Amazing guitar magazine subscription offer – 2 years for the price of 1 year – only 2 days left!

Posted on August 10th, 2011 GuitarSavvy No comments

2 Years Subscription to Guitar Mags for the price of 1?

Would you like a 2 year subscription to Total Guitar Magazine, Guitarist or Guitar Techniques for the price of just 1 year? Well for a now VERY limited time, you can pick up a subscription to one of these or any other in the My Favourite Magazines range. You’d better hurry though – the offer is only valid until Thurdsay 11th August 2011!

You know you want to… access thousands of guitar lessons, tabs, interviews, guitar gear reviews and much much more now by taking out a subscription today.

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Slash’s solo project is coming – pre-order Classic Rock Mag complete with Slash’s new CD here

Posted on February 13th, 2010 GuitarSavvy No comments

The forthcoming album from Velvet Revolver and former GnR guitar player Slash’s solo project is just around the corner, but you can get it first (a whole month before it’s scheduled UK release date!) by pre-ordering the special edition of Classic Rock Presents Slash. The album comes with 2 additional bonus tracks and the magazine itself is dedictaed to the life of the great man. In case you’ve been hiding under a rock somewhere you might not have heard that during the current Velvet Revolver dry-patch, the VR lads have been keeping busy. Duff has been on tour with his side project Duff McKagan’s Loaded, Matt has been drumming with Motorhead and Slash has been working on a solo project involving laying down tracks with numerous singers ranging from appetising collaborations with the likes of Iggy Pop, Dave Grohl (Foo Fighters and Them Crooked Vultures), Ozzy Osbourne, Alice Cooper, Lemmy Kilminster (Motorhead) and Myles Kennedy (Alter Bridge and now Slash’s frontman for the forthcoming Slash tour) to the rather head-scratching collaborations with Fergie and Cypress Hill (having said that here’s a vid of Fergie and Slash playing Sweet Child O’ Mine together. The guys filming this (or the folks standing close by) got rather excited by this collaboration ).

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The track list is here:

1. Ghost (Ian Astbury)
2. Crucify The Dead (Ozzy Osbourne)
3. Beautiful Dangerous (Fergie)
4. Promise (Chris Cornell)
5. By The Sword (Andrew Stockdale)
6. Gotten (Adam Levine)
7. Doctor Alibi (Lemmy Kilminster)
8. Watch This Dave (Grohl/Duff McKagan)
9. I Hold On (Kid Rock)
10. Nothing To Say (M Shadows)
11. Starlight (Myles Kennedy)
12. Saint Is A Sinner Too (Rocco De Luca)
13. We’re All Gonna Die (Iggy Pop)

The Classic Rock Presents ‘Slash’ Fanpack Bonus tracks:
14. Baby Can’t Drive (Alice Cooper/Nicole Scherzinger)
15. Paradise City (Fergie/Cypress Hill)

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Fancy saving 5 quid off a guitar or other mag subscription? Read quickly…

Posted on November 5th, 2009 GuitarSavvy No comments

So what to buy the guitar player who has all the guitar equipment you could shake a capo at for Christmas?  The answer is a subscription to one or more of the following great magazines (Guitarist, Total Guitar Magazine, Guitar Techniques Magazine and Classic Rock) .  You could save an additional £5 off the already heavily discounted magazine face price (up to 40%!) enjoyed by subscribers by using the following voucher code:        5offnov09b * but you need to be quick off the mark as this saving is only available between 6th and 12th November 2009 (applies to credit or debit card purchases only).

* Note there are T&Cs on the My Favourite Magazines website.

Below are other mags that may be of interest or head directly to My Favourite Magazines website for the full range:

• Computer Music
• Computer Music Specials
• Future Music
• Rhythm (tell your drummer friends)
• Metal Hammer
• Hi Fi Choice

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Classic Rock Roll of Honour Awards 2009 on 2nd November – have your say and get voting…

Posted on October 18th, 2009 GuitarSavvy No comments

The fifth Classic Rock Roll of Honour (Classic Rock Magazine) takes place on 2 November 2009 – you can vote for the shortlisted acts/releases in the following categories:

• Best New Band(Diagonal, the Parlor Mob, Chickenfoot, Steadlur, New Device or Crippled Black Phoenix)
• Album Of The Year(Death Magnetic (Metallica), Folklore and Superstition (Black Stone Cherry), Black Ice (AC/DC), Everyday Demons (The Answer), Chinese Democracy (Guns n’Roses), Consolers of the Lonely (Raconteurs), The Ballad of John Henry (Joe Bonamassa), And You Were A Crow (Parlor Mob), Black Clouds and Silver Linings (Dream Theater), The Devil You Know (Heaven and Hell))
• Band Of The Year(AC/DC, Faith No More, Metallica, Iron Maiden, Kings of Leon)
• Reissue of The Year(Pyromania (Def Leppard), No Sleep ‘Til Hammersmith (Motorhead), Eliminator (ZZ Top), ReIssues (Black Sabbath), Picture Book (Kinks), The Who Sell Out (The Who), Ten (Pearl Jam), Stormbringer (Deep Purple), Anthology (The Move))
• DVD/Film of the Year(Anvil! The Story of Anvil (Anvil), Kissology (Kiss), Flight 666 (Iron Maiden), Shine A Light (Rolling Stones), Woodstock The Movie, Archives (Neil Young))
• Event Of The Year (Download Festival, The Resurrection of Anvil, The Return of the Tap, Iron Maiden Get a Brit, AC/DC Take Over the World, Hard Rock Hell II)

Simply go to the Classic Rock Roll of Honour voting pages and cast your votes.

Classic Rock Magazine

is the place to go if you’re a classic rock geek, like myself.  This brilliant monthly magazine brings you more news, reviews, interviews than you can shake a drum stick at.

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Learning guitar from a guitar magazine is cool because…

Posted on August 18th, 2009 GuitarSavvy No comments

1) The guitar magazines that are out there contain clear, concise and well written articles and well thought out guitar lessons;
2) They come jam-packed with loads of accurate guitar tabs and songs/pieces for you to learn, whatever guitar genre you want to play or whoever your guitar influences are;
3) They come with a CD and/or DVD to let you hear what you should be playing, helping to make sense of the tab. Video lessons are also provided in many cases;
4) If a lesson or song is too hard, you can return to it at a later date when you’re more capable of attempting it (provided you keep your magazines and the attached CD/DVD safe*) and
5) They’re written by like-minded individuals to yourself, who love playing guitar, have similar musical tastes (depending on your guitar magazine of choice) to yourself and showcase/review all the mouthwatering guitar gear you would sell your kneecaps to own.

Of the many ways of guitar tuition, magazines are excellent because of the variety, the huge range of guitar lessons and challenging songs to improve your guitar skills for just a few quid each month.  Far cheaper than formal guitar tuition (cheaper still if you take out a subscription).

Head over to our learn to play guitar – guitar mags section to check out some of the top UK guitar mags around.

* – I was just this evening going through all my back issues of Total Guitar Magazine (TGM) to put all of the CD guitar lessons/tracks onto iTunes.  Now I’ve been a subscriber of TGM for quite a few years (since issue 130) and my collection since that time is sadly missing 2 magazines and 4 CDs.  I’m now wishing that I had taken better care of my collection because there was a killer two handed tapping lesson in one of the missing issues that I wanted to have a go at (I plan to see if I can get a hold of back issues).  So if you subscribe to any of these mags, please look after them and file the discs away somewhere safe when you’ve finished with them as you’ll surely want to go back to them one day.  Peace.

A random two handed tapping Youtube vid. This guy is worth checking out.