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Welcome… The words 'Speed' and 'Lead' on our cover might have brought images of weird blokes with too much body for too little Spandex into your mind. If not, I probably just have. Sorry about t hat. Either way, forget your preconceptions starting… now. Speed affects us all, regardless of our aspirations or musical tastes. We've all heard before that the key to playing faster is to play slowly, for ages, until you're so bored you want to eat your plectrums. It's a bit like the reverse of that film where Keanu Reeves plays a copper moonlighting as a bus driver because he really loves buses, and the bus can't go under 50mph because it's running late. Or something. But instead of an exploding bus, your family want to throttle you with a jack lead for playing the same unmusical lick at 50bpm for hours on-end. This month's cover feature is a buffet, nay banquet of speedbuilding lessons, brought to you by TG's serial bpm-breaker, Charlie Griffiths. We've picked Charlie's brain to come up with interesting ways of building lead speed using a range of classic yet often elusive techniques. Finally, check out this month's competitions where you could win a nifty new Apple Watch (see p20) or some rather brilliant Strymon pedals worth over £950 on p22!
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making this month’s mag: Chris Bird Chris has spent much of his time producing this month's video lesson for our Open-Mic Songbook track – Ed Sheeran's Sing – and putting together the tab for the Killers’ Smile Like You Mean It. Numerous 'Sing Like You Mean It' errors thus ensued. We think we've corrected them all…
Michael Brown Besides his day job manning TG’s gear logistics ship and testing everything that lands on his desk, Michael kept Alain Johannes on the phone for an unprecedented two hours, grilling him on a career that most of us would trade our picking hand to experience – Al spills the beans on p46.
Rob Laing Rob's been preoccupied with Bluetooth possibilities this month, namely Line 6's new AMPLIFi TT, which he gets to grips with on p74. Along with the new BEAM from Blackstar, it's another excuse for us to start playing more guitar in the house. “I'm certainly not complaining!” he says. april 2015
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Army-geddon Jackson breaks cover with the JCS Special Edition Soloist B7DX
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Santan-dard PRS launches cut-price PRS SE Standard Santana models Following the success of 2014’s SE Standards, PRS has announced that two Santana models will join the family: the Santana and Santana Special. Both guitars feature the same all-mahogany construction, but offer a choice of PRS humbuckers or P-90s. The models will each cost £399 and come with a gigbag – see www.prsguitars.com for more.
Vibe matters Electro-Harmonix releases the Good Vibes chorus/vibrato We’re getting Good Vibes from EHX – literally! Based on the original Shin-ei Uni-Vibe, the Good Vibes chorus/vibrato utilises photocells for a warm response, but EHX’s take offers increased definition and headroom, plus true-bypass switching and an expression pedal input. The Good Vibes will be $179 (£115) – check out www.ehx.com for all the details.
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Shape Shifter, Boss RV-5 reverb, ElectroHarmonix #1 Echo, Ibanez Tube Screamer, Marshall Bluesbreaker, DigiTech DropTune and… you get the picture. “I do like my effects,” he states. “But I try to hold back on them, because playing live, it’s much more important for us to be performing and running about onstage rather than staring at my ’board the whole time. So they get used quite selectively. More and more so, especially on the album, it’s been about getting great tones just using the guitar and amp.” After some dark times, it seems – if you’ll excuse our inner Partridge – that the sky’s now the limit for British rock. “Last year was a good year for rock in the UK, and it seems to be making a resurgence,” reckons Joe. “Royal Blood kicked off massively, but then bands like Marmozets and Lonely The Brave as well – they’re all putting decent well-written rock tunes back on the map in the UK. We have a lot to thank those bands for, because without them opening that music back up to a wider audience we might not be getting the opportunities we get now.” For fans of: Tool, Marmozets, Lonely The Brave Hear: Glass Built Castles
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been working on with Gibson, and recorded while playing with supergroup Raiding The Rock Vault in Las Vegas. “We were performing at the Hilton, where Elvis had finished up his career,” explains Doug. “Underneath the stage there was a bar that had been built for Elvis, so during his gig he could go down there and smoke, or have his friends down. When I was looking for a place to record the guitars, I found that bar and cleaned it out. Something about that room had a really unique sound. I can only imagine who’s been in there – Frank Sinatra, Bing Crosby – they were all probably down there!”
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his is a power trio with a difference: melody. Built around former Whitesnake guitarist Doug Aldrich, Night Ranger bassist Jack Blades and the brow-raising vocal talents of Journey drummer Deen Castronovo, their self-titled debut oozes with the latter’s melodic rock roots. “Deen’s the frontman and the driver – he’s like Steven Tyler on drums,” enthuses Doug. “Then Jack Blades is like ‘The Boss’, and he’s one of the greatest melodic bass players out there, which was really fun for me.” The songs were written and produced by melodic rock maestro Alessandro Del Vecchio, with the three members sending in their parts remotely. Doug used his 1979 Marshall JMP and a prototype custom Les Paul he’s
For fans of: Journey, Night Ranger Hear: Turn Back Time
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inland’s Santa Cruz have streamlined glam-metal into a potent, heavy form: expect crushing riffs, wailing vocals and duelling guitars. The only problem is deciding who takes the lead. “We’re always playing rockpaper-scissors!” laughs guitarist Johnny Parkkonen. “That’s how we decide. I used to win a lot, but nowadays I’m getting beaten, so I think I have to train more!” The band formed when Johnny met frontman and fellow shred head Archie Kuosmanen at a music camp in their teens. “I had this Mötley Crüe patch on my back that he liked,” recalls the guitarist. “That’s how it started.” Dodgy shredders are 10 a penny, but Johnny and Archie are some of the finest face melters we’ve had the pleasure of encountering in recent years. The
secret, says Johnny, is going back to the blues. “Listen to BB King,” he tells TG. “You hear so many guitar players who don’t have the balls on the bends – to be like ‘WAAAAH WAH!’. So it gets interesting when you learn to play like that and combine it with shred guitar.” Armed with an Axe-Fx and a ’59 reissue Les Paul, Johnny is currently preparing to hit the UK in support of their new selftitled album. “We have this one song called Vagabonds that I can’t wait to play live,” he enthuses. “There’s, like, a two-minute solo battle.” The rock-paper-scissors obviously went out of the window on that one. For fans of: Mötley Crüe Hear: Wasted And Wounded
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Yorkshire’s darkest and metal’s lone wolves are taking it to extremes on this one… “It could be a bit of a Marmite album,” notes a sage Greg Mackintosh of the Yorkshire metallers’ looming 14th opus. “Sometimes, it’s nice to do albums that are expected, in a way, but for a career like ours it’s important to do certain records and songs where you try something else.” The band’s bravest risks have often reaped creative rewards; whether through their own bleakly ethereal take on death metal with 1991’s, aptly-titled Gothic, or leaving metal to enter a more Depechian Mode in the late 90s with One Second and Host, a strong sense of versatility and the melodic has always lit their dark road. Now, following a glorious run through the heavier realms of metal in recent years, the band’s going full-bore into extremes. “A certain track, like Flesh From Bone, is probably the fastest song we’ve done tempo-wise,” reveals Greg, “while Beneath Broken Earth is quite possibly the slowest.” But we’re not just talking tempos here. “We weren’t shying away from any period,” says Greg of The Plague Within’s writing process. “But it also had to be
cohesive. As it came together, the death metal elements became more prevalent, so the album ended up with more of those elements than we’d first anticipated. But it’s got a good ebb and flow to it.” Producer Jaime Gomez Arellano brought vintage gear and pedal chain suggestions to the table at his London Orgone Studios, but Greg had his own ideas about how to make his and rhythm guitarist Aaron Aedy’s sound
with a pedal by Nine Of Swords called Funeral Party. It’s a really great simple old-school distortion pedal, along the lines of the early Slayer sound. You add a bit of that onto a 5150 and you’ve got a really great classic metal sound. We blended the two to get this unique guitar sound.” The new approaches extended to Greg and Aaron’s dynamic for this record. “We tried to blur the line between the sound of the harmony guitars and the rhythms. We wanted to blend it together more, and we took it section by section. We decided which part our style would suit best. It was an interesting way of working that we hadn’t done before, more constructive.” Whatever fans make of The Plague Within, Greg hopes its tones uphold the band’s reputation for standing alone in the scene. “We deliberately went down a different route, where we want it to sound like no one else in metal. Whether we've achieved that, I have no idea until everyone hears it.”
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distinct from some of the homogenised high-gain tones found on other contemporary metal records. “We set up two completely guitar stack systems and run them through together as one guitar sound,” Greg explains. “So we had one sludgy, retro sound, like an old Sabbath-y sound going into an old Marshall with an Orange cab and an old Boss Hyper Fuzz and the Vox V810 [overdrive] on it. Then we had a [EVH/Peavey] 5150 set up,
The Plague Within will be released through CenturyMedia on 1 June
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