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Total Guitar is a monthly magazine
Magazine

for quarterly in Heraldry see Quartering Magazines, periodicals, glossies or serials are publications, generally published on a regular schedule, containing a variety of Article , generally financed by advertising, by a purchase price, by pre-paid magazine subscription, or all three....
 in the United Kingdom
United Kingdom

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom , the UK or Britain,is a sovereign state located off the northwestern coast of continental Europe....
. The magazine is the best selling guitar
Guitar

The guitar is a musical instrument with ancient roots that is used in a wide variety of musical styles. It typically has six Strings , but Tenor guitar, Seven-string guitar, Eight-string guitar, Ten-string guitar, Eleven-string guitar, Twelve-string guitar, Thirteen-string guitar and doubleneck guitar string guitars also exist....
 magazine in Europe
Europe

Europe is, conventionally, one of the world's seven continents. Comprising the westernmost peninsula of Eurasia, Europe is generally divided from Asia to its east by the water divide of the Ural Mountains, the Ural , the Caspian Sea, and by the Caucasus Mountains to the southeast....
.

The magazine is owned by Future Publishing
Future Publishing

Future plc is an international special-interest media company. Future Publishing is its UK business, jointly based in Bath and London. The brand produces magazines, websites and events in a range of specialist sectors including games, technology, automotive, cycling, films and photography....
, who publish many other magazines ranging from guitars and drums to video games, mountain bikes and health and fitness. The current editor of Total Guitar is Stephen Lawson.

Total Guitar regularly contains tablature
Tablature

Tablature is a form of musical notation, which tells players where to place their fingers on a particular instrument rather than which pitches to play....
 for (Rock
Rock music

Rock music is a loosely defined genre of popular music that entered the mainstream in the mid 1950's. It has its roots in 1940s and 1950s rhythm and blues, country music and other influences....
, Metal, Folk
Folk music

Folk music can have a number of different meanings, including:* Traditional music: The original meaning of the term "folk music" was synonymous with the term "Traditional music", also often including World Music and Roots music; the term "Traditional music" was given its more specific meaning to distinguish it from the other definition...
, country
Country music

Country music is a blend of popular American music forms originally found in the Southern United States and the Appalachian Mountains. It has roots in Traditional music, Celtic music, gospel music, and old-time music and evolved rapidly in the 1920s....
, Rhythm and Blues
Rhythm and blues

Rhythm and blues is the name given to a wide-ranging genre of popular music first created by African Americans in the late 1940s and early 1950s....
 and Jazz
Jazz

Jazz is a primarily American musical art form which originated at the beginning of the 20th century in African American communities in the Southern United States from a confluence of African and European music traditions....
) songs, alongside industry renowned reviews of guitar equipment.






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Total Guitar is a monthly magazine
Magazine

for quarterly in Heraldry see Quartering Magazines, periodicals, glossies or serials are publications, generally published on a regular schedule, containing a variety of Article , generally financed by advertising, by a purchase price, by pre-paid magazine subscription, or all three....
 in the United Kingdom
United Kingdom

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom , the UK or Britain,is a sovereign state located off the northwestern coast of continental Europe....
. The magazine is the best selling guitar
Guitar

The guitar is a musical instrument with ancient roots that is used in a wide variety of musical styles. It typically has six Strings , but Tenor guitar, Seven-string guitar, Eight-string guitar, Ten-string guitar, Eleven-string guitar, Twelve-string guitar, Thirteen-string guitar and doubleneck guitar string guitars also exist....
 magazine in Europe
Europe

Europe is, conventionally, one of the world's seven continents. Comprising the westernmost peninsula of Eurasia, Europe is generally divided from Asia to its east by the water divide of the Ural Mountains, the Ural , the Caspian Sea, and by the Caucasus Mountains to the southeast....
.

The magazine is owned by Future Publishing
Future Publishing

Future plc is an international special-interest media company. Future Publishing is its UK business, jointly based in Bath and London. The brand produces magazines, websites and events in a range of specialist sectors including games, technology, automotive, cycling, films and photography....
, who publish many other magazines ranging from guitars and drums to video games, mountain bikes and health and fitness. The current editor of Total Guitar is Stephen Lawson.

Total Guitar regularly contains tablature
Tablature

Tablature is a form of musical notation, which tells players where to place their fingers on a particular instrument rather than which pitches to play....
 for (Rock
Rock music

Rock music is a loosely defined genre of popular music that entered the mainstream in the mid 1950's. It has its roots in 1940s and 1950s rhythm and blues, country music and other influences....
, Metal, Folk
Folk music

Folk music can have a number of different meanings, including:* Traditional music: The original meaning of the term "folk music" was synonymous with the term "Traditional music", also often including World Music and Roots music; the term "Traditional music" was given its more specific meaning to distinguish it from the other definition...
, country
Country music

Country music is a blend of popular American music forms originally found in the Southern United States and the Appalachian Mountains. It has roots in Traditional music, Celtic music, gospel music, and old-time music and evolved rapidly in the 1920s....
, Rhythm and Blues
Rhythm and blues

Rhythm and blues is the name given to a wide-ranging genre of popular music first created by African Americans in the late 1940s and early 1950s....
 and Jazz
Jazz

Jazz is a primarily American musical art form which originated at the beginning of the 20th century in African American communities in the Southern United States from a confluence of African and European music traditions....
) songs, alongside industry renowned reviews of guitar equipment. The magazine boasts many exclusive interviews with various bands and guitarists, securing the majority of 'UK guitar exclusive' covers and features for many artists in the magazine. The Learn To Play section of the magazine covers everything from basic strum-along tunes to full-blown shred monsters. The Novice section of Total Guitar is the perfect place for beginners to hone their skills and progress on guitar. The magazine also comes with a free CD in each issue that contains backing tracks and demonstration tracks to accompany the magazine's tablature and regularly features Video Lessons for tricky and demanding guitar passages. The magazine has also featured a DVD edition in two of the issues. Although it contains gear reviews, Total Guitar contains fewer articles than its sister magazine Guitarist
Guitarist (magazine)

Guitarist is a monthly magazine published by Future Publishing. It features reviews of newly released equipment, interviews with guitar players, articles on playing technique, and tablature....
, focusing instead on learning material. Total Guitar has the largest amount of tablature in each issue than any other UK and European based guitar mag. It is generally better suited for novice players than magazines such as Guitarist and Guitar Techniques, which tend to focus more on expensive gear and advanced techniques for an experienced guitarist, rather than on the fundamental aspects of guitar playing that are often focused upon in Total Guitars novice section.

Ex-Mr. Big
Mr. Big (band)

Mr. Big is an United States Hard rock supergroup . Formed in 1988, Mr. Big is particularly popular in Japan. Mr. Big are probably best known for their 1991 rock hit, "Green-Tinted Sixties Mind", as well as their 1992 acoustic Billboard Hot 100...
 Guitarist Paul Gilbert
Paul Gilbert

Paul Brandon Gilbert is an United States musician. He is well known for his guitar work with Racer X and Mr. Big , as well as many solo albums....
 has his own column within the magazine, called School of Shred
Shred guitar

Shred guitar or shred refers to lead electric guitar playing that relies heavily on fast passages; the act of playing fast passages on an electric guitar is termed ?shredding?....
. There have been guest spots from various other popular guitarists such as Brian Setzer
Brian Setzer

Brian Setzer is an United States guitarist, singer and songwriter....
, Joe Trohman
Joe Trohman

Joseph Mark Trohman is the lead guitarist of the Chicago-based band Fall Out Boy....
 of Fall Out Boy, Mick Thompson
Mick Thompson

Mickael Gordon Thomson , or known simply as Mick, or by his number #7, is an American musician, best known as being one of the guitarists for Slipknot ....
 and Jim Root
Jim Root

James D. Root , also known as Jim Root or by his number #4, is an American musician known for being one of the guitarists for Slipknot , and the lead guitarist for Stone Sour....
 of Slipknot, John 5, Synyster Gates
Synyster Gates

Brian Elwin Haner, Jr. , better known by his stage name Synyster Gates or simply Syn, is an American musician. He is currently the lead guitarist for heavy metal music band Avenged Sevenfold....
 and Zacky Vengeance
Zacky Vengeance

Zachary James Baker, is better known by his stage name Zacky Vengeance, is the rhythm guitarist and backup vocalist for the American Hard Rock band Avenged Sevenfold....
 of Avenged Sevenfold, Alex Skolnick
Alex Skolnick

Alex Skolnick is an American jazz and metal guitarist. He is a member of the thrash metal band Testament from its formation in San Francisco in 1983 until his departure in 1992....
, Joe Satriani
Joe Satriani

Joseph "Satch" Satriani is an United States multiple nominated Grammy Award multi-instrumentalist, best known as an instrumental rock guitarist....
, Wes Borland
Wes Borland

Wesley Louden Borland is a musician, best known as the guitarist in the band Limp Bizkit. He has been in several other bands, including The Damning Well, Goatslayer, and Big Dumb Face....
, Matt Tuck and Michael Padget of BFMV, and Matt Heafy
Matt Heafy

Matthew Kiichi Heafy also known as Matt Heafy is the lead vocalist and guitarist for the band Trivium . Heafy is also the vocalist for the band Capharnaum , along with Trivium's old producer Jason Suecof....
 and Corey Beaulieu of Trivium.

The magazine's current team is:

Editor - Stephen Lawson

Deputy Editor - Claire Davies

Claire Davies

Claire Davies is the Deputy Editor for Europe's biggest-selling guitar magazine, Total Guitar. Having joined the magazine in the summer of 2004, Claire has interviewed countless guitar heroes for the magazine as well as being instrumental in supporting many new bands....

Music Editor - Chris Bird

News Editor - Nick Cracknell

Production Editor - Lucy Rice

Reviews Editor - Ed Mitchell

Key Account Manager - Martin Hughes

Art Editor - Graham Dalzell

Deputy Art Editor - John Blackshaw



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