Total guitar magazine – 13 ISSUE 1996-2007 [1996, 2003-2007, PDF]
The magazine is owned by Future Publishing, 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 for (Rock, Metal, Folk, country, Rhythm and Blues and Jazz) 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, 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 Guitar’s novice section.
Ex-Mr. Big Guitarist Paul Gilbert has his own column within the magazine, called School of Shred. There have been guest spots from various other popular guitarists such as Brian Setzer, Joe Trohman of Fall Out Boy, Mick Thompson and Jim Root of Slipknot, John 5, Synyster Gates and Zacky Vengeance of Avenged Sevenfold, Alex Skolnick, Joe Satriani, Wes Borland, Matt Tuck and Michael Padget of BFMV, and Matt Heafy and Corey Beaulieu of Trivium.
The magazine’s current team is:
Editor – Stephen Lawson
Deputy Editor – Claire Davies
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
Total Guitar 1996-03.pdf
Total Guitar 2003-07.pdf
Total Guitar 2004-01.pdf
Total Guitar 2004-11 129 .pdf
Total Guitar 2004-12.pdf
Total Guitar 2005-05.pdf
Total Guitar 2005-07.pdf
Total Guitar 2006-01.pdf
Total Guitar 2006-06.pdf
Total Guitar 2006-Metal Special.pdf
Total Guitar 2007-02.pdf
Total Guitar 2007-03.pdf
Total Guitar 2007-04.pdf
Total guitar magazine – 13 ISSUE 1996-2007 [1996, 2003-2007, PDF]