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EXPLAINED: 4 | Vintage Vibes

Confused by guitar tabs and notation? Use this complete guide to reading music for guitar

Learn to play acoustic and electric guitar in record time with our guide to easy-to-read notation

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Bad Brains? It's MusicRadar's Quiz of the Week #9!

Tenshun! Have you been paying attention to what's been going on in the world of music this week?

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“You created the Toy Story musical world, and we are lucky to get to live in it”: Taylor Swift thanks “the incomparable” Randy Newman as she releases her own Toy Story song, I Knew It, I Knew You

“Writing this song felt like a musical departure and coming home at the same time," she says

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“I can visualise sitting at the lovely black Steinway piano. I was playing on it one day, and this song came to me”: How Paul McCartney created his greatest post-Beatles song

“He did the whole thing, start to finish, every instrument, everything, in a day”

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“It’s boring to know what you’re doing in the studio – once you know what you’re doing, the magic leaves”: Jack Antonoff on why music production "expertise" is overrated

The three-time Producer of the Year winner argues that the less you know, the better

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“I just love them and they inspire me to be weirder and more myself”: Olivia Rodrigo names her current favourite band and says that their divisive 1996 record is “the only album I listen to these days”

“I was so lucky to get to perform with them at Lollapalooza last year,” she adds

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“It took me back to the days of riding my BMX to pick out a VHS”: Meris unveils the Ottobit X, a high-end purveyor of lo-fi guitar sounds inspired by the ‘80s

The Ottobit X is a serious piece of equipment for creating fun sounds that take you back to a less serious time

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“Engineered to be loud, fast, and absolutely zero fun for your neighbours”: Harley Benton unleashes a $185 shred-ready hotrod with a roasted maple neck and dual-humbuckers

Harley Benton's latest drop includes the ST-Modern HH, a right-handed version of the ST-Modern Plus HSS in Dark Purple Sparkle, and a smart retro acoustic electric parlour for lefties

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“The seed of the song came from McCartney. Yes, I ripped him off”: Yacht rock legend Christopher Cross reveals that Ride Like The Wind was inspired by a 1974 Wings song

"I don't think I've ever told Paul that. He's probably gonna say ‘I should have gotten royalties’”

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“I used to think that Reaper was a joke. If I saw someone using it, I would assume they're not serious”: How Reaper is taking over the production world one enthusiastic user at a time

If you’ve never given Reaper much thought, it might be time to look again. The DAW is gaining fans at remarkable speed and it’s all happening by word of mouth

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Scientists finally unravel the mysteries of a pianist’s ‘touch’ after measuring hand and finger movements with "microscopic spatial precision"

Is the humble piano a far more expressive instrument than we previously thought?

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Fender gives the Tone Master Pro a serious firmware update, adding some bona-fide classics from the Big F amp archive – and some high-gain fire from EVH Gear too

Free to existing users, this update includes a bundle of top-tier amps and effects, and there is a bunch of new features

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“I looked at my band, and they were all looking at the floor, so that was the first hint that something was not right": Barry Manilow says that he doesn’t “sound like me” after cancer surgery

Does he know he has a UK tour starting next week?

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Universal Audio takes on Auto-Tune with Topline Vocal Tune – and promises pitch-perfect vocals "from the first take"

Based on the vocal tuner from UA’s Topline Vocal Suite, the new “ultra-low-latency” plugin adds Elastic and Sustain controls and MIDI repitching

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The Gibson Hummingbird is one of the world’s most-loved high-end acoustics – and Epiphone just made a $229 Tribute version

These beginner-friendly versions of one of the world's most legendary acoustic guitars are available in Ebony, Antique Natural and Heritage Cherry Sunburst

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“What is it? Do you know the wacky chord?”: Paul McCartney shows you how to play the mystery guitar chord that kickstarted his new album – but he still doesn’t know what it’s called

“These notes are D, C, Eb and B,” he confirms

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“The very guitar Ace played at Kiss’s legendary four night residency at Japan’s Nippon Budokan arena”: Ace Frehley’s iconic ‘Budokan’ Les Paul Custom sells at auction for $512,000

The 1975 Cherry Sunburst Les Paul Custom was the late Kiss guitarists go-to electric in the late '70s and was all over Love Gun

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“There’s only me and Mick and David Bowie and Willie Weeks and Kenney Jones on it – the basic track”: Ronnie Wood on the first Stones song he helped to create – before he was in the band

He also gave a guitar lesson to Keith Moon and Ringo Starr

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“I can't stand Eddie Van Halen's guitar playing. I think he ruined rock guitar all through the '80s and '90s 'cause so many people copied him”: Fighting talk from the Jesus And Mary Chain

William Reid: “Guitar players should never learn scales” – Discuss

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"He will remain for me always as a real symbol of the joy that music has brought to my life. His voice and his talent will be missed": R&B singer Peabo Bryson has died, aged 75

He had suffered a stroke just days previously

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“I had confused the two similar circuits and made a horrible mistake. I made a video. I told everyone”: JHS Pedals unveils the Fumble – an $89 boost pedal with a seriously complicated back story involving John Mayer, Dumble amps and a ‘70s acoustic preamp

The Fumble is a two-knob clean boost with a compact housing and lots of pedalboard uses. It might be easy to use, but how it got here is a little more difficult to explain

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“I wrote this song as soon as I got home from the screening. Sometimes you just know, right?: Taylor Swift reunites with Jack Antonoff and goes back to country for Toy Story 5 song, I Knew It, I Knew You

Can it compete with Randy Newman and Sarah McLachlan's gut-wrenching effort from Toy Story 2, though?

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“Thanks for the geography lesson… I don't know what you have to be so proud of right now": Black Crowes booed at gig in Tampa, Florida

It started when section of crowd started chanting ‘U-S-A!’

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After seeing them in action, I’m convinced that Ableton’s Extensions are going to change how music-makers use Live forever

An "experimental playground" and free JavaScript toolkit released today, Extensions SDK can "expand, reshape and customize" Live Suite with new tools and features

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“In actual fact, it’s pure maths”: Just what are Angine de Poitrine actually doing musically? We dissect their biggest track

When Angine de Poitrine landed on this planet, the polka-dot-clad alien combo fused prog rock with microtonal jazz and funk, to yield music quite unlike anything we’d heard before…

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