quick guide to the theory behind tempo and bpm

"The next time a musician says to you 'shall we try this a little more allegro?' you will know exactly what they mean"

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30 essential acoustic guitar chords, with charts

Massively expand your musical vocabulary and songwriting options with these beautiful acoustic guitar chords

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"It’s a common misconception among the unconverted that the Grateful Dead’s music was characterised by aimless noodling, rather than by deftly deployed fretboard know-how": 5 songs guitarists need to hear by the Grateful Dead

Best of 2024: Newcomers can dig in for a long strange trip here

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“In an age of artifice, media management and manufactured pop stars she’s come through as a breath of fresh air": Inside the making of Adele's seminal second album, 21

“She’s the sharpest, most instinctive artist I’ve ever worked with. She’s pure gut, pure intuition"

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"A corporate turn-off, and not for me like it used to be": Neil Young will not, repeat not, be playing Glastonbury, blaming BBC demands "we were not interested in"

79-year old star has previous with Glastonbury broadcast wrangling

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“People like The Stones, or later on The Kinks. They all really liked us and thought that we had something special": The Liverbirds on life as Britain’s first female rock band

The Liverbirds on life as Britain's first female rock band

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“Have you ever wondered why we find ourselves counting to 4 before we then go back to 1, and start all over again?”: Breaking apart the theory behind beatmaking

If you are involved with commercial music, you’ll be familiar with the term ‘four-to-the-floor’. But why is four suddenly the magic number? We explore the myth of time signatures.

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“If she had, like, 3 more hours in the day, she would just figure out what we do and she wouldn't need any of us”: What Max Martin said to Ryan Tedder about Taylor Swift and music production after they’d both won Grammys for working on her 1989 album

Best of 2024: The OneRepublic frontman was also discussing writing and producing songs with Adele and Beyoncé

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“New Year’s Day set the template for a more direct sonic vision for U2 - and marked the point at which they shifted their gaze towards political issues around the globe”: The making of an ’80s rock classic

It was a defining moment for Bono and the boys

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“If you had suggested this in 2015, you would have been laughed out of the room”: Music is now reportedly bigger than cinema globally

Best of 2024: Former Spotify and PRS Chief Economist Will Page has run the numbers on music copyright, with some surprising results

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“I really didn’t want my song playing while a whole family got whacked!”: Journey singer’s fears about Don’t Stop Believin'

What happened when the rock anthem featured in The Sopranos

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"John was annoyed because I didn’t say that he had written one line of this song, Taxman… I also didn’t say how I wrote two lines to Come Together or three lines to Eleanor Rigby”: George Harrison and the questions around his Beatles credits

Best of 2024: "I think in the balance I would have had more things to be niggled with him about than he would have with me"

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“I had no idea it would become such a classic… I just threw in the lyric ‘It was the summer of 69’ and it stuck’”: How Bryan Adams and his co-writer Jim Vallance created one of the greatest pop-rock guitar anthems of all time

With Summer Of '69, Adams created an evergreen hit that defined the era and became a rite of passage for generations of guitarists

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"When he died, I cried. And I actually jumped into the ocean at San Francisco. And let me tell you, the ocean at San Francisco is cold": Bass legend Jaco Pastorius

We salute a true bass guitar virtuoso

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14 tips for modulating your sounds better

If you are still unsure about the best way to approach modulation and movement, check out our top tips for complete success.

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"He didn't tap a foot or move his head or anything. He listened to it all the way through and I thought he hated it": When an Eagle, Heartbreaker, Roger Linn and an Oberheim OB-X combined forces for a pop masterpiece – the Boys Of Summer story

Best of 2024: Tom Petty rejected Mike Campbell's synth and drum machine demo, Don Henley didn't make that mistake… but the 1984 hit had other obstacles to overcome

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"The perfect tool for textures, beds and drone effects": Fantastic (free) plugins and how to use them – Supermassive

Go large, as we explore the varied capabilities of ValhallaDSP's must-have delay-and-reverb plugin

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"It was a fair fight that I got thrown out of the band for, because Moon came for me with a tambourine": When Roger Daltrey was fired from The Who at the worst possible time in 1965

Best of 2024: "When they got on amphetamines the music just turned to a load of crap," reflected the singer

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"If you were surprised by the 'Top' songs in your Spotify Wrapped, it might be because the difference between your top 5 and top 100 streamed songs is just a tiny number of plays": Get more streams in 2025

"If you were surprised by the 'Top' songs in your Spotify Wrapped, it might be because the difference between your top 5 and top 100 streamed songs is just a tiny number of plays"

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"We need Jungle I’m afraid": 2024 - the year in pop

It's time to take a look back at all the stars, hits, gigs, music and more that have made 2024 such a glittering gem

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"It may have bothered him that people didn’t recognise his guitar virtuosity, which might be why the song devotes so much space to his shredding": A music professor breaks down the theory behind Prince's When Doves Cry

Best of 2024: As Purple Rain celebrates its 40th anniversary, we put one of Prince's best-loved songs under the musical microscope

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“He sings on all our stuff. You hear him on AC/DC, Bryan Adams, Shania’s stuff. He has the best voice in the room”: Phil Collen says Mutt Lange is an ace vocalist who can nail it in one take – and it’s the same with guitar

For Collen, working with Lange is like “going to school for your favourite subject” but recreating the studio magic live on Def Leppard tracks such as Live Bites can be very tricky at first

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“That's when the phone lines all over the world collapsed… The moment came when people fully understood what this was for”: The creation of The Cars’ song Drive and how it soundtracked a humanitarian catastrophe

Best of 2024: “The lyrics don't have to mean anything in an intellectual sense. They're endlessly interpretive. They just have to make an emotional sense”

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