Total Guitar

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Total Guitar
ISSN
1355-5049

Total Guitar is a monthly music magazine based in Bath, the United Kingdom, that has been in circulation since 1994.

The magazine is owned by Future plc, who publish many other magazines ranging from drums and video games to technology magazines.[3]

Total Guitar regularly contains

metal
, as well as profiles of guitarists and their specific techniques and playing styles. Total Guitar is aimed at players who would like to learn how to play guitar and people who would like to develop their playing style, with tutorials in acoustic and electric guitar.

Total Guitar also has an gear reviews section that looks at the latest guitar equipment. It also has interviews with guitarists from all genres and levels of playing, and has an in-depth features section.

The Learn To Play section of Total Guitar covers songs from beginner level through to intermediate. The magazine also comes with a free CD in each issue that contains backing tracks and demonstration tracks to accompany the magazine's tablature. The magazine has also featured a DVD edition in two of the issues.

2010's line-up of Guest Lesson columnists so far for Total Guitar include Australian fingerstyle player

of Trivium.

The magazine celebrated its 200th issue in April 2010, with Jimi Hendrix on the cover.

Personnel

The magazine's current[when?] team is:

  • Associate Editor - Stuart Williams
  • Managing Editor - Lucy Rice
  • Features Editor - Rob Laing
  • Music Editor - Chris Bird
  • Staff writer - Matt Parker
  • Art Editor - John Blackshaw
  • Deputy Art Editor - Leanne O'Hara

Notes

  1. ^ "Music Making & Listening". Retrieved 9 February 2012.
  2. ^ McNally, Paul. "Magazine ABCs: Music weeklies suffer as sector falls 12%". Retrieved 9 February 2012.
  3. ^ "Portfolios". Retrieved 9 February 2012.

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