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“If all you want to do is sound like Stevie Ray Vaughan, you’re screwed. There was only one of him and he did it better than anyone else”: What Guthrie Trapp learned while escaping the country player label – and how the fretboard can change your life

The session ace explains what’s wrong with modelers, why anyone emulating SRV is doomed to fail, and how he nearly missed out on jamming with Billy Gibbons

“You’re not hearing the click of the pick as much, and I’m able to float across the strings a lot faster”: Guthrie Trapp shares the picking hack that could help you play faster – and sound better

“You’re not hearing the click of the pick as much, and I’m able to float across the strings a lot faster”: Guthrie Trapp shares the picking hack that could help you play faster – and sound better

The Nashville guitar heavyweight first adopted the approach as a young guitarist after witnessing a mandolin player use it

"I definitely think you can play faster with the shoulder": Guthrie Trapp's guitar pick hack could be a gamechanger for your playing

"I definitely think you can play faster with the shoulder": Guthrie Trapp's guitar pick hack could be a gamechanger for your playing

"When I started doing that I realised that not only does it sound a lot better to me, I think it's a more direct contact from more surface area"

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“There’s nowhere on the planet that these cats would be in the same room together for such a cool low key hang”: Fender just opened a mega new Nashville HQ – and Music City’s finest guitarists were all in attendance

Billy Gibbons, Keith Urban, Brad Paisley, Chris Shiflett, Guthrie Trapp and many more attended the grand opening of the new location – and some sat round for a jam

The elite of Nashville guitar players assemble (and jam) for the opening of Fender's new HQ in the Music City

Brad Paisley, Billy Gibbons, Jack White, Brent Mason, Keith Urban, Guthrie Trapp and Chris Stapleton were all in attendance

"Every time we sit down and play, it sounds like a song:" The contender for instrumental guitar album of the year is arriving on 1 May

Nashville stringers Tom Bukovac and Guthrie Trapp together on record at last – "We kept a lot of first takes"

"Don't buy any more gear today, friends…": Tom Bukovac's tip on how to improve as a guitarist is something all of us can do

The hugely respected Nashville session player is a wise man

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This is the proper way to change your guitar strings, according to Guthrie Trapp

This is the proper way to change your guitar strings, according to Guthrie Trapp

The session ace has been doing it this way on his Telecasters for 30 years and we're not going to argue

Guthrie Trapp shows how small guitar chords can offer big potential

Guthrie Trapp shows how small guitar chords can offer big potential

Open up your playing to Cuban and African styles with three-note triad chords

Is the Nobels ODR-1 the real holy grail overdrive pedal?

Is the Nobels ODR-1 the real holy grail overdrive pedal?

Tom Bukovac, Tim Pierce and Guthrie Trapp love the original '90s versions

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