Guitar Techniques #174 February 2010

Guitar Techniques #174 February 2010 Every month we feature full transcriptions of guitar songs and intrumentals in every genre, from blues and rock, to acoustic and jazz. We take pride in providing the most accurate transcriptions around, and cover a full range of styles. The Guitar Techniques tutors' workshops provide some of the best guitar tuition available.
Current regular columns include soloing, jazz and fingerstyle. All the music in the magazine is included on a cover-mounted audio CD, complete with backing tracks to let readers play along. If you want to become a better guitarist, Guitar Techniques is the magazine for you.

On this issue:

40 Essential blues intros and outros
Acoustic Giants - Clapton and Page
Uli Jon Roth - Sails of Charon
30-minute Lickbag - Six more choice licks from BIMM's Scott McGill
Blues - John Wheatcroft on Blues Brother Matt Murphy
Rock - Martin Cooper goes ultra glam rock with Queen's melodic master, Brian May
World Guitar - Jon Bishop goes to Hawaii to investigate the 'slack key' guitar styles of the island
Metal Bootcamp - Martin Goulding continues his in-depth look at advanced sweep picking in rock
Creative Rock - Shaun Baxter shows you how the whole-tone scale can transform your blues
Jazz - Pete Callard looks at myriad ways to solo over the infamous 'rhytm changes'
Fingerpicking basics - This month Jay Stapley looks at the classical technique known as tremolo picking
Acoustic - Stuart Ryan brings us the unique flavour of Celtic reels in this month's lesson
Video Masterclass - Vinnie Moore Pt2