Jason Sidwell describes what you’ll learn in this month’s action-packed lessons section.

Welcome to another jam-packed issue of technique, theory and tips to fuel your woodshedding. You’ve already checked out Albert King’s influence on numerous great guitarists (p14), learnt from Winger’s tap-tastic rocker, Reb Beach (p26), gone deep into tasty jazz-blues chords (p40) and tackled the lovely Etude In C Major by Coste. That’s a heck of a lotta variety already!

From here on out, the tutorial turnover ramps up further with articles ranging from one page through to four. We know not everyone has an hour or more every day to play guitar so we’re mindful of providing concise tuition that you can dip into when time allows. You’ll start with a tapping riff from my Rhythm Roost video series (p51), six great licks from Jamie Hunt (p52), two tasty Robben Ford style solos from Phil Short (p54), Nirvana rocking with Martin Cooper (p58) and a look into the shred chops of Nuno Bettencourt with Charlie Griffiths (p60). You might want to take a breather at this point! Then onto a new four-part series with Ulf Wakenius where he adapts Oscar Peterson’s piano style for guitar (p64), Stuart Ryan returns with a video series on Celtic fingerpicking (p68), an appreciation of Bombay Bicycle Club with Simon Barnard (p72) and finally, Pentatonic superimposing in Andy G Jones’ series Them Changes (p76).

How you work through the issue is totally up to you but from many years of GT (since 1994 in fact), I recommend getting some sticky post-it notes, writing down your top five zones - short licks or full pages - and then sticking it on the cover. That way, when you grab the issue, you can go straight to the areas that most interest you with no time wasted skimming through pages. Until the next issue, keep happy, keep listening and keep playing!